Events on Saturday, March 1
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Black Lips
- @ Logan Square Auditorium
- Black Lips just can't stand to sit still. Not letting up on 2007's relentless schedule, the Atlanta group has announced a... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Lightspeed Champion
- @ AV-aerie
- While UK indie roots-rocker Lightspeed Champion (aka singer/guitarist Devonte Hynes) rose to semi-prominence with Test Icicles, little trace of that band's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Garth Fagan Dance
- @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
- Dance described as "a fusion of different techniques" is often only partially so — more a whistle-stop tour of an artist's... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Atlas Sound
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Googling Bradford Cox yields a few key points: he's tall, he's confrontational, and he sings in Georgian dream-punk band Deerhunter. The... View details »
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- Music: Classical
- Music from Final Fantasy
- @ Rosemont Theatre
- Some may consider them kiddy stuff, but video games gross more money in America than Hollywood movies. So it makes sense... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Edward Hopper
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective.... View details »
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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Little Shop of Horrors
- @ The Blue Theatre
- Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart —... View details »
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- Andy Roche
- @ Gallery 400
- Andy Roche's film-based installation finds a common thread running between the ever-elusive Catholic leftist movement and recent cultural phenomena. Roche juxtaposes... View details »
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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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- Joseph Noderer
- @ Linda Warren Gallery
- Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could... View details »
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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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- 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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- Film: Animation
- The Zagreb School of Animation
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Somewhere between Sleeping Beauty's first kiss and Winnie the Pooh's honey binge, a small Croatian studio called Zagreb reconsidered the possibilities... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
- @ The Annoyance Theatre
- Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just... View details »
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- 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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- James J. Peterson
- @ Gescheidle
- In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts... 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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- 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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- Watercolors of Winslow Homer
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- My Dinner with Amy
- @ Theatre Building Chicago
- After its extended run on 54th Street in Manhattan (that's off-off Broadway, not off-off-off, thankyouverymuch), Tony Fiorentino's theatrical rom-com My Dinner... View details »
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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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- 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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- John Phillips: New Paintings
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- 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... View details »
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