<em>Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)</em>

Art: Installation

Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)

Today @ Gallery 400

Despite how Gallery 400 frames the show, Spectral Landscapes is less a coherent study of artists whose work is about color... 

<em>The MeMo Organization Cabinet</em>

Art: Multimedia

The MeMo Organization Cabinet

Today @ Chicago Cultural Center

A companion exhibition to the death-themed Morbid Curiosity, "speculative designer" Jessica Charlesworth presents The MeMo Organization Cabinet, "MeMo" being short for... 

Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance

Art: Photography

Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance

Today @ Columbia College Chicago

The exhibition Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance looks at human conflict and the ways individuals and groups endure long-term hardship. The fourteen international... 

<em>Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection</em>

Art: Group Show

Morbid Curiosity

Today @ Chicago Cultural Center

Morbid Curiosity looks death straight in the eye in the sprawling exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center that includes about 1,000... 

Arturo Herrera: <em>Series</em>

Art: Painting & Drawing

Arturo Herrera

Today @ Corbett vs Dempsey

One of the masters of contemporary collage, Arturo Herrera has a long history in Chicago, where he lived, studied (MFA, U.I.C.),... 

Dawoud Bey

Art: Photography

Dawoud Bey

Today @ Renaissance Society

Since 1975, Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture as means for... 

<em>R&D</em>

Art: Group Show

R&D

Today @ Manifold

Manifold may be Chicago's newest gallery and is certainly one to continue watching. It opens its doors with R&D, a group... 

Laura Letinsky at Leopold

Art: Photography

Laura Letinsky at Leopold

Today @ Leopold

Laura Letinsky's photographs of remnants of eaten meals that include dishes and wine stains atop white table cloths, most often appear... 

<em>Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing</em>

Art: Group Show

Pulled

Monday 5/28 @ Public Works Gallery

Screen printing is a utilitarian production technique. It exists, first and foremost, as an engine of mass production. Defined by repetition,... 

Downtown Sound: Kelly Hogan w/ Scott Lucas & the Married Men

Music: Country

Scott Lucas & the Married Men

Monday 5/28 @ Millennium Park

Forget graduation parties and Memorial Day weekend cookouts; for us, the signpost that summer has arrived is the annual Downtown Sound... 

HATCH MATCH

Art

HATCH MATCH

Thursday 5/31 @ Chicago Artists' Coalition

The Chicago Artists' Coalition, (CAC), invites you to meet other creatives and learn about our HATCH Projects program by attending a... 

Lisa Alvarado: <em>Limpia</em>

Art: Painting & Drawing

Lisa Alvarado

Friday 6/ 1 @ Soccer Club Club

The amorphous, goopily factile forms in Lisa Alvarado's paintings suggest movement, light, and perhaps most effectively, a sense of decomposition and... 

Funding and Creating Your Independent Projects: Propeller and Beyond All-Day Workshop

Workshop/Class: Art

Funding and Creating Your Independent Projects: Propeller and Beyond All-Day Workshop

Saturday 6/ 2 @ Gallery 400

Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago and threewalls announce the third year of Propeller Fund granting opportunities for... 

Big Dig Gig!

Art: Happening

Big Dig Gig!

Saturday 6/ 2 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center invites you to join the Big Dig Gig with residency project “General Economy, Exquisite Exchange.” This free... 

Closet Clearance Sale

Special Event: Fundraisers

Closet Clearance Sale

Saturday 6/ 2 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

Our most fashionable fundraiser, this pop-up store includes the sale of new and gently used women's clothing and accessories. Some of...