Events on Friday, February 8
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- Music
- [SOLD OUT] MGMT w/ Yeasayer
- @ Schubas
- Yeasayer couldn't have picked a better name for themselves. It's epic. It's resolute. It's got an air of mystery — and... View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Interview Show
- @ The Hideout
- Chicagoan Mark Bazer's syndicated humor column is dependably amusing, and he's curated an appropriately hilarious bill tonight. Bazer interviews ubiquitous standup... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Diplo
- @ SmartBar
- Known to most as the beatsmith behind MIA's mixtape heard 'round the world, Piracy Funds Terrorism, Diplo has proven to be... View details »
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- Artist Talk: Barbara Hashimoto
- @ Dubhe Carreno Gallery
- Dynamic, complicated subjects dominate Barbara Hashimoto's multimedia creations in her first Chicago solo exhibition, Retrospective: 17 Years of Sculpture, Installation &... View details »
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- Film
- In Bruges
- @ Various locations
- Directed and written by playwright Martin McDonagh (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), In Bruges suffers from the talkiness that afflicts all theatre... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Six Organs of Admittance
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Maybe it's the Drag City association, but Six Organs of Admittance seem to play Chicago more frequently than most local bands.... View details »
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- Music
- Emeralds w/ Skaters
- @ AV-aerie
- 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Taxi to the Dark Side doesn't tell us anything new about the growing use of torture in US foreign policy; in... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Paintings Below Zero
- @ Millennium Park
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The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
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OngoingFree
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- Aaron Van Dyke
- @ Western Exhibitions
- Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke.... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art: Photography
- Border Film Project
- @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
- Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- The Commercial Woman
- @ Woman Made Gallery
- Woman Made Gallery's current group exhibition investigates the role of the female form in advertising and how it effects women's perceptions... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Clive Barker
- @ Packer Schopf Gallery
- Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Gordon Matta-Clark
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring... View details »
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- John Sabraw
- @ McCormick Gallery
- Hyper-realistic landscapes and eerily futuristic still lifes come together in new work by English-born painter John Sabraw. In this exhibit, titled... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film: Animation
- Persepolis
- @ Various locations
- Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- This Land Is Your Land
- @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Soft Life
- @ Hyde Park Art Center
- Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Mike Lash
- @ GARDENFresh
- Mike Lash's portraits — with their simple line-work, sardonic one-liners, and assertive, comic-book style — have always been the artist's signature,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Cindy Loehr
- @ Monique Meloche
- Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Mapping the Self
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Girls on the Verge
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Kateřina Šedá
- @ The Renaissance Society
- Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Susan Marshall & Company
- @ Dance Center of Columbia College
- Susan Marshall choreographs like Beckett wrote: thoughtfully, choosing a small vocabulary of elements to represent a multitude of ideas, and using... View details »
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- Drawn by Wesley Willis
- @ Dominican University O'Connor Gallery of Art
- Was the late Wesley Willis secretly a Renaissance man? With magical musical hits like "Rock 'n Roll McDonalds" and "Smoke Crack... View details »
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- Film
- There Will Be Blood
- @ Various locations
- It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Art
- Some Abstraction Occurs
- @ 65GRAND
- Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art: Photography
- Rania Matar
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Tiffany Calvert: New Work
- @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
- Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Nowheresville
- @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
- Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio... View details »
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- The New Authentics
- @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
- In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which... View details »
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- Adaptation
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- More Flavor
- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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