Events on Tuesday, September 22
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- Reading
- A.J. Jacobs
- @ Borders
- Like a conceptual daredevil (or a non-grating Morgan Spurlock), A.J. Jacobs hurls himself into extended, uber-demanding feats for our vicarious pleasure.... View details »
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- Art
- John Stezaker
- @ Richard Gray Gallery
- It seems so simple at first: cut or combine salvaged old photographs. John Stezaker has used variants of this method since... View details »
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- Film
- It Might Get Loud
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- You can imagine it started with a big idea: get three guitar gods in the same room and let them talk... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Luis Gispert
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Luis Gispert got the art world's attention by retooling elements of street culture and proposing that hip-hop is today's Baroque. However,... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Jeff Parker
- @ Rodan
- If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a... View details »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- MCA Farmers Market
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Art stimulates the mind, but the Museum of Contemporary Art gives the stomach something to enjoy, too. Every Tuesday through October,... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- No Impact Man
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man... View details »
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- Art
- Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
- @ Gallery 400
- Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
- @ The Renaissance Society
- Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus... View details »
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- Music: Global
- World Music Festival 2009
- @ Various locations
- As diverse as the big-ticket summer festivals are, few unite the diaspora quite like Chicago's World Music Festival. The week-long gala... View details »
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- Art
- Freaks & Flash
- @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- Freaks & Flash will explore the roots of modern Western tattooing with a selection of tattoo flash (the design drawings for... View details »
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- Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Our usual introductions to the history of 20th-century art tend to lean on certain narratives — the subversive march of the... View details »
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- Elizabeth Murray
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- In the early '80s, Elizabeth Murray started "making paintings that would blow up into the space," a breakthrough she later recalled... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Chicago Model City
- @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
- As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- Zarina Bhimji: Out of Blue
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji returned to Uganda, her childhood home, to shoot this gorgeous, mournful short film. As Out of... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- Art: Photography
- Hiroshi Watanabe
- @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
- In Hiroshi Watanabe's best-known photograph, a small figure scales a dramatic web of arcing poles beneath a gray sky. At the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jersey Boys
- @ Bank of America Theatre
- The Chicago theater scene has been blessed of late with a raft of high-quality jukebox musicals: the Black Ensemble Theater showcased... View details »
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- Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Believers in the classic power of large-scale oil painting, Robert Davis and Michael Langlois work collaboratively to give the venerable art... 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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- Robyn O'Neil: On Sinking
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- Black skies, ashen snow, and solitude: these are the ingredients of a fading world. In painstakingly rendered graphite drawings, Robyn O'Neil... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Harry Potter: The Exhibition
- @ Museum of Science and Industry
- Raised eyebrows and a few chuckles greeted the 1990s announcement that an exhibit of Star Wars movie memorabilia would tour such... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- Cy Twombly
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fake
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by... 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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- Bertha Honoré Palmer
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion... View details »
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- Henry Moore: Elephant Skull
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- In the late 1960s the British artist Henry Moore received an unusual gift—the skull of an African elephant. This exhibition highlights... View details »
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- Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
- @ Renaissance Society
- The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other... View details »
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- Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time.... View details »
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