Events on Wednesday, February 1
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Harold Washington Library
Lori Andrews, internationally acclaimed legal pioneer in the areas of modern ethics and privacy, discusses and signs her latest book, I...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Sheffield's
From 19th-century tipplers Baudelaire and Poe to more modern-age boozers like Hemingway and Bukowski, alcohol has, for better or worse, been...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Doc Films
Sergio Leone may have pioneered the spaghetti western with his "Dollar Trilogy," but the Italian director's true masterpiece is the dark,...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Lincoln Hall
Chicago-birthed, Brooklyn-based duo Mountains traffic in all manner of "spacey" circles on their second proper album for Thrill Jockey, but they've...
Picturing and Observing the Night Sky
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Dearborn Observatory, 2131 Tech Drive, Northwestern University, Evanston Join us at Northwestern University's observatory for an evening of stargazing! Block Museum...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Raw paint occasionally squeezed right from the tube onto canvas marks the debut exhibition of André Butzer's work in the Midwest....
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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....
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
In Tomboy, filmmaker Céline Sciamma's (Water Lilies) second feature, a family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure (Zoé Heran) and 6-year-old Jeanne...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
While the holiday season has come and gone and the New Year just begun, Lloyd DeGrane's photographs of maximum-security prisons at...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
What seems at first like a modern story with some classical references — whiskey, Speedos, and a copy of Homer —...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Chopin Theatre
The Hypocrites take on a play as metatheatrical as they are, with some mixed but generally entertaining results. Luigi Pirandello's early-1920s...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Morbid Curiosity looks death straight in the eye in the sprawling exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center that includes about 1,000...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Maxwell Colette Gallery
Since the Occupy demonstrations began in downtown Chicago, street-art stickers have been prolific in the Loop, appearing on any flat surface...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
A companion exhibition to the death-themed Morbid Curiosity, "speculative designer" Jessica Charlesworth presents The MeMo Organization Cabinet, "MeMo" being short for...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
Iran's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of Berlin's Golden Bear, A Separation is a complex family drama that...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Mickle Maher's play is premised on such an inherently absurd concept — a set of 11 short scenes, all variations on...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Filmed over the span of 20 years, My Reincarnation follows the lives of a high Tibetan Buddhist master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu,...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
An anxiousness exists among people of color because there is still an expectation to "perform," explain and react to one's Blackness...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
Homa Shojaie presents ASCENT, an installation that investigates the material space of canvas to explore archetypal personas. Shojaie's new work creates...
