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Film
La Haine
Wednesday June 4 (8pm) @ Block Cinema
Free
Transporting Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) to the French banlieues, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine (Hate) wowed the 1995 Cannes festival with its unflinching portrait of racial... View details »
La Haine

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Wednesday June 4 (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 4 (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
Black Is Black Ain't
Wednesday June 4 (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
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Wednesday June 4 (11am–5pm) @ Kasia Kay Art Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Wednesday June 4 (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 4 (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: Photography
Ben Gest
Wednesday June 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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
Wednesday June 4 (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 4 (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
Art
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Wednesday June 4 (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
Wednesday June 4 (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