Events on Friday, March 28
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Bodies of Water
- @ Schubas
- LA's Bodies of Water make life-affirming indie pop, a happy-go-lucky mashup of Arcade Fire's heart-thumping arrangements, the Polyphonic Spree's communal euphoria,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- [SOLD OUT] RampFest 2008
- @ Prairie Production
- It's not often that vegetables are the guests of honor, so RampFest is a chance for the unsung star of the... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- It's the summer of 1970 in Brazil, and 12-year-old Mauro's radical parents have left him at his grandfather's house so hastily... 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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- 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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OngoingFree
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Unseen Current
- @ Extension Gallery
- Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange... View details »
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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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- [SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories... 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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- Film
- CJ7
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Chinese director/star Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (2004), a whirl of martial-arts pyrotechnics and tomfoolery, proved irresistible to even the most... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Robert Heinecken
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Bear Force One
- @ The Annoyance Theatre
- When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Brown Bag Stitching Salon
- @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
- This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded... View details »
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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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- Medium Cool
- @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
- Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,... 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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- Snow Angels
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Craig Doty
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Steady Rain
- @ Royal George Theatre Center
- Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only... 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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OngoingFree
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- Nicholas Knight: Depictured
- @ 65GRAND
- For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works... 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Lagerfeld Confidential
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Perhaps the only fashion designer to be immortalized by a collectable figurine, Karl Lagerfeld has become as iconic as the great... 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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- 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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