Events on Wednesday, February 29
Wednesday 2/29 @ Portage Theater
(Howard Hawks, 1934) Broadway producer John Barrymore brings starlet Carole Lombard into the public eye just as his career hits the...
The World Finder, an Epic Tragedy in Four Acts
Wednesday 2/29 @ Gallery 400
The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition is still well remembered in Chicago; the Art Institute occupies one of the former buildings, and...
Wednesday 2/29 @ Music Box Theatre
Austin-based Academy Award-nominated animator — and cult favorite — Don Hertzfeldt brings his "best of" collection to the big screen for...
Gallery Talks: Printed Scientific Instruments
Wednesday 2/29 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Suzanne Karr-Schmidt, the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/29 @ Stage 773
This original, two-act musical improvisation concept emerged from New York City in the '90s and finally makes its Chicago debut under...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ The Goodman Theatre
With meticulous attention to detail and a simmering plot, this riveting play focuses on Africans' survival strategies amid the onset of...
Wednesday 2/29 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Wednesday 2/29 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Born Lucy Schwob to a family of French intellectuals and writers, Claude Cahun (who adopted the pseudonym at age 22) is...
Wednesday 2/29 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
A remarkable achievement, On the Ice is set in this first-time director's hometown, a close-knit Iñupiaq community far north of the...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ Music Box Theatre
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman wanted to make a documentary about a nightclub, but after a trip to the Moulin Rouge put him...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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)
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
2012 AWP Conference Off-Site Events
Wednesday 2/29 @ Various Chicago locations
The official 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair, which takes place at Hilton Chicago and Palmer House...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In the category's still-young lifespan, the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature has come to frequently include one foreign art-house dark...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Wednesday 2/29 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Wednesday 2/29 @ DCA Theater
How do we form new families when the old ones no longer hold? Chicago Fusion Theatre's moving production examines episodes in...
Wednesday 2/29 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
