All events on Saturday February 16
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Super Furry Animals
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Saturday Feb 16 (9pm) @ Metro
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Despite the resurgence of all things "psychedelic," no one can accuse Super Furry Animals of hijacking the wavy-gravy train — they practically man the conductor's... View details »
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Edward Hopper
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Saturday Feb 16 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective. It includes his most... View details »
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Watercolors of Winslow Homer
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Saturday Feb 16 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor painting, with landscapes depicting... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Iron Ladies of Liberia
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Saturday Feb 16 (2pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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... niel Junge's Iron Ladies paints an intimate portrait of Africa's first freely elected head of state, Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The film tracks Sirleaf... View details »
- Reading
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My Mother Wears Combat Boots
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Saturday Feb 16 (7–8pm) @ Quimby's Bookstore
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When Citizen Fish saxophonist, artist, and activist Jessica Mills became a mother, she was besieged with oodles of child-rearing tomes that seemed more suited for... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Hideout Dance Party!
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Saturday Feb 16 (9pm) @ The Hideout
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Every Saturday, the Hideout Dance Party! offers serious ass-shaking outside the usual Chicago club system. The Life During Wartime crew spins soul, R&B, hip-hop, and... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
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The New Authentics
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Saturday Feb 16 @ 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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Saturday Feb 16 (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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Gordon Matta-Clark
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Saturday Feb 16 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring to the loss of... View details »
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Aaron Van Dyke
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Saturday Feb 16 (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 »
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Labyrinth
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Saturday Feb 16 (11:59pm–2am) @ Music Box Theatre
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Any fantasy movie starring David Bowie is bound to be genius. This one comes to us from the imagination of Jim Henson, whose delicate direction... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Rania Matar
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Saturday Feb 16 (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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Mike Lash
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Saturday Feb 16 (noon–6pm) @ GARDENFresh
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Mike Lash's portraits — with their simple line-work, sardonic one-liners, and assertive, comic-book style — have always been the artist's signature, but his new work... View details »
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Cindy Loehr
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Saturday Feb 16 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche
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Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored lighting, and a collaborative... View details »
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Girls on the Verge
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Saturday Feb 16 (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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Saturday Feb 16 (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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Soft Life
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Saturday Feb 16 (9am–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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Clive Barker
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Saturday Feb 16 (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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Nowheresville
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Saturday Feb 16 (11am–6pm) @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
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Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut Hybinette and Troy Richards... View details »
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John Sabraw
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Saturday Feb 16 (10am–5:30pm) @ McCormick Gallery
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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 »
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The Commercial Woman
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Saturday Feb 16 (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 »
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Andy Roche
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Saturday Feb 16 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery 400
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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 »
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Adaptation
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Saturday Feb 16 (11am–5pm) @ Smart Museum of Art
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It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation, of combining tropes from... View details »
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Drawn by Wesley Willis
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Saturday Feb 16 (10am–6pm) @ Dominican University O'Connor Gallery of Art
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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 »
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Tiffany Calvert: New Work
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Saturday Feb 16 (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 »
