All events on Saturday March 01
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Black Lips
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Saturday Mar 1 (8:30–10pm) @ Logan Square Auditorium
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Black Lips just can't stand to sit still. Not letting up on 2007's relentless schedule, the Atlanta group has announced a rigorous follow-up tour, before... View details »
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Atlas Sound
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Saturday Mar 1 (9:30pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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Googling Bradford Cox yields a few key points: he's tall, he's confrontational, and he sings in Georgian dream-punk band Deerhunter. The first two facts often... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Garth Fagan Dance
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Saturday Mar 1 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
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Dance described as "a fusion of different techniques" is often only partially so — more a whistle-stop tour of an artist's varied interests than a... View details »
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Lightspeed Champion
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Saturday Mar 1 (9–11pm) @ AV-aerie
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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 ADD-riddled, dance-punk chaos remains.... View details »
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The New Authentics
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Saturday Mar 1 @ 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 Mar 1 (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 Mar 1 (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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Saturday Mar 1 (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 Mar 1 (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 Mar 1 (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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Saturday Mar 1 (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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Nowheresville
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Saturday Mar 1 (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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Andy Roche
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Saturday Mar 1 (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 Mar 1 (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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Edward Hopper
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Saturday Mar 1 (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 Mar 1 (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 »
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Joseph Noderer
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Saturday Mar 1 (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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Saturday Mar 1 (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 »
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John Phillips: New Paintings
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Saturday Mar 1 (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 »
