Time to plan your Mother’s Day weekend. Here are some things we recommend you do (with or without mom):

Through 9/25: “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” on display now at the Museum of Contemporary Art (220 E. Chicago), is an exhibition of the artist’s paintings from the last 35 years. Sasha Geffen writes, “The subjects’ eyes stand out because their skin is stark, symbolic black: charcoal, ebony, obsidian. Marshall paints human figures with the darkest shade of each composition’s palette. They appear to be negative space, but they’re all fiercely human.”