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The Bookslut Reading Series
Tuesday Jan 22, 2008 (7:30pm) @ The Hopleaf Bar
Free
This installment of Bookslut's steamy monthly reading showcase highlights three vastly different writers: Joshua Cohen, Jesse Ball, and Brian Bouldrey. With his fourth novel, A... View details »
The Bookslut Reading Series

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The New Authentics
Tuesday Jan 22, 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
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Tuesday Jan 22, 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
Tuesday Jan 22, 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
Tuesday Jan 22, 2008 (10am–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
Soft Life
Tuesday Jan 22, 2008 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
Free
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 »
Soft Life
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Clive Barker
Tuesday Jan 22, 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
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John Sabraw
Tuesday Jan 22, 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