Events on Tuesday, February 16
Tuesday 2/16 @ University of Chicago - Classics Building
Few American cartoonists are as critically acclaimed and as widely read as Alison Bechdel. For nearly 30 years, she has drawn...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Lincoln Hall
Daedelus, the alter-ego of Alfred Darlington, brings his Magical Properties tour, and his new label roster, to Chicago. With characteristically cheeky,...
Sweet Home Chicago: Tasty Treats Today!
Tuesday 2/16 @ Chicago History Museum
Chicago's up-and-coming confectioners join us at the Museum for a chat about our city's current candy culture. Local shops that have...
Ongoing Events
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Tuesday 2/16 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Aspen Mays' photographs are among the more colorful, eye-catching works to grace the 12x12 exhibition series, but they're also the product...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Three poetic, stark, and incredibly funny plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, documenting several generations of intertwined African-American families in an abstracted...
Tuesday 2/16 @ The Second City
The Second City has recently mined the public lives of Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, and Rahm Emanuel for creative and box-office...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Tuesday 2/16 @ Music Box Theatre
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Tuesday 2/16 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Tuesday 2/16 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
Everyone may have a certain building etched into memory, whether one that's magnificent or just personally meaningful. Projected inside a large,...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Chicago Cultural Center
It's clear now that the Cultural Center was really waiting for a mammoth, cardboard clipper ship with a broken corkscrew mast...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Chicago Cultural Center
These aren't your grandma's still-life paintings, even if the artist is inspired by memories of his own grandma's house in Puerto...
Tuesday 2/16 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the creative team that brought you Second City's 2009 hit Rod Blagojevich Superstar! comes this loving homage to a bloated,...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Tuesday 2/16 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
After a notable stint at Germany's Bauhaus school, László Moholy-Nagy became one of the great modernists to work in Chicago, where...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Full of black-and-white photographs with unassuming subject-matter, mostly tacked to the walls without frames, 50% Grey is resolutely low-key. That's not...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Very funny and very dark, Stan Chisholm's installation consists of line drawings on paper and foam board and multimedia dioramas that...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Facets Cinémathèque
After a string of soul classics such as "Grandma's Hands" and "Ain't No Sunshine," Bill Withers went a bit Salinger in...
Tuesday 2/16 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Most visitors to Production Site aren't going to come away with a dramatically altered impression of the artist's studio, even in...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 2/16 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Tuesday 2/16 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit kicks off its 2010 season with The Treasure of Ulysses Davis. A Savannah barber, Davis spent his free time carving...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Smart Museum of Art
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris reigned as the city of light and Impressionism captured the bustle of...
Tuesday 2/16 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Newberry Library Seminars Program
Tuesday 2/16 @ The Newberry Library
The Newberry Library Seminars Program provides an ideal setting for learning. Experts in their field teach what they love, and participants...
Tuesday 2/16 @ The Shrine
Getting the week started early, WCGI's own heavy hitter, Timbuck2 hits it hard! Flexing knowlege and the funk. With Special guest...
The Play's the Thing: 400 Years of Shakespeare on Stage
Tuesday 2/16 @ The Newberry Library
People have produced, starred in, and enjoyed the spectacle of Shakespeare’s work on stage for more than four centuries. Explore a...
