Events on Wednesday, May 14
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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 » View details »
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- Tony Fitzpatrick
- @ Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Theater
- Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
- What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we... View details » View details »
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- Christa Donner
- @ International Museum of Surgical Science
- For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays... View details » View details »
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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 » 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 » 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 » 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 » View details »
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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 » 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 » View details »
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- More Flavor: Tour
- The Destruction and Looting of Iraq's Past
- @ The Oriental Institute
- Curator Katharyn Hanson leads a lunchtime tour of the Oriental Institute's ongoing exhibit Catastrophe!, which explores the devastating effect that the... View details » View details »
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- Film
- The Third Man
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Whether or not it's a "true noir" is a debate we'll leave to the online message boards — but good luck... View details » View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- At the Death House Door
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- In the wrong hands, Steve James' Hoop Dreams and Stevie could've been rote fodder for ESPN or Dateline — instead, they... View details » View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Talent Show
- @ Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
- The Talent Show is, as you might expect, an eclectic, old-fashioned variety show in which the audience votes for its favorite... View details » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 9 Parts of Desire
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Male perspectives dominate public dialogue about the Iraq War (about most wars, in fact). Smothered in praise since its 2003 UK... View details » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- American Moderns
- @ Auditorium Theatre
- Last we checked, high-modernist dance peaked at 1972's Stravinsky Festival, and what followed hasn't improved much with age — which makes... View details » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- [SOLD OUT] Flight of the Conchords
- @ The Chicago Theatre
- If you consider brushing your teeth part of foreplay, chances are you're familiar with "Business Time" — the intense two-minute form... View details » View details »
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- It's a Free World...
- @ Beverly Arts Center
- British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism.... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Then She Found Me
- @ Various locations
- Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Frau Fiber
- @ Various locations
- Artist/activist Frau Fiber's investigation of the history and global politics of the garment industry is the latest installment in Gallery 400's... View details » View details »
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- Redbelt
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a Jiu-Jitsu studio, but refuses to participate in competitions — which he believes compromise... View details » View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Smart Home
- @ Museum Campus
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... View details » View details »
