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Autechre
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Friday Apr 11 (9pm) @ Abbey Pub
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With more than a little fanfare, glitchy innovators Autechre released Quaristice last month, their first album in three years. Living up to expectations isn't easy... View details »
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Cockails & Clay
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Friday Apr 11 (8pm–midnight) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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The Hyde Park Art Center has done much to kindle Chicago's visual-arts scene, and now it's adding fuel to the fire with a fully stocked... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Gui Boratto
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Friday Apr 11 (10pm) @ SmartBar
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Cologne's Kompakt label is home to all things great and small in electronic music. From Justus Köhncke to Superpitcher, the imprint has released much of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Evangelista
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Friday Apr 11 (9pm) @ South Union Arts
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For all of Carla Bozulich's previous triumphs, Evangelista seems like her ultimate project. Anyone familiar with the buzz-saw twang of the Geraldine Fibbers or her... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Fuck Buttons
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Friday Apr 11 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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Noise isn't supposed to be this pretty. Sure, My Bloody Valentine, Jesu, and a whole mess of pedal-pushers have shown that's not necessarily true, but... View details »
- Film
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Priceless
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Friday Apr 11 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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This comedy of errors about gold-digger Irène (Audrey Tautou of Amélie fame), who mistakes hapless bartender Jean (Gad Elmaleh from The Valet) for a rich... View details »
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The New Authentics
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Friday Apr 11 @ 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 Apr 11 (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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Adaptation
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Friday Apr 11 (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 Apr 11 (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 Apr 11 (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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John Phillips: New Paintings
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Friday Apr 11 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Robert Heinecken
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Friday Apr 11 (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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Mark Wagner
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Friday Apr 11 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions
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In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark Wagner uses his bucks... View details »
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Eli Robb
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Friday Apr 11 (noon–6pm) @ ThreeWalls
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Chicago-based artist Eli Robb's life was going swimmingly — until his house and studio caught fire and burned to the ground. Undaunted, Robb used the... View details »
- Film
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Snow Angels
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Friday Apr 11 @ 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 »
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Medium Cool
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Friday Apr 11 (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 Apr 11 (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 »