Events on Wednesday, February 8
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ Various Chicago Venues
The sun continues to shine on fans of lo-fi Kiwi pop as Woollen Kits, one of the standouts from a new,...
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ Portage Theater
The revisionist spirit was everywhere in Hollywood in the late 1960s, with western mythos receiving special scrutiny in such fare as...
Gallery Talks: Of Flowers and Autopsies: Making Early Modern History
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Northwestern art history professor Claudia Swan discusses the role of botanical and anatomical illustration in the pursuit of knowledge about the...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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)
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
Wednesday 2/ 8 @ 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...
