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- Performing Arts: Dance
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The Trocks
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Thursday Jan 17 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Harris Theater
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To put it simply, the 34-year-old Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo company performs en pointe, in drag. But despite goofy, faux-Russian stage names like... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
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Christine Stansell
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Thursday Jan 17 (4:30–6pm) @ University of Chicago - Social Sciences
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Christine Stansell, a leading historian of gender history and a new professor at the University of Chicago, speaks tonight about the tensions between second-wave feminists... View details »
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Seth Price
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Thursday Jan 17 (6–7pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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New York-based multimedia artist Seth Price brings ideas about media appropriation and a slew of heady, hodgepodge videos for his lecture today, organized by the... View details »
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- Art
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William Pope.L
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Thursday Jan 17 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume, to draw attention to... View details »
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The New Authentics
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Thursday Jan 17 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
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In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which faith and history color... View details »
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Mapping the Self
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Thursday Jan 17 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck has organized an exhibition... View details »
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Aaron Van Dyke
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Thursday Jan 17 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions
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Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke. His appropriation of text,... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Rania Matar
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Thursday Jan 17 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant inner conflicts of Lebanese... View details »
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Kateřina Šedá
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Thursday Jan 17 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society
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Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana back into family life... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Girls on the Verge
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Thursday Jan 17 (10:30am–8pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art Institute's photography exhibition Girls... View details »
- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Thursday Jan 17 (3pm–midnight) @ Various locations
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Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared its film adaptation might... View details »
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Clive Barker
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Thursday Jan 17 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery
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... rror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also happens to be... View details »
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Tiffany Calvert: New Work
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Thursday Jan 17 (noon–6pm) @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
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Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with... View details »
