Events on Wednesday, April 30
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- Reading
- Jimmy Carter
- @ Borders
- Drawing the ire of the Anti-Defamation League and grammar snobs alike, Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid became a bestseller despite... View details »
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- Experiment in Terror
- @ Doc Films
- Blake Edwards' name is so often associated with farce, it's easy to forget that the director followed 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's... View details »
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- Steven Greenhouse: The Big Squeeze
- @ Harold Washington Library
- While Barack Obama's recent characterization of blue-collar workers as "bitter" is still making waves, few actually discuss the economic difficulties faced... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- A Midwest Brewmasters Dinner
- @ Uncommon Ground
- In this fast-paced world, it takes a pretty good reason for people to stop and smell the roses — for Chicagoans,... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art
- 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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- 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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OngoingFree
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- Film
- 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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- The Visitor
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... View details »
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- Eli Robb
- @ threewalls
- Chicago-based artist Eli Robb's life was going swimmingly — until his house and studio caught fire and burned to the ground.... View details »
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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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- Strange Habit
- @ I Space Gallery
- For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —... 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Three Hours Between Planes
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11... 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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- Ken Fandell
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble... View details »
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- David Hockney
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based... View details »
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- Justin Cooper
- @ Gallery 400
- 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... View details »
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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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- Black Is Black Ain't
- @ The Renaissance Society
- The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Bomb It
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey... View details »
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- Baby Mama
- @ Various locations
- With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team, most... View details »
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- Mark Wagner
- @ Western Exhibitions
- In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Ben Gest
- @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
- Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina... View details »
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