All events on Wednesday June 25
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- Reading
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The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
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Wednesday June 25 (6pm) @ International House
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Grandmaster Flash's pioneering turntable techniques — which include cutting, backspinning, and mixing — helped birth hip-hop, and eventually earned him (and his group, the Furious... View details »
- Film
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The Muppet Movie
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Wednesday June 25 (12:15pm) @ Beverly Arts Center
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One of the most certifiably adorable films of all time, Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie set the gold standard for G-rated filmmaking. The Spaceballs-meets-Sesame Street... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Black Diamonds
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Wednesday June 25 (6pm) @ Chicago Public Library - Lozano
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Documentary Black Diamonds exposes one of the worst ongoing environmental disasters you've never heard of: mountaintop-removal mining. Preferred by the coal industry for its speed,... View details »
- Performing Arts
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Mortified
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Wednesday June 25 (8pm) @ The Green Mill
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The immensely popular, ever-expanding performance phenomenon known as Mortified — in which ordinary people excavate their most embarrassing adolescent artifacts on stage — returns to... View details »
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- Art
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Tony Fitzpatrick
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Wednesday June 25 (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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Jeff Koons
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Wednesday June 25 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in Heaven series includes photographs... View details »
- Film
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The Visitor
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Wednesday June 25 @ 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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Ladylike
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Wednesday June 25 (1–6pm) @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery
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In a post-third-wave landscape of mommy wars, Sex and the City fever, and continuous political upheaval, feminism is having a bit of an identity crisis.... View details »
- Film
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Son of Rambow
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Wednesday June 25 @ 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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Wednesday June 25 (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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Mark Booth
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Wednesday June 25 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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In the current installment of the UBS 12x12 series, Mark Booth presents drawings and paintings that combine text with biomorphic forms and recall both cellular... View details »
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Collecting for Chicago
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Wednesday June 25 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode — its world-class collection was... View details »
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Videodance
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Wednesday June 25 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival. The results of these... View details »
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Mario Ybarra, Jr.
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Wednesday June 25 (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 »
- Art
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Everyday People
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Wednesday June 25 (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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Jim Tansley
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Wednesday June 25 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both carefully structured and completely... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Ben Gest
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Wednesday June 25 (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 June 25 (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 »
- Film
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Refusenik
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Wednesday June 25 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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A chronicle of the 30-year international movement to free Soviet Jews, Refusenik is old-school — full of talking heads, historical footage, and blissfully, very little... View details »
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ISN'T IT
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Wednesday June 25 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery
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At first glance, ISN'T IT appears to be a loose collection of sculptures that brings modest materials to life. But the exhibition rewards close viewing,... View details »
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Shape-Shifters
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Wednesday June 25 (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 »
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Clouds, et al
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Wednesday June 25 (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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Boys of Summer
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Wednesday June 25 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche
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A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you don't know where to... View details »
