All events on Sunday January 20
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Gay Witch Abortion
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Sunday Jan 20 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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Gay Witch Abortion have yet to release an album, but their imposing sound — all distorted, downtuned guitar lines, dizzying polyrhythms, and machine-gun drumwork —... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Please Vote for Me
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Sunday Jan 20 (1:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum
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Kids can be so cruel, and nothing brings out cruelty like a competition — whether it's a race for popularity, kickball captain, or teacher's pet.... View details »
- Art
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Soft Life
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Sunday Jan 20 (noon–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art mines the often-excruciating emotions... View details »
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William Pope.L
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Sunday Jan 20 (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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Sunday Jan 20 @ 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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Sunday Jan 20 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Rania Matar
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Sunday Jan 20 (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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Sunday Jan 20 (noon–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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Sunday Jan 20 (10am–5pm) @ 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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Sunday Jan 20 (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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The Commercial Woman
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Sunday Jan 20 (noon–4pm) @ Woman Made Gallery
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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 »