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- More Flavor: Lecture
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Artist Talk: Barbara Hashimoto
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Friday Feb 8 (7:30pm) @ Dubhe Carreno Gallery
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Dynamic, complicated subjects dominate Barbara Hashimoto's multimedia creations in her first Chicago solo exhibition, Retrospective: 17 Years of Sculpture, Installation & Performance. Hashimoto turned her... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Diplo
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Friday Feb 8 (10pm–4am) @ SmartBar
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Known to most as the beatsmith behind MIA's mixtape heard 'round the world, Piracy Funds Terrorism, Diplo has proven to be one of the most... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Six Organs of Admittance
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Friday Feb 8 (10pm–midnight) @ The Empty Bottle
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Maybe it's the Drag City association, but Six Organs of Admittance seem to play Chicago more frequently than most local bands. Still, that's no reason... View details »
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Emeralds w/ Skaters
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Friday Feb 8 (9:30pm–midnight) @ AV-aerie
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Tonight's bill at Av-aerie is a sort of mini-No Fun Fest for Chicago, promising an earful of a few solid, up-and-coming American noise bands. C.... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
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The Interview Show
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Friday Feb 8 (6:30pm) @ The Hideout
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Chicagoan Mark Bazer's syndicated humor column is dependably amusing, and he's curated an appropriately hilarious bill tonight. Bazer interviews ubiquitous standup comedian Hannibal Buress, Schadenfreude... View details »
- Film
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In Bruges
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Friday Feb 8 @ Various locations
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Directed and written by playwright Martin McDonagh (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), In Bruges suffers from the talkiness that afflicts all theatre folks' first stab at... View details »
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The New Authentics
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Friday Feb 8 @ 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 8 (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 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Rania Matar
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (10am–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 »
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Mike Lash
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Friday Feb 8 (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 8 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Girls on the Verge
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Friday Feb 8 (10:30am–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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Friday Feb 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (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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Border Film Project
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Friday Feb 8 (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 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (noon–7pm) @ 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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Adaptation
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Friday Feb 8 (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 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (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 »
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