Events on Monday, February 6
Monday 2/ 6 @ The Empty Bottle
On the Venn diagram of local underground rock, Radar Eyes occupy the overlap between our garage-rock, neo-shoegaze, and psychedelic circles (arguably...
Monday 2/ 6 @ Links Hall
after that, later, then is a solo piece constructed from dance, text, song, costume and image that revolves around sudden interruptions,...
Ongoing Events
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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....
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ Athenaeum Theatre
After a decade-long sojourn from regular performance, Jeff Mangum, the former frontman of Neutral Milk Hotel, and one of indie rock's...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Monday 2/ 6 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 6 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Monday 2/ 6 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
Monday 2/ 6 @ 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...
