Events on Thursday, March 5
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- Dan Graham
- @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
- An important figure in contemporary art since the 1960s, Dan Graham has used a variety of media and methods throughout his... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Asobi Seksu
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Asobi Seksu's third album, Hush, sees the Brooklynites branching out from shoegaze roots to emit fully-honed dream-pop. Their name derives from... View details »
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- Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
- @ Hyde Park Art Center
- Once a heavy-industry mecca, now a service-industry hub, Chicago has a changing industrial history that's ripe for artistic examination. Painter Andy... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Arab-Israeli Cookbook
- @ Storefront Theater
- Interweaving the diverse voices of more than 40 characters, this stage production of playwright Robin Soans's The Arab-Israeli Cookbook offers an... View details »
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- Graceland Cemetery
- @ Graceland Cemetery
- Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled... View details »
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- Prairie Avenue House Museums
- @ Glessner House Museum
- Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... View details »
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- Sigmar Polke
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- One of the giants of post-war painting, Sigmar Polke is an irreverant experimentalist — an artist of many moves whose work... View details »
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- Film
- Frost/Nixon
- @ AMC River East 21
- Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977... View details »
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- Von Kommanivanh
- @ Walsh Gallery
- In large mixed-media paintings, Von Kommanivanh skewers the lurking evils and cultural convulsions of the 21st century like a hopped-up shish-kabob... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Waltz With Bashir
- @ Various locations
- Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- America: All Better!
- @ The Second City
- The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Polaroids: Mapplethorpe
- @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
- The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Wait Until Dark
- @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
- In a time of creeping horrors like war, recession, terrorism and Bernie Madoff, there's perverse satisfaction to be gleaned from a... View details »
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- Anne Chu
- @ Donald Young Gallery
- New York-based artist Anne Chu's drawings, prints, and sculptures conjure mythology reminiscent of Kiki Smith. Bear Head (all works 2008), cast... View details »
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- Mary Lou Zelazny
- @ Hyde Park Art Center
- Spanning nearly 30 years, the skillful paintings in Mary Lou Zelazny's mid-career retrospective center on a cast of weird creatures, shapely... View details »
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- Richard Colman
- @ Phaiz
- Richard Colman's star is on the rise, thanks in part to eye-catching exhibitions with fellow artists who grew up on graffiti... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Coats for Cubs
- @ Buffalo Exchange locations
- Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will... View details »
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- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance... View details »
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- Revolutionary Road
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,... View details »
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- Becoming Edvard Munch
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Although blockbuster exhibitions often reaffirm melodramatic clichés about tragic artists, the Art Institute of Chicago attempts a "myth-busting" show with Becoming... View details »
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- Gomorrah
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Complex mob-flick Gomorrah shows the realities and ironies that many conventional mafia films only romanticize. The drama, based on Robert Saviano's... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Chicago International Movies and Music Festival
- @ Various locations
- This five-day celebration of movies about music — including concert films, documentaries, music videos, and shorts — is the brainchild of... View details »
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- Paul Chan
- @ The Renaissance Society
- Artist Paul Chan may well be one of the wittiest and most astute political commentators of our time. The Renaissance Society... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Million Dollar Quartet
- @ Apollo Theater
- In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the... View details »
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- Chic Chicago
- @ Chicago History Museum
- In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the... View details »
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- Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons
- @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
- Cuban political artist and performer Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons' newest exhibition seeks to uncover hidden truths and secret knowledge with large-scale Polaroid... View details »
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- The End of Analog
- @ Roots & Culture
- (Broadcast) television is dead. Long live (digital) television. Curator Eric Fleischauer has assembled The End of Analog, an exhibition at Roots... View details »
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- Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Collaborative artists Robert Davis and Michael Langlois reconfigure their LA show of the same name for a three-month stint in the... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into... View details »
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- Justin Cooper
- @ Monique Meloche
- Artist Justin Cooper is both a madcap performer and a maker of objects, frequently interweaving the two endeavors. We may not... View details »
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- Milk
- @ Various locations
- Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... View details »
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- McCormick Tribune Ice Rink
- @ Millennium Park
- A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Milk in the Land
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- Milk in the Land, an inventively historicized documentary, unearths the sundry political, moral, and scientific platforms that got milk to its... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Steppenwolf presents Art
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- If your best friend spent a fortune on an all-white painting you hated, could you bite your tongue and praise it,... View details »
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- PhotoDimensional
- @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
- In PhotoDimensional, photography becomes sculptural through Heather Mekkelson's recreations of disaster photographs; lifelike in Bettina Hoffmann's video rotating around a still... View details »
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- The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
- @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- An exhibition of Joseph Yoakum’s visionary landscapes, curated by Mark Pascale, caretaker of Whitney Halstead’s collection bequeathed to the Art Institute... View details »
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