All events on Wednesday March 19
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Parts & Labor
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Wednesday Mar 19 (9pm) @ AV-aerie
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Brooklyn-born powerhouse Parts & Labor reinvigorate punk's four-to-the-floor ethos with brazen, unabashed indie energy. Seemingly malfunctioning machines pulse with erratic undercurrents as buzz-saw guitar laces... View details »
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X
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Wednesday Mar 19 (9pm) @ Metro
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Prototypical LA punks X built an era-spanning career by eschewing the standard punk signifiers of their peers, mixing rockabilly, Americana, and acoustic-folk doodles into their... View details »
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The Slits
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Wednesday Mar 19 (9pm) @ Subterranean
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London-based all-girl post-punk quintet the Slits got their big break when they nabbed an opening spot on the Clash's 1977 White Riot tour. The band... View details »
- Film
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W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
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Wednesday Mar 19 (6–7:30pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, Dusan Makavejev's whimsical pastiche of sexual politics, is one of the most radical films — in both form and content... View details »
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- Art
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The New Authentics
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Wednesday Mar 19 @ 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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Gordon Matta-Clark
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Wednesday Mar 19 (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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Rania Matar
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Wednesday Mar 19 (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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Soft Life
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Wednesday Mar 19 (9am–8pm) @ 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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Border Film Project
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Wednesday Mar 19 (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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Adaptation
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Wednesday Mar 19 (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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Edward Hopper
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Wednesday Mar 19 (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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Wednesday Mar 19 (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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Wednesday Mar 19 (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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Wednesday Mar 19 (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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Craig Doty
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Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often focus on the human... View details »
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John Phillips: New Paintings
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Wednesday Mar 19 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
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Let's Get Lost
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Wednesday Mar 19 (7pm–midnight) @ Music Box Theatre
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Forgive Bruce Weber for his sculpted Abercrombie and Fitch ads or his too-chic-for-comfort Calvin Klein photography if only to fully appreciate his exceptional, incisive documentary... View details »
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Robert Heinecken
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Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
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This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series Are You Rea (1966-67).... View details »
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Medium Cool
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Wednesday Mar 19 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
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Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms, as reflected in the... View details »
