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Art
Andy Roche
Tuesday Jan 29, 2008 @ Gallery 400 More times »
Opening
Free
Andy Roche's film-based installation finds a common thread running between the ever-elusive Catholic leftist movement and recent cultural phenomena. Roche juxtaposes images from liberal Catholic... View details »
Andy Roche
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Ira Glass: This American Life
Tuesday Jan 29, 2008 (7pm) @ Borders
Free
When Chicago Public Radio's This American Life and indie-film pioneers Killer Films join forces, the payoff is a Showtime network production classic, five years in... View details »
Ira Glass: This American Life

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The New Authentics
Tuesday Jan 29, 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
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Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Tuesday Jan 29, 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 29, 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
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Kateřina Šedá
Tuesday Jan 29, 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
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Soft Life
Tuesday Jan 29, 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 29, 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: Photography
Border Film Project
Thursday Jan 31, 2008 @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University More times »
Free
Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means that, for all the... View details »
Border Film Project
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John Sabraw
Tuesday Jan 29, 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
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Drawn by Wesley Willis
Tuesday Jan 29, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Dominican University O'Connor Gallery of Art More times »
Free
Was the late Wesley Willis secretly a Renaissance man? With magical musical hits like "Rock 'n Roll McDonalds" and "Smoke Crack Rocks," you would think... View details »
Drawn by Wesley Willis