Events on Thursday, March 1
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The brilliantly anarchic videos of French-born, London-based artist Laure Prouvost run wild with the rules of cinema, narrative, and language. Prouvost's...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Doc Films
Action maverick Don Siegel followed the watershed Dirty Harry with this taut, character-driven heist flick, a model act of '70s American...
POETRY Presents: Shoot the Canon
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Poetry Foundation
Poetry presents poets performing covers of and reading discoveries from the last 100 years of the magazine, featuring Christian Bök, Peter...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
In August, 1994, more than 33,000 Cubans attempted to escape the island by sea. Two writers, friends since adolescence, are faced...
Ongoing Events
The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Smart Museum of Art
When was the last time you enjoyed a drink with Madeleine Grynsztejn, the Director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art? Or...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Various Chicago locations
The official 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair, which takes place at Hilton Chicago and Palmer House...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ DCA Theater
How do we form new families when the old ones no longer hold? Chicago Fusion Theatre's moving production examines episodes in...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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....
Thursday 3/ 1 @ The Goodman Theatre
With meticulous attention to detail and a simmering plot, this riveting play focuses on Africans' survival strategies amid the onset of...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
The gorilla-masked Guerrilla Girls assaulted the art world during the Culture Wars of the 1980s, so you'd think that their statistics...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Red Tape Theatre
A dark comedy, emphasis on the "dark," about a couple who sells their children in an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman wanted to make a documentary about a nightclub, but after a trip to the Moulin Rouge put him...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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....
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Angel Island
Superior Donuts was written by Tracy Letts and debuted at Steppenwolf in 2008; the following year, the acclaimed production made its...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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....
Thursday 3/ 1 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Theater Wit
Police state. Illegal detention. Torture. Screwball comedy? Despite these seeming incongruities, we found ourselves immersed in equal measures of armrest-gripping suspense...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Northwestern Student Docent Exhibition Tours
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
How could a folded piece of paper tell the time in multiple countries in 1512? Find out the amazing answer to...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
