Events on Wednesday, February 17
Wednesday 2/17 @ Book Cellar
Live Nude Girl, Kathleen Rooney's stellar 2009 memoir of her supplemental career as an artists' nude model, effortlessly, um, pulled off...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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,...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
The Stephen Daiter Gallery has re-opened at a new location with an exhibition of the tongue-in-cheek British social documentary photographer, Martin...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Second City e.t.c.
After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Wednesday 2/17 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Wednesday 2/17 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Wednesday 2/17 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ iO Chicago Theater
It's tough for an improv troupe to set itself apart in a city bursting with quality comedy options. With nine cute, floppy...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Shrine
Brazilian Funk returns to The Shrine for the month of February! DJs FLX and David Pardo will spin the Latin Spectrum...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
The Joffrey Ballet - Cinderella
Wednesday 2/17 @ Auditorium Theatre
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton
Music by Serge Prokofiev Sir Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella returns to The Joffrey Ballet! Cinderella grows...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Wednesday 2/17 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
