All events on Friday April 18
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Rogue Wave
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Friday Apr 18 (10:30pm) @ Schubas
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Last year, Rogue Wave — they of the whispering-to-soaring, Pacific Coast anthem — signed with lame-o troubadour Jack Johnson's label for their latest release, Asleep... View details »
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Jay Davis
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Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Bucket Rider
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Brooklyn-based artist Jay Davis returns to Chicago with new paintings on vinyl. His colorful, mystical pieces are complex and full of life, vibrating with recurring... View details »
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Ken Fandell
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Friday Apr 18 (5–8pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery
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In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble telescope, fragmented and refracted... View details »
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Flight of the Red Balloon
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Friday Apr 18 (noon) @ Music Box Theatre
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Chinese director Hsiao-hsien Hou's glorious response to the 1956 classic The Red Balloon commences with a long, nearly silent scene of a boy with his... View details »
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The Death Set
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Friday Apr 18 (9:30pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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In the grand tradition of misleading band names (the Pop Group, the Clean), the Death Set's handle suggests Satanic verses and Cookie Monster vocals. But... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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Rjd2
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Friday Apr 18 (9pm) @ Abbey Pub
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With a hometown like Eugene, Oregon, and a name like Ramble John, an upcoming DJ is sure to stand out. So, perhaps it was inevitable... View details »
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The Visitor
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Friday Apr 18 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
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Gordon Matta-Clark
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Friday Apr 18 (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 18 (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 18 (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 18 (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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Mark Wagner
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Friday Apr 18 (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 18 (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 »
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Snow Angels
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Friday Apr 18 @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
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Unseen Current
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Friday Apr 18 (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 »
