Events on Friday, February 10
Friday 2/10 @ The Empty Bottle
With the road regimen of Black Flag and the conceptual mania of Sufjan Stevens, Netherfriends ringleader Shawn Rosenblatt tasked himself an...
Opening Reception: HEAVEN+HELL
Friday 2/10 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Join us for the opening reception of HEAVEN+HELL. Get a glimpse of HELL on view at Intuit and treat yourself to...
Friday 2/10 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Directed by John Cassavetes and adapted from a play by Ted Allan, Love Streams follows a brother (Cassavetes) and his sister...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/10 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Red Tape Theatre
A dark comedy, emphasis on the "dark," about a couple who sells their children in an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Friday 2/10 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you enjoy your cinema in bite-sized pieces, or want to be a know-it-all at the annual Oscar party, this theatrical...
Friday 2/10 @ Johalla Projects
Heidi Norton's exhibition last year at NEIU Fine Art Center was titled Not to Touch the Earth; going the opposite direction...
Friday 2/10 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Just what did the tobacco industry know about the evils of nicotine, and when did it know it? That's the subject...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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....
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Provision Theater Company
Before his tragic death in a plane crash at age 39, playwright Larry Shue penned two hilarious farces that have grown...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Friday 2/10 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Friday 2/10 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Friday 2/10 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Friday 2/10 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
How to create a performance about social problems without becoming mired in lament? Hip-hop theatre quartet Universes covers the gamut of...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Friday 2/10 @ 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....
Friday 2/10 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Luminous Field at Millennium Park
Friday 2/10 @ Millennium Park
If you've ever witnessed children spontaneously dancing in front of Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate (aka The Bean) then you probably understand...
Friday 2/10 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Friday 2/10 @ UP Comedy Club
With the "geek" and "cool" circles on the cultural Venn diagram overlapping as never before, few performers work the intersection like...
Friday 2/10 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
Friday 2/10 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
A companion to the exhibition at Intuit, LUMA features the idiosyncratic visions of heaven from outsider artists, with Intuit showing hell....
Friday 2/10 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
Navy Pier. Beloved by tourists, rarely visited by Chicagoans unless dragged there by said tourist friends/relatives. But once you are there...
Friday 2/10 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
Friday 2/10 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago proudly welcomes the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for their presentation of Light Moves, a collaboration...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Profiles Theatre
Leslye Headland's runaway off-Broadway hit makes its Midwest premiere at Profiles Theatre in a brazen production helmed by Artistic Director Darrell...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Friday 2/10 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Friday 2/10 @ 65GRAND
Curated by Abraham Ritchie; featuring Samantha Bittman, Todd Chilton, Steven Husby, and Melissa Oresky. The follow up to the 2009 exhibition...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Corbett vs Dempsey
Well in advance of her May exhibition at the MCA in the newly minted Chicago Works series, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung presents Negative...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...
Friday 2/10 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Friday 2/10 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Bertrand Bonello's languid portrait of a turn-of-the-century Parisian brothel made several critics' Best of 2011 lists, but it's only now finding...
Friday 2/10 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Friday 2/10 @ EBERSMOORE
An innovative alternative space since its inception in 2009, EBERSMOORE continues to grow in size and ambition as it reopens in...
Friday 2/10 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ American Theater Company
Like each of the play's enlightened, well-meaning young professionals, all ideological systems prove desperately flawed in Ayad Akhtar's bold, searing look...
Friday 2/10 @ Chicago Dramatists
Playwright Jon Steinhagen takes you to the unusual days preceding the largest snowfall in Chicago history and then sharply dives into...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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....
Friday 2/10 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Friday 2/10 @ Document
One of the newest galleries in Chicago, having opened on January 6th, Document is run by an experienced hand in Chicago's...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
American Idiot is the latest in a hard-rocking string of hit Broadway musicals. But while Rent and Spring Awakening boast trendy...
Poetry on Stage | Dreamweaver: The Works of Langston Hughes
Friday 2/10 @ Poetry Foundation
Actor and writer David Mills’s one-person dramatic rendition of Langston Hughes’s poems and short stories journeys through the Harlem Renaissance—from the...
Friday 2/10 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
Friday 2/10 @ Links Hall
Presented by Mindy Upin Lindsey and Mindy are a goofy, fun team, but are nothing less than dancing machines. Their...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
