Events on Wednesday, February 15
Wednesday 2/15 @ Smart Museum of Art
By now, most of us are probably familiar with the idea and term Relational Aesthetics. A theory formed by Nicolas Bourriaud...
Ongoing Events
Luminous Field at Millennium Park
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/15 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
The apartment gallery phenomena in Chicago is a crucial component of the city's visual-art fabric, where aspiring artists, curators, directors, and...
Wednesday 2/15 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
No recent film event has enraptured critical circles more than TIFF's comprehensive, traveling retrospective of Robert Bresson's career, the first of...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/15 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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
Wednesday 2/15 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/15 @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/15 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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....
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Wednesday 2/15 @ MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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 2/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/15 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Wednesday 2/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/15 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
The themes of heaven and hell are frequently addressed in outsider and intuitive art. Outsider artists' perspectives range from illustrative, word-laden...
The Joffrey Ballet Winter Fire
Wednesday 2/15 @ Auditorium Theatre
In the middle, somewhat elevated Choreography: William Forsythe Music: Thom Willems Raw and muscular with a throbbing, electronic score, this is...
Wednesday 2/15 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
