All events on Wednesday September 10
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I Was Born, But... (1932)
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Wednesday Sep 10 (6pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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Acclaimed Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's silent film I Was Born, But… begins as a charming, comical romp through suburban Japanese childhood in the early 1930s.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Keiji Haino
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Wednesday Sep 10 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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People have been saying that art is dead, punk is dead, rock is dead, music is dead, and pretty much everything else is dead since... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Buddy
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Wednesday Sep 10 (2 & 7:30pm) @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
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Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out conquered Broadway even though their books are, respectively, a silly romantic melodrama and a confused narrative told through dance. Their... View details »
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Jeff Koons
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Wednesday Sep 10 (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 »
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Collecting for Chicago
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Wednesday Sep 10 (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 »
- Film
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Tell No One
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Wednesday Sep 10 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (François Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
- Art
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Mónica Herrera: Strings
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Wednesday Sep 10 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and invites viewers to play... View details »
- Art
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Book and Paper Arts Triennial
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Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–6pm) @ Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts
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This juried triennial exhibition, dedicated to paper preservation and innovation in an increasingly paperless world, opens today at Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book &... View details »
- Art
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Art of Democracy
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Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–5pm) @ Loyola University Museum of Art
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Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history of disseminating ideas to... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Alec Soth
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Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
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In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a baby girl. During his... View details »
- Film
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Brideshead Revisited
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Wednesday Sep 10 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
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Bottle Shock
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Wednesday Sep 10 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small-vineyard... View details »
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XXY
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Wednesday Sep 10 @ Facets Cinémathèque
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If Ingmar Bergman had directed an Argentine movie about a pubescent hermaphrodite, the result might have been XXY. Alex is a wild-eyed teen who resides... View details »
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Angles in America
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Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
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You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the game for the exhibition's... View details »
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Are We There Yet?
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Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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Curated by photographer Dawoud Bey, Are We There Yet? is a group show of lens-based work that touches on issues of mobility. It's a timely... View details »
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Elegy
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Wednesday Sep 10 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Bill O'Donnell
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Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery
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Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views. This series, on display... View details »
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Conrad Freiburg
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Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5pm) @ Linda Warren Gallery
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Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist for its own sake... View details »
- Film
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Hamlet 2
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Wednesday Sep 10 @ Various locations
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With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
