All events on Friday March 21
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Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
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Friday Mar 21 (8–11pm) @ Vic Theatre
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Like an eager child with a coloring book, Stephen Malkmus scribbles noisy fragments over familiar structures. With Pavement, he absorbed the sweetened thrash of '80s... View details »
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The Memory Thief
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Friday Mar 21 (7pm) @ Facets Cinémathèque
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Gil Kofman's debut feature film, The Memory Thief, offers the portrait of Lukas, a tollbooth worker whose life changes when a stranger tosses him a... View details »
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Chop Shop
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Friday Mar 21 (7pm–midnight) @ Music Box Theatre
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Director Ramin Bahrani may be as "true indie" as the directors loosely clumped into the mumblecore movement, but that's where all similarities stop. Rather than... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Sightings
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Friday Mar 21 (10pm–midnight) @ The Empty Bottle
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From a simple guitar/bass/drums framework, New York noise-rock trio Sightings have launched some of most alien-sounding no-wave assaults of the last decade. Through the Panama... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Bass Science
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Friday Mar 21 (10pm–2am) @ Undisclosed until RSVP
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The Intelligent Designers and Entheon Village have drawn up a syllabus to school Chicago dub-style fans. Mashing up sounds between producers and DJs, this event... View details »
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Snow Angels
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Friday Mar 21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of small-town America working in... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Zizek Urban Beats Club
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Friday Mar 21 (9pm–2am) @ Sonotheque
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It was only a matter of time before party-cum-label Zizek ventured out of Buenos Aires and waded into the US' mashup-hungry club scene. Mixing traditional... View details »
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- Art
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The New Authentics
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Friday Mar 21 @ 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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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Border Film Project
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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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 »
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Robert Heinecken
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Friday Mar 21 (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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Friday Mar 21 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
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Unseen Current
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Friday Mar 21 (noon–5pm) @ Extension Gallery
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Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange and blue shape, emerging... View details »
