Events on Tuesday, February 7
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Columbus Auditorium
Sam Lipsyte and Ben Marcus are individually responsible for some of the most wonderfully wicked prose of the decade: Lipsyte's wildly...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Lincoln Hall
Hailing from Copenhagen, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour released their sophomore record, Out Of Frequency, in late January. Brandishing a signature sound...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 57th Street Books
To leaf through the pages of Roctober, Jake Austen's decades-running, Chicago-based obscuro-rock zine, is an experience more akin to viewing an...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ The Empty Bottle
In her excellent list of cultural resolutions for 2012, Flavorwire's Judy Berman lamented indie rock's return to "belabored, faux-rustic, quasi-literary troubadour...
Conversations in the Arts: Gloria Steinem
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Columbia College Chicago
Conversations in the Arts offers in-depth dialogue with some of the world’s most notable cultural figures in a select and intimate...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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....
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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....
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 7 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
