Events on Saturday, November 3
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Complaints Choir of Chicago
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Created in 2005 by Helsinki-based artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, the choral-comedy concept Complaints Choir has quickly spread around the... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Sunset Rubdown
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Sunset Rubdown was once just a home for good songs that couldn't join the Wolf Parade, dressed like orphans in oddball... View details »
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- Film
- Art from the Arctic
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Directed by award-winning filmmaker David Hintonhis, this 60-minute documentary explores the Cape Farewell Project, an organization of artists, scientists, and educators... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Old Town School of Folk Music's Open House
- @ Old Town School of Folk Music
- With outposts in Lincoln Park and Ravenswood, the Old Town School of Folk Music hasn't been based in Old Town for... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- Film
- 19th Annual Polish Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects, The Seasons
- @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
- A pioneer of contemporary color photography, Joel Sternfeld uses large-format prints to continue Walker Evans' tradition of documenting the American landscape.... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
- @ threewalls
- You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a... View details »
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- Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Tokyo-born, Chicago-educated Satoru Aoyama would be a photorealist painter, if his preferred medium weren't a needle and thread. His striking pictorial... View details »
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- Theaster Gates
- @ Hyde Park Art Center
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- Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- This selection of master works from Yale's prestigious collection is a thrill ride through the annals of art history, from a... View details »
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- William Pope.L
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume,... View details »
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- Film
- The Telephone Book
- @ Music Box Theatre
- The rough gem of the Music Box's Midnight Movies series, The Telephone Book is everything you could ask for in cult... View details »
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- Guns & Ammo
- @ Gallery 40000
- Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Crucible
- @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
- Steppenwolf director Anna D. Shapiro has elicited profoundly felt performances from her ensemble that bring fresh life to well-worn roles. Disregarding... View details »
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- Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
- @ Museum of Science and Industry
- Though it's presented as a chance to learn about the possibilities of real science, the true draw of this exhibit is... View details »
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- Mapping the Self
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck... View details »
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- Casting a Shadow
- @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
- Alfred Hitchcock's legendary attention to detail in his mise en scene — literally, "setting the scene" within the cinematic frame through... View details »
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- Christopher Patch
- @ Monique Meloche
- American painterly realism makes a comeback in these paintings by Maine native Christopher Patch. Matinicus began when Patch set out onboard... View details »
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- Jason Karolak
- @ Rowland Contemporary
- Chicago-based painter Jason Karolak's prodigious oil paintings evoke a feeling of intense satisfaction; he enthralls the viewer with vast, looping strokes... View details »
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- Sympathy for the Devil
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Taking its title from the 1968 Rolling Stones song, Sympathy for the Devil is grouped into geographical vignettes: New York, West... View details »
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- Performing Arts
- Mr. Fluxus
- @ The Neo-Futurarium
- In an ironic twist, many of the 20th-century "anti-art" movements, like Dada and Surrealism, have arguably become enshrined in the canon... View details »
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- Rendered in Black and Rendered
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an... View details »
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- Cody Hudson
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Graphic-designer-turned-painter Cody Hudson makes a splash with the most recent in a series of MCA 12 x 12 solo shows, There... View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- I Am Eyebeam
- @ Gallery 400
- Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,... View details »
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- Kacy Maddux
- @ Gescheidle
- Kacy Maddux's curiously symmetric, Rorschach-like creations are the end product of an intensely freeform technique. Utilizing a vocabulary of iconic, organic,... View details »
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- Audrey Niffenegger
- @ Printworks Gallery
- British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Terry Evans
- @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
- Terry Evans dazzled us with her long-term aerial photography project, Revealing Chicago, which illuminated the "urban prairie" landscape of our area... View details »
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