All events on Friday February 29
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John Phillips: New Paintings
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery
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Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show at the newly christened... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Junior Boys DJ set
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Friday Feb 29 (10pm–4am) @ SmartBar
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When founding member Johnny Dark left Canada's Junior Boys, he seemed to take the electronic act's original, grime-meets-Timbaland aesthetic with him. But even die-hard fans... View details »
- Film
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Black Girl
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Friday Feb 29 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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Thought to be the first feature film made by an African in the sub-Sahara, Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl is a near-forgotten milestone of '60s cinema.... View details »
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The Counterfeiters
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Friday Feb 29 (7pm) @ Music Box Theatre
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Someone's got to say this aloud: It's getting hard to rouse the will to see more films about the Holocaust. Only Germany still excavates new... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Chicago 10
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Friday Feb 29 (2–3pm) @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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In Brett Morgan's Chicago 10, stylish archival footage and original animation make an unusually powerful marriage of form and function: a re-creation of the now-legendary... View details »
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The New Authentics
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Friday Feb 29 @ 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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Friday Feb 29 (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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Friday Feb 29 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Rania Matar
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Friday Feb 29 (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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Friday Feb 29 (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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Friday Feb 29 (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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Soft Life
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Friday Feb 29 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Border Film Project
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Friday Feb 29 (9am–5pm) @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
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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 »
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Nowheresville
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Friday Feb 29 (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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Adaptation
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Friday Feb 29 (10am–4pm) @ 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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Friday Feb 29 (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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Edward Hopper
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Friday Feb 29 (10:30am–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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Friday Feb 29 (10:30am–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 »
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Joseph Noderer
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–5pm) @ Linda Warren Gallery
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Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could easily be mistaken for... View details »
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James J. Peterson
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Friday Feb 29 (noon–5pm) @ Gescheidle
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In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts the only way he... View details »
