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Stitch 'n' Bitch
Tuesday May 27 (5:30–8pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Free
On the fourth Tuesday of each month, knitters of all stripes congregate in the airy, Takashi Murakami-wallpapered Puck's Café for a new-school, urban spin on... View details »
Stitch 'n' Bitch
Reading
Andy Austin
Tuesday May 27 (6pm) @ 57th Street Books
Free
For over four decades, Andy Austin has enjoyed front-row seats at some of the most important trials in Chicago's criminal history. With just a pad... View details »
Andy Austin

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Tuesday May 27 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater More times »
Free
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 »
Tony Fitzpatrick
Art: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Tuesday May 27 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11 young artists from Chicago's... View details »
Three Hours Between Planes
Art
Justin Cooper
Tuesday May 27 (10am–6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
Free
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 »
Justin Cooper
Art
Black Is Black Ain't
Tuesday May 27 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively hot. This large group... View details »
Black Is Black Ain't
Art
Ken Fandell
Tuesday May 27 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Ken Fandell
Art
Strange Habit
Tuesday May 27 (11am–5pm) @ I Space Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Strange Habit
Art
Everyday People
Tuesday May 27 (10am–5pm) @ estudiotres More times »
Free
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 »
Everyday People
Art
David Hockney
Tuesday May 27 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago More times »
Free
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 »
David Hockney
Art: Photography
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Tuesday May 27 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
Free
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic exhibition at City Gallery... View details »
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Art
Shape-Shifters
Tuesday May 27 (10am–6pm) @ Alfedena Gallery More times »
Free
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates the ways that familiar... View details »
Shape-Shifters
Art
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Tuesday May 27 (10am–5pm) @ Russell Bowman Fine Art More times »
Free
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their work at the Hyde... View details »
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Art: Architecture/Design
Design in the Age of Darwin
Tuesday May 27 (10am–5pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
Free
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we make of the canon-splitting... View details »
Design in the Age of Darwin