Events on Tuesday, March 2
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ Doc Films
Christopher Maclaine's manic films reflect his short, tragic life — addicted to speed and meth, the lesser-known beat poet died at...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ The Family Room
The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ 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...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ The Shrine
Getting the week started early, WCGI's own heavy hitter, Timbuck2 hits it hard! Flexing knowlege and the funk. With Special guest...
Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of...
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ 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
Tuesday 3/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
