Events on Saturday, February 4
Finding Funding for Creative Projects
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
Having a great idea is one thing, but bringing it to actualization can be a long and hard process, not the...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
The MCA's annual benefit promises to be "A Fusion of Fine Art, Funk, and Flavor," and from the lineup it seems...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Newberry Library
The Indignant Generation is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African-American literature between the Harlem Renaissance...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Along with director-choreographer Carrie Hanson's penchant for issues-aware topicality (see last year's widely praised examination of the economic collapse, Stupormarket), the...
Family Day: Life is But a Dream
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Smart Museum of Art
The Smart now offers free family activities on the first Saturday of every month! This Saturday, look at dream-like paintings by...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Red Tape Theatre
A dark comedy, emphasis on the "dark," about a couple who sells their children in an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Chicago Dramatists
Playwright Jon Steinhagen takes you to the unusual days preceding the largest snowfall in Chicago history and then sharply dives into...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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....
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Totally timely in its semi-humorous focus on class warfare and the human toll exacted by the financial crisis, My Piece of...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Annoyance Theatre
It's Chicago 1893 and a landfill east of Michigan Avenue is literally supporting a neighborhood as well as the wealth of...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 65GRAND
Curated by Abraham Ritchie; featuring Samantha Bittman, Todd Chilton, Steven Husby, and Melissa Oresky. The follow up to the 2009 exhibition...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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....
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ UP Comedy Club
Comedy-folk duo Garfunkel & Oates (aka Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci) named themselves after "famous rock-and-roll second bananas" Art Garfunkel and...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Hideout
One of the key narratives in modern music is the transatlantic volley between America and Europe, each side reinterpreting and lobbing...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ EBERSMOORE
An innovative alternative space since its inception in 2009, EBERSMOORE continues to grow in size and ambition as it reopens in...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ threewalls
There's very careful continual disarray at threewalls for Veronica Bruce's ongoing installation Every time you think you've got something, an installation...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
What seems at first like a modern story with some classical references — whiskey, Speedos, and a copy of Homer —...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Document
One of the newest galleries in Chicago, having opened on January 6th, Document is run by an experienced hand in Chicago's...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Provision Theater Company
Before his tragic death in a plane crash at age 39, playwright Larry Shue penned two hilarious farces that have grown...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Chicago Improv
One of Charlie Murphy's first jobs was acting as bodyguard for his younger brother, comedian Eddie. He ended up following his...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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....
Saturday 2/ 4 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Since 1999, The Hot Karl has been presenting their brand of stage-clawing, no-holds-barred long-form improv to packed houses. You may gasp,...
