Events on Sunday, December 9
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- D Numbers
- @ Subterranean
- A surprisingly concordant blend of mathematical polyrhythms, minimalist glitch samplings, and sweetly tinkling keyboard and xylophone melodies, D Numbers occupy a... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Chicago Maternity Center Story
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Thirty years before Michael Moore's critical diagnosis of the American healthcare system, The Chicago Maternity Center Story examined how the interests... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Girls on the Verge
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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