Events on Saturday, December 1
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Old Town School of Folk Music 50th Anniversary
- @ Auditorium Theatre
- Many would agree that the Old Town School of Folk Music (or as some affectionately call it, "Old School") is one... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- King Khan & BBQ Show
- @ The Note
- In the Red Records has put out some of the finest garage-rock albums of the last few years. Bands like the... View details »
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- Xanadu Sing-Along (1980)
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Olivia Newton John plays a heaven-sent, leg warmer-clad muse who encourages a frustrated artist to realize his dreams by, um, opening... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Prefuse 73
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Prefuse 73 is the brainchild of Scott Herren, who began his career in Atlanta's commercial studios. His tracks bridge the gap... View details »
- Flavorpill 50
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- More Flavor: Fair
- Spudnik Press Print Bazaar
- @ Spudnik Press
- Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, more than 20 printmakers showcase their artistic genius to benefit West Town print... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- DEPART-ment
- @ AV-aerie
- Everyone knows how spirit-crushing department stores can be around Christmas. When one considers how much overseas-crafted junk you've bought from underpaid... 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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- David Coyle
- @ Gallery 40000
- With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000.... View details »
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- Meanwhile in Baghdad…
- @ The Renaissance Society
- How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —... View details »
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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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- 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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- 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
- It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE.
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Crispin Glover has earned his status as one of Hollywood's preeminent weirdos. Reducing his cult appeal to simple eccentricity is unfair,... 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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- 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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- Andrea Myers
- @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
- Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use... View details »
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- SAIC Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
- @ Gallery 2 and project space
- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's 2007 fall graduates display their thesis projects in all types of media: painting,... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Christkindlmarket
- @ Daley Plaza
- Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter... View details »
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- The New Authentics
- @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
- In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which... View details »
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- Film
- 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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- 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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- Remote Sighs from a Desert Island, If You Were the Last One on Earth
- @ Green Lantern
- Remote Sighs from a Desert Island evokes the haunting feeling of being secretly watched. Objects are taken out of their original... View details »
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- John Parot
- @ Western Exhibitions
- Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance,... 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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