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Tiffany Dome Project
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Wednesday May 21 (6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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The Chicago Cultural Center is one of the city's architectural gems, with charms including the world's largest Louis Comfort Tiffany-designed glass dome. A full restoration... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Old Haunts
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Wednesday May 21 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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On the new Poisonous Times, the Old Haunts carry on the proud tradition of Pacific Northwest garage rock. Their third record for Kill Rock Stars... View details »
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Tony Fitzpatrick
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Wednesday May 21 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater
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Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially Chicago. This exhibition comprises... View details »
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Justin Cooper
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Wednesday May 21 (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 »
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The Visitor
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Wednesday May 21 @ 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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Dark Matter
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Wednesday May 21 @ Facets Cinémathèque
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Dark Matter, a film about the fraught power dynamics of higher academia, flounders when its storytelling reflects the ideological absolutism that it maligns. But for... View details »
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Maleonn and Brian Yates
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Wednesday May 21 (11am–5pm) @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
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The term "visual artist" is a relatively vague one, but it's a dead-on description of Shanghai's Maleonn; his work demands a general characterization, anyhow, not... View details »
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Baby Mama
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Wednesday May 21 @ 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 »
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Redbelt
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Wednesday May 21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a Jiu-Jitsu studio, but refuses to participate in competitions — which he believes compromise the martial art's principles.... View details »
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Jellyfish
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Wednesday May 21 @ Music Box Theatre
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Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
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Mike Ness
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Wednesday May 21 (8pm) @ Park West
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Social Distortion frontman and punk-rock vet Mike Ness brings his newly swamp-rocking sound and copious tattoos to town for a solo set. Ness formed Social... View details »
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The Witnesses
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Wednesday May 21 @ Music Box Theatre
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The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris around 1984. But, as... View details »
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Christa Donner
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Wednesday May 21 (10am–4pm) @ International Museum of Surgical Science
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For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays of bizarre artifacts and... View details »
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Strange Habit
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Frau Fiber
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Wednesday May 21 @ Various locations
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Artist/activist Frau Fiber's investigation of the history and global politics of the garment industry is the latest installment in Gallery 400's At the Edge: Innovative... View details »
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Everyday People
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Wednesday May 21 (10am–5pm) @ estudiotres
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Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People at estudiotres in Chicago's... View details »
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Ben Gest
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Wednesday May 21 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
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Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina Barney, and Alec Soth... View details »
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David Hockney
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Wednesday May 21 (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 »
