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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Speechless
@
The Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Opening Wednesday, February 29th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
The World Finder, an Epic Tragedy in Four Acts
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Wednesday, February 29th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
In The Spirit of Walser
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Donald Young Gallery and Goethe-Institute Chicago
224 S Michigan Avenue and 150 North Michigan Ave, Suite 200
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Kate Bowen: Almost Always Getting it Right
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, February 27th
More or Less
@
RoxaBoxen Exhibitions
2130 W 21st Street, Chicago 60608
Opening Sunday, February 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
Performance by David Grubbs and Susan Howe: Frolic Architecture David Grubbs and Susan Howe
@
The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Avenue, 4th floor
Opening Sunday, February 26th, at 7PM
Hashbrown
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Spudnik Press
1821 West Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Robin Kang: Cry, or Don’t
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The Milk Factory
907 N. Winchester Ave. Rear Apt. (enter through gate)
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
Three Vertices
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LVL3
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 25th
Auntie Em’s Mobile Home
@
slow
2153 W 21st Street
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 17th
Bright Lights, Big City: The Art of Modernism in Japanese Woodblock Prints
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Floating World Gallery
1925 N. Halsted St.
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 1PM - 3PM
Re-opening Celebration
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Alderman Exhibitions
1138 W Randolph
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
PLAY!
@
Believe Inn
2043 N Winchester Ave, Chicago, IL. 60614
Opening Friday, February 24th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 14th
Form Fit: Lisa Dorin
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Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Domestic Spaces, Alternative Venues and Artists as Collectors
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Fine Arts Center Gallery at Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N St Louise Ave, Chicago Il 60625
Opening Thursday, February 23rd, from 3PM - 5:30PM
On view through Friday, March 16th
Art21 Season 6 Advance Screening
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Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Wednesday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Michelle Anne Harris: Accidents of Gravity
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, February 20th
Honk If You Love Painting
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Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Ave. Oak Park, IL
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, March 16th
Anna Kunz: Honk If You Love Painting
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Terrain
704 Highland Ave. Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, March 16th
Curatorial Talk with Bisi Silva
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Doukan 7002
7002 N. California (at Lunt)
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 5PM - 6PM
Michelle Anne Harris: Accidents of Gravity
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Sunday, February 19th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, February 20th
Florida Oasis Pt. 3
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Logan Square Comfort Station
2579 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 18th, from 8 PM - 10:30 PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Magalie Guérin: The Warmest Guest
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Autumn Space Gallery
1700 Irving Park #207
Opening Saturday, February 18th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 10th
Hits Close to Home
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The Chicago Artist Coalition
217 N. Carpenter Chicago , IL 60607
Opening Friday, February 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, March 6th
Living By Example
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Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center
550 N St. Louise Chicago IL 60625
Opening Friday, February 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 16th
Tom Walther: Intersections
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Doukan 7002
7002 N. California (at Lunt)
Opening Thursday, February 16th, from 6.30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
Solo exhibition: Many years after, on a sunny afternoon
@
UIC art lounge, student center west
828south Wolcott
Opening Thursday, February 16th, from 4 PM - 7 PM
On view through Thursday, March 15th
UIC Exhibition: Many Years After, On a Sunny Afternoon
@
Art Lounge, Student Center West, UIC
828 South Wolcott, Chicago,Illinois
Opening Thursday, February 16th, from 4 PM - 7 PM
On view through Thursday, March 15th
Marina Abramovic: A Lecture on Performance and Its Future
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First United Methodist Church at The Chicago Temple
77 West Washington Street Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, February 16th, from 6PM - 7PM
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Opening Wednesday, February 15th, from 7:30 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, June 10th
Opening Reception: Feast
@
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Opening Wednesday, February 15th, from 7:30 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, June 10th
All Tomorrow’s Cities
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Monday, February 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Fatima Haider & Lourdes Correa-Carlo
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Julius Caesar
3311 W. Carroll Ave.
Opening Sunday, February 12th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
James Green: Beta Eyes
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street, Chicago, IL
Opening Sunday, February 12th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, February 13th
Lecture by Marsha Bentley Hale: Mannequin Mystique
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The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Avenue, 4th floor
Opening Sunday, February 12th, at 2PM
Min Song: Small-Scale Lifestyles 2
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Happy Collaborationists
1254 N. Noble, Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, February 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
Meet Martin Creed
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 11th, from 3 PM - 4:30 PM
On view through Monday, December 31st
Monster Movie Seminar
@
Hinge Gallery
1955 West Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 11th, from 8PM - 10PM
Cathy Wilkes: I Give You All My Money Gallery Tour
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The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Avenue, 4th floor
Opening Saturday, February 11th, at 1PM
ReBirth
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DEFIBRILLATOR
1136 N Milwaukee Ave.
Opening Friday, February 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, February 11th
Heidi Norton: Reasons to Cut Into the Earth
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Johalla Projects
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 110, Chicago 60622
Opening Friday, February 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, February 29th
“Isaz: Ice is bark of rivers” Aron Gent, Nick Ostoff, Sophia Rauch
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The Hills Esthetic Center
128 N. Campbell Ave. Chicago IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 4th
Artist Talk: AA Bronson
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University of Chicago
Classics Building, Rm. 110, 1010 E. 59 St., Chicago IL
Opening Friday, February 10th, at 4:30PM
McPARLANE: APOCALYPSE IN THE PLEASURE GARDENS
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NEW CAPITAL
3114 W. Carroll St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 10th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, February 10th
Short Court: Tropical Aesthletics
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Antena
1765 S. Laflin St., Chicago IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 10th
Quad Core
@
What It Is
23 E. Madison, Chicago IL 60602
Opening Thursday, February 9th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 10th
Poems and Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946-1981)
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The Center for Book & Paper Arts
1104 S Wabash, 2nd Fl, Chicago
Opening Thursday, February 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
Cupola Bobber: The Field, The Mantel (Exhibition)
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Adds Donna
4223 W. Lake
Opening Sunday, February 5th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, March 11th
Lecture by Dennis King Keenan: Irigaray and the Sacrifice of Sacrifice
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The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Avenue, 4th floor
Opening Sunday, February 5th, at 2PM
Alice Feldt: I’d Languish in Your Dust
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St
Opening Sunday, February 5th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, February 6th
Rebecca Beachy: Ground
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Roxaboxen Exhibitions
2130 W 21st Street, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, February 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 11th
Form Over Function
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Peanut Gallery
1000 N. California Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 5th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, February 28th
Florida Oasis
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Logan Square Comfort Station
2579 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 4th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Jon Waites: Radical, Work
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PEREGRINEPROGRAM
3311 W Carroll Ave. #119
Opening Saturday, February 4th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, March 4th
Inaugural Exhibition
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 1220, Chicago Il 60603
Opening Saturday, February 4th, from 12 PM - 7 PM
On view through Thursday, March 1st
Scott Wolniak
@
Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 4th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 17th
Issuing Forth
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Robert Bills Contemporary
222 N. Desplaines St., Lower Level
Opening Friday, February 3rd, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Negative Joy
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Ave.
Opening Friday, February 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 17th
Montgomery Kim: Once We Were Giants
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Johalla Projects
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 110, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, February 2nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, February 6th
Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker J.J. Murphy
@
The Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Opening Thursday, February 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
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