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Reading
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (6pm) @ International House
Free
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 »
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
Film: Documentary
Black Diamonds
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (6pm) @ Chicago Public Library - Lozano
Free
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 »
More Flavor: Discussion
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (7–8pm) @ Quimby's Bookstore
Free
Joined by husband and recent collaborator Matt Madden, underground comic artist Jessica Abel returns to Chicago to discuss a slew of recent releases. La Perdida... View details »
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (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
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (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
Ladylike
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (1–6pm) @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Ladylike
Art
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Walsh Gallery More times »
Free
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999, the curator and scholar... View details »
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Art
Videodance
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
Free
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 »
Videodance
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Free
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 »
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Art
Everyday People
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (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
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Richard Gray Gallery More times »
Free
At 81, Alex Katz has only recently emerged as one of America's major contemporary artists. The Richard Gray Gallery shows why the artist's profile has... View details »
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Art
Jim Tansley
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
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 »
Jim Tansley
Art: Photography
Ben Gest
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Ben Gest
Art
David Hockney
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (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
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (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
ISN'T IT
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
ISN'T IT
Art
Shape-Shifters
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (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
Clouds, et al
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Clouds, et al
More Flavor: City Gem
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (7:30am–7:30pm) @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool More times »
Free
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance to the Alfred Caldwell... View details »
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
More Flavor: City Gem
Flower Power
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (9am–5pm) @ Garfield Park Conservatory More times »
Free
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little more spacious and herbaceous,... View details »
Flower Power
Art
Boys of Summer
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
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 »
Boys of Summer
Art
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (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: Photography
Beyond the Backyard
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
Free
Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much by postmodern thinkers as... View details »
Art: Architecture/Design
Design in the Age of Darwin
Wednesday June 25, 2008 (10am–8pm) @ 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