All events on Friday May 30
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Erykah Badu
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Friday May 30 (7:30pm) @ The Chicago Theatre
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For the last few years, neo-soul priestess Erykah Badu has been off the pop-music grid, choosing to focus on her other passions: holistic health, astrology,... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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The Presets
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Friday May 30 (9pm) @ Abbey Pub
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The Sydney-based Presets lug their drums and keyboards halfway around the world to show off the follow-up to their 2005 electro-dance debut, Beams. Armed with... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Mudhoney
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Friday May 30 (9pm) @ Reggies Rock Club
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Flannel-driven slackertude attempts a comeback as grunge-metal mainstays Mudhoney hit the stage alongside sludge-happy headbangers Easy Action. Signed to Sub Pop in the label's early-'90s... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Firewater
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Friday May 30 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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After the disintegration of his industrial group Cop Shoot Cop in 1996, singer Tod A. started Firewater, an outfit that has, at one time or... View details »
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Love and Honor
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Friday May 30 @ Facets Cinémathèque
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He's directed over 70 films, but Yoji Yamada was virtually unknown outside Japan until 2002's Oscar-nominated Twilight Samurai. His new Love and Honor closely follows... View details »
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Constantine's Sword
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Friday May 30 @ Music Box Theatre
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Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
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Clouds, et al
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Friday May 30 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
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During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work of multiple artists. In... View details »
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Tony Fitzpatrick
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Friday May 30 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater in Downtown
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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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Friday May 30 (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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Jay Davis
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Friday May 30 (11am–6pm) @ Bucket Rider
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Brooklyn-based artist Jay Davis returns to Chicago with new paintings on vinyl. His colorful, mystical pieces are complex and full of life, vibrating with recurring... View details »
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Ken Fandell
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Friday May 30 (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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Friday May 30 @ 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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Maleonn and Brian Yates
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Friday May 30 (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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Friday May 30 @ 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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Friday May 30 @ 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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Son of Rambow
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Friday May 30 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
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Christa Donner
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Friday May 30 (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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Roman de Gare
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Friday May 30 @ Various locations
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Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
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Strange Habit
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Friday May 30 (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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Mario Ybarra, Jr.
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Friday May 30 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits of William Wrigley, Jr..... View details »
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Everyday People
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Friday May 30 (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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Friday May 30 (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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Friday May 30 (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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Reprise
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Friday May 30 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Joachim Trier deftly interweaves disparate themes, including ambition, love, punk rock, and the writer's life, in his debut feature-length film. Set in Oslo, Norway, Reprise... View details »
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Shape-Shifters
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Friday May 30 (10am–6pm) @ Alfedena Gallery
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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 »
