All events on Friday April 25
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Cloud Cult
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Friday Apr 25 (7pm) @ Schubas
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Minnesota-based art-rockers Cloud Cult have principles. Since musician/environmentalist Craig Minowa founded the band in 1995, the Cult have scorned lucrative record deals in favor of... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
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I Heart Robots 2.0
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Friday Apr 25 (9pm) @ School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Gallery 2
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Artist Suzie Silver returns to her alma mater with collaborator Terry Boyd to present I Heart Robots 2.0: A Spacedelic Video Dance Party, and an... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Bomb It
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Friday Apr 25 @ Facets Cinémathèque
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A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey the global community of... View details »
- Film
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Double Indemnity
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Friday Apr 25 (6pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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Double Indemnity is the quintessential film noir — a pitch-black whirlwind of double entendres and triple crosses in which Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray plot... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Aaron Dilloway
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Friday Apr 25 (8pm) @ The Flowershop
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In 2005, former Wolf Eye Aaron Dilloway left the renowned Michigan noise trio to live and record solo in Nepal. Since then, Dilloway's been doing... View details »
- Art: Fair
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Goffo
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Friday Apr 25 (11am–7pm) @ Merchandise Mart
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Does the mega-conglomerate of art fairs that is Artropolis seem a bit overwhelming? We'd say so. Not that you shouldn't check out the all-star dealers... View details »
- Film
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Baby Mama
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Friday Apr 25 @ Various locations
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With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team, most memorably as the SNL... View details »
- Art
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Strange Habit
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Friday Apr 25 (11am–5pm) @ I Space Gallery
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For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby — who incorporate unintentional elements... View details »
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David Hockney
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Friday Apr 25 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago
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David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based work, like pieced-together canvases... View details »
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- Art
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Gordon Matta-Clark
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Friday Apr 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 @ 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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Justin Cooper
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Friday Apr 25 (10am–6pm) @ Gallery 400
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Justin Cooper's installation is a combination of opposites: small-scale material creates large-scale sculpture, and conceptual performance art runs up against personal-space issues. Using tangles of... View details »
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Ken Fandell
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Friday Apr 25 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
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Unseen Current
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Friday Apr 25 (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 »
- Film
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The Visitor
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Friday Apr 25 @ 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 »
