Events on Sunday, January 22
Sunday 1/22 @ Reggies Rock Club
Kool Keith — the oddball rapper and co-founder of Ultramagnetic MCs who also goes by Dr. Octagon and Black Elvis —...
Sunday 1/22 @ The Whistler
Pretty Monsters drifts and lurches between doomy songs, noisy improv, and eerie experimental chamber music. With compositions and leadership by bassoonist...
Sunday 1/22 @ Doc Films
Master of Polish new wave cinema Jerzy Skolimowski's acclaimed 1970 film Deep End is remembered as much for its truly bitchin'...
"Vision and Communism" Closing-day Tour
Sunday 1/22 @ Smart Museum of Art
Get an in-depth look at Vision and Communism during a closing-day tour led by exhibition co-curator Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor...
Sunday 1/22 @ Smart Museum of Art
Get an in-depth look at the Soviet art on view at the Smart. Join Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/22 @ Flat Iron Arts Building
"I make shit up," the protagonist of Carlos Murillo's indubitably dark play announces in its opening moments; the rest of dark...
Sunday 1/22 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Sunday 1/22 @ Public Works Gallery
Artist Veronica Corzo-Duchardt's Neche Collection is a set of minimal, atmospheric prints and print/photo diptychs that retell the story of her...
Sunday 1/22 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Filmed over the span of 20 years, My Reincarnation follows the lives of a high Tibetan Buddhist master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu,...
Sunday 1/22 @ Various Chicago theaters
This black-and-white, near-silent throwback by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (OSS 117) delivers film-geek kicks in both form (gleefully antiquated transitions, early-cinema...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Sunday 1/22 @ Hyde Park Art Center
The so-called new reality of the post-recession era has been in full effect at Cream Co.'s GEEE, on exhibition at the...
Sunday 1/22 @ Smart Museum of Art
For almost a year now Chicago has been hosting The Soviet Experience, a citywide presentation of artists working "under (and in...
Sunday 1/22 @ Music Box Theatre
Haruki Murakami's bestselling novel is brought to the screen by Oscar nominee Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya). Tokyo,...
Sunday 1/22 @ MCA Chicago
The highly acclaimed contemporary dance companies Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Hubbard Street 2 (HS2) perform new works created by developing...
Sunday 1/22 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Sunday 1/22 @ DCA Theater
In Kōbō Abe's darkly comedic drama, tormented ex-soldier Fukagawa and grifter Oba partner in business during Japan's still-reeling early postwar years....
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Sunday 1/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Sunday 1/22 @ Peregrine Program
A recent hire by the Museum of Contemporary Art as a Curatorial Assistant, a former Flavorpill contributor, and an active artist,...
Sunday 1/22 @ Various Chicago theaters
After directing two brilliant, barbed satires, Citizen Ruth and the Preston Sturges-worthy Election, Alexander Payne became American film's poet laureate of...
Sunday 1/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Even though we can easily manipulate images with Photoshop or create entire alien worlds, like that in Avatar, the photographic image...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Sunday 1/22 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Among its many accomplishments, the pioneering movement known broadly as Conceptual Art succeeded in bringing photography definitively into the mainstream of...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Sunday 1/22 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
This taut, streamlined Tempest hurtles through CST with gale-force creative energy. Condensing Shakespeare's play to an hour-long romp through a fragmented...
Sunday 1/22 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
Sunday 1/22 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Sunday 1/22 @ Pop Up Art Loop
Outfitted with goggles on bubble-like bodies, the recognizable characters from street artist Nice One seem to float through their world and...
Sunday 1/22 @ Chicago Dramatists
Playwright Jon Steinhagen takes you to the unusual days preceding the largest snowfall in Chicago history and then sharply dives into...
Sunday 1/22 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
What seems at first like a modern story with some classical references — whiskey, Speedos, and a copy of Homer —...
Sunday 1/22 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Sunday 1/22 @ DePaul Art Museum
The DePaul Art Museum opens their brand new building with Re: Chicago, an exhibition that is crowd-sourced from the experts: Chicago's...
Sunday 1/22 @ Music Box Theatre
A film by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel and Peter van Eyck. In a squalid South American oil town,...
The Mary Kay Letourneau Players Present...
Sunday 1/22 @ iO Chicago Theater
As you might infer from their choice of infamous eponym, the Mary Kay Letourneau Players are not particularly concerned about offending...
Sunday 1/22 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Sunday 1/22 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Sunday 1/22 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Like a lot of Chicago culture hounds, we've always been a fan of actor Michael Shannon; but after seeing his performance...
Sunday 1/22 @ MCA Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art has moved to replace its long-running UBS 12x12 exhibitions, which focused on a different Chicago-based artist...
Sunday 1/22 @ Peanut Gallery
Peanut Gallery was voted "Best New Gallery of the Future" in 2011 by Newcity, so begin the New Year by paying...
Sunday 1/22 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Sunday 1/22 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Pulled from his yearlong drawing-a-day blog Coco River Fudge Street, the Hyde Park Art Center presents the work of David Leggett....
Sunday 1/22 @ The Second City
Yes, there's an obligatory farewell to Rich Daley in the Second City's 99th mainstage revue, but after sending up politics and the...
Sunday 1/22 @ A + D Gallery
It's a total freak show at Columbia College's A + D Gallery, where Cannonball Press is exhibiting a series of prints...
Sunday 1/22 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
We've been anxious to see how one of the most fascinating directors working today, David Cronenberg, explores the dynamic between famed...
Sunday 1/22 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Sunday 1/22 @ Chopin Theatre
The Hypocrites apply their winning formula of hip deconstruction and dark comedy to the cherished operetta Pirates of Penzance. Gilbert and...
Sunday 1/22 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Going beyond the film-school staples (without overlooking them), this retrospective of the pioneering Russian filmmaker and theorist spans all stages of...
Sunday 1/22 @ Julius Caesar
Appropriately bookended by two images of a hand holding a lit lighter, as if at a concert, Danielle Gustafson-Sundell's exhibition spreads...
Sunday 1/22 @ AMC River East 21
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Sunday 1/22 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Sunday 1/22 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Sunday 1/22 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Currently scientists must be highly specialized in their own respective fields, so much so that it is becoming a problem since...
Sunday 1/22 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
Sunday 1/22 @ Links Hall
Co-created by Marilyn Volkman & Danielle Paz, in collaboration with Amor Pirata Arte No Es Fácil (Art Is Not Easy) is part of a Links Hall Artistic Associates festival. ...
