Events on Monday, March 15

Lecture: Doris Salcedo

Art

Lecture: Doris Salcedo

Monday 3/15 @ School of the Art Institute Auditorium

Often derived from research into historical events, Doris Salcedo's sculptures and installations are powerful in their spareness, conjuring a profound sense... 

White Mice w/ Liturgy, Tinsel Teeth, and Cacaw

Music: Experimental

White Mice

Monday 3/15 @ The Mopery

White Mice will never be granted the imprimatur enjoyed by Lightning Bolt or Black Dice, all of whom emerged from the... 

Story Week Festival of Writers - Joyce Carol Oates: Reading, Conversation, and Signing

Books: Reading

Story Week Festival of Writers - Joyce Carol Oates: Reading, Conversation, and Signing

Monday 3/15 @ Columbia College Chicago

If you took Creative Writing 101, chances are you've read "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," that requisite short-story... 

Woods w/ Real Estate

Music

Woods

Monday 3/15 @ Lincoln Hall

A few years back, Woods were embracing lo-fi rawness and putting out runs of cassettes through their own label, F*ck It... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Red Riding Trilogy</em>

Film

The Red Riding Trilogy

Monday 3/15 @ Music Box Theatre

"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult... 

Maya Lin

Art

Maya Lin

Monday 3/15 @ The Arts Club of Chicago

The name Maya Lin goes hand in hand with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC. Less well-known is Lin's long-running practice... 

<em>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero

Art

Angel Otero

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered</em>

Art: Photography

50% Grey

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>

Art

Christine Tarkowski

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Sonnenzimmer: <em>Vorab Fabrik</em>

Art

Sonnenzimmer

Monday 3/15 @ The Family Room

The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of... 

<em>I Am Love</em>

Film

I Am Love

Monday 3/15 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

Tilda Swinton is an uncommon sort of silver-screen powerhouse: still a formidable actor's actor and a consistent scene stealer, but with... 

<em>Taming of the Flu</em>

Comedy

Taming of the Flu

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961&ndash;2008</em>

Art

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera

Monday 3/15 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

You've seen a William Eggleston or five, we'll put money on it, whether it's his famous ground-level trike shot or the... 

Stan Chisholm: <em>ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened</em>

Art

Stan Chisholm

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>A True History of the Johnstown Flood</em>

Theatre

A True History of the Johnstown Flood

Monday 3/15 @ The Goodman Theatre

The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,... 

<em>Fish Tank</em>

Film

Fish Tank

Monday 3/15 @ Music Box Theatre

Acclaimed British drama Fish Tank follows troubled teen and aspiring urban dancer Mia Williams (played by first-time actress Katie Jarvis) as... 

Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico

Special Event

Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico

Monday 3/15 @ Chicago History Museum

As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its... 

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Special Event

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Monday 3/15 @ Chicago History Museum

He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Monday 3/15 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...