Free on Saturday January 19

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Film: Documentary
Banished (2006)
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (2pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
Free
Director Marco Williams' film, which garnered a documentary nomination at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, is an unsettling tale of American race relations. Williams visits... View details »
Banished (2006)
Reading
Small Acts of Repair
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (3:30–5:30pm) @ Links Hall
Free
In tandem with their performance piece The Lastmaker, which comes to the MCA Theater in late March, Goat Island has published a book that's part... View details »
Small Acts of Repair

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Art
The New Authentics
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
Free
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 »
The New Authentics
Art
Aaron Van Dyke
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
Free
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 »
Aaron Van Dyke
Art
Some Abstraction Occurs
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–5:30pm) @ 65GRAND More times »
Free
Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at intimate gallery 65GRAND. Curator... View details »
Some Abstraction Occurs
Art
Ghost Town
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Devening Projects + Editions More times »
Free
With metallic, elegant renderings of urban detritus and wasted cities, Austrian artist Felix Malnig carves his own niche out of the contemporary landscape. Malnig's spray-painted... View details »
Ghost Town
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio apartment with his art... View details »
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
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 »
Rania Matar
Art
Kateřina Šedá
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
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 »
Kateřina Šedá
Art
Clive Barker
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery More times »
Free
... rror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also happens to be... View details »
Clive Barker
Art
John Sabraw
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ McCormick Gallery More times »
Free
Hyper-realistic landscapes and eerily futuristic still lifes come together in new work by English-born painter John Sabraw. In this exhibit, titled Harbinger, he displays elegantly... View details »
John Sabraw
Art
The Commercial Woman
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–4pm) @ Woman Made Gallery More times »
Free
Woman Made Gallery's current group exhibition investigates the role of the female form in advertising and how it effects women's perceptions of themselves and others.... View details »
The Commercial Woman
Art
Tiffany Calvert: New Work
Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Lisa Boyle Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Tiffany Calvert: New Work