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Prints Charming
Tuesday Nov 25 (noon–12:45pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
The AIC may be best-known for its comprehensive collection of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings, but they haven't been on view since May, when the works... View details »
Prints Charming
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If Artists Ran the Media
Thursday Dec 4 (5–7pm) @ C33 Gallery at Columbia College Chicago More times »
Free
If artists ran the media, would Fox News actually be fair and balanced? And where would the voices of... n Hannity and Bill O'Reilly fit in?... View details »
If Artists Ran the Media

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Art: Photography
Made in Chicago
Friday Nov 21 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
For years, the photographic collection of Chicago's LaSalle Bank has been one of the small number of corporate art collections to rival museums. (Lucky for... View details »
Made in Chicago
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Deceptive Design
Friday Nov 21 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer is invariably yes. The... View details »
Deceptive Design
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Paint for Print
Friday Nov 21 (9am–5pm) @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago More times »
Free
It takes more than a tutorial in Adobe Illustrator to make someone an artist. Extraordinary computer design and illustration rely on the basics learned by... View details »
Paint for Print
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Jenny Holzer
Friday Nov 21 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Her art may blend in with Las Vegas-strip-style lighted advertisements, but Jenny Holzer's brightly colored Truisms and arresting catchphrases are unlike anything found on a... View details »
Jenny Holzer
Art: Photography
Doug and Mike Starn
Friday Nov 21 (10am–5pm) @ David Weinberg Gallery More times »
Free
Conventional wisdom has it that art and science don't get along. For years, artists/twins Mike and Doug Starn have been gracefully proving that notion wrong.... View details »
Doug and Mike Starn
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Regin Igloria
Friday Nov 21 (10am–5:30pm) @ Zg Gallery More times »
Free
With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both psychologically and as a... View details »
Regin Igloria
Art: Photography
Scott Fortino
Friday Nov 21 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
Free
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book Institutional, brings urban-landscape inquiries... View details »
Scott Fortino
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Francis Alÿs
Friday Nov 21 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work he often returns to... View details »
Francis Alÿs
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Displacement
Friday Nov 21 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it embodies China's hunger for... View details »
Displacement
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Josh Azzarella
Friday Nov 21 (10am–6pm) @ Kavi Gupta Gallery More times »
Free
Josh Azzarella's photographs and videos smolder with an eerie silence and a sense of emptiness. They are also faintly, unnervingly familiar. Most are manipulations of... View details »
Josh Azzarella
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Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Friday Nov 21 (10am–3pm) @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
Free
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example — the Spertus Institute has... View details »
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Friday Nov 21 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea of capturing "the decisive... View details »
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Friday Nov 21 (11am–5pm) @ Intuit More times »
Free
Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art that's found. Discarded Paintings... View details »
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
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Omer Fast
Friday Nov 21 (11am–6pm) @ Betty Rymer Gallery More times »
Free
Omer Fast rightly grabbed the grand prize at the 2008 Whitney Biennial for The Casting, a challenging four-screen video piece that interweaves two divergent stories... View details »
Omer Fast
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Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant
Friday Nov 21 (4–7pm) @ Roots & Culture More times »
Free
Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant's joint exhibition coyly takes the guise of a domestic scene — furniture positioned appropriately, paintings hung like home decor... View details »
Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant
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From the Arctic to the Prairie
Friday Nov 21 (noon–6pm) @ Golden More times »
Free
Helsinki-born, Spain-based Riiko Sakkinen's work appeals to hungry global palates, offering a witty update of the pop-art aesthetic. Stealing source materials such as Russian prostitute... View details »
From the Arctic to the Prairie
Art: Photography
Michael Wolf
Friday Nov 21 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
Free
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a residency spent documenting the... View details »
Michael Wolf
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Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Friday Nov 21 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago More times »
Free
Though it's cited as a seminal example of installation art, Marcel Broodthaers imagined his late work Décor: A Conquest (1975) as both film set and... View details »
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Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
Friday Nov 21 (11am–6pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past year. The artist appears... View details »
Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
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Karen Lebergott and Edra Soto
Friday Nov 21 (11am–5pm) @ Rowland Contemporary More times »
Free
For Karen Lebergott, mapping is a conceptual departure point that sets off multiple trajectories. Her oil paintings suggest Chinese landscapes or city plans stacked up... View details »
Karen Lebergott and Edra Soto
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The Exquisite City
Friday Nov 21 @ Viaduct Theater More times »
Free
A cardboard city has sprung up inside the Viaduct Theater in Roscoe Village, but it isn't the set for a play. It's an exhibition featuring... View details »
The Exquisite City
Art: Photography
Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
Saturday Nov 22 (11am–6pm) @ Dan Devening Project+Editions More times »
Free
Michael Pfisterer's recent photographs collect multiple views of 19th-century mathematical models on single large sheets of white paper, depicting these varied perspectives as stacks of... View details »
Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
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Barbara Hashimoto
Saturday Nov 22 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St More times »
Free
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 »
Barbara Hashimoto