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VONZWECK
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Thursday Sep 4 (6pm) @ VONZWECK at the Barn
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Guerrilla galleries and living-room art spaces used to thrive in Chicago, but the ranks have thinned in recent years. Since 2005, artist/curator Philip von Zweck's... View details »
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Alec Soth
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Friday Sep 5 (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 »
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Conrad Freiburg
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Friday Sep 5 (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 »
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Angles in America
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Friday Sep 5 (5–7:30pm) @ 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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Art of Democracy
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Saturday Sep 6 (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 »
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Mónica Herrera: Strings
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Friday Aug 29 (9am–5pm) @ 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 »
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Jeff Koons
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Friday Aug 29 (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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Daniel Traub
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Friday Aug 29 (10am–5:30pm) @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
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... China becomes a major player in global culture, attention shifts towards its booming cities. In a new series of photographs, Daniel Traub looks farther... View details »
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Bill O'Donnell
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Friday Aug 29 (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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Book and Paper Arts Triennial
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Friday Aug 29 (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 »
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Howard Henry Chen
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Friday Aug 29 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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Howard Henry Chen's exhibition at the MCA is made up of just four artworks — a photographic triptych and three sculptural ensembles — but that's... View details »
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Are We There Yet?
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Friday Aug 29 (10am–5pm) @ 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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Collecting for Chicago
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Friday Aug 29 (10:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
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Jay Davis
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–6pm) @ Bucket Rider
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Brooklyn-based artist Jay Davis returns to Chicago with new paintings on vinyl. His colorful, mystical pieces are complex and full of life, vibrating with recurring... View details »
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Barbara Hashimoto
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Saturday Aug 30 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St
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A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it's a... View details »
