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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
CCTV: Club Chicago Television
@
Reunion Chicago
Online
Opening Saturday, October 31st, from 6PM - 12AM
Dia de los Muertos
@
Dragonfly Gallery
2436 W Madison St, C-1, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 31st, from 6PM - 10
On view through Sunday, November 22nd
ENTRECUERPOS
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IlL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 31st, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 6th
(a legacy) on our own terms
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 31st, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 6th
Kristin McWharter: RA RA
@
Langer Over Dickie Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, October 31st, at 5
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Night Garden
@
Hans Gallery
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 31st, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 28th
Canceled: James Kao: ABOLISH WHITENESS NOW
@
FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave Suite 220 Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 31st, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 6th
Anthony Iacuzzi: Polytonal: A Visual Monograph of Chicago Architecture
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Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Liberating History – Inherited Memory (Habibi Collective Shorts II)
@
The Block Museum
Online
Opening Friday, October 30th, at 7 PM
On view through Saturday, October 31st
Shannon Lee on Bruce Lee’s Legacy
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Friday, October 30th, from 12PM - 1PM
Screaming: A Makeup Tutorial
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, October 30th, at 7PM
Screaming: A Spooky-Queer Party
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, October 30th, from 7PM - 9PM
Anthony Iacuzzi: Polytonal: A Visual Monograph of Chicago Architecture
@
Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Kurt Kramer: Retrographs
@
Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Urban History Seminar
@
Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Am I Man Enough?: Stories on Toxic Masculinity
@
Center on Halsted
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Thursday, October 29th, at 7:30PM
Alicia Garza on the Purpose of Power
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Chuquimarca presents “Tanda”
@
Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Club de Lectura #1: Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
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Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Liberating History – Present Futures (Habibi Collective Shorts I)
@
The Block Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, at 7 PM
On view through Friday, October 30th
FIRST LOOK: Fine Print Party
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Shaping the Past: Future Memory
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Goethe-Institut Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 4:30PM - 5:30PM
Club de Lectura #1: Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
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Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 7PM - 7:45PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
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Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Chicago Neighborhood Check-In: Arts and Neighborhood Development
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Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 7PM - 8PM
Zine Workshop With Julia Arredondo
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Art Design Chicago Now
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 11am - 12:15PM
23rd Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writers’ Conference 2020
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Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University
Online
On view through Tuesday, October 20th
Lecture in Photography: Kristine Potter
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
Work-in-Progress: Disability and Access in Movement Building
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
This is America: Truths through My Body
@
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
One Night Stand: Bill Traylor
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 6:30PM - 7PM
Chicago Art Library Virtual Gallery and Charity Art Auction
@
The Chicago Art Library
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Voices: Mendi + Keith Obadike
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Gallery 400
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 27th, at 6PM
Ebony G. Patterson
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 27th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Curatorial Talks: Elizabeth Smith and Terry R. Myers
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Mana Contemporary
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 27th, from 2PM - 3PM
Option: Zeena Parkins
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, October 26th, at 8PM
Chicagoland Shorts: Live with Sarah Clark and Jiayu Yang
@
Mana Contemporary
Online
Opening Monday, October 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Sunday, October 25th, at 2PM
Get It Together
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Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, October 25th, from 9AM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, January 21st
Snafu, Shitshow, Clusterfuck
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Julius Caesar
3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, October 25th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, January 8th
Kelly Kristin Jones: in time and paradise
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FlexSpace: Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
On view through Saturday, November 28th
Virtual Tour | Bronzeville: The First Black Business Corridor
@
Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 4PM - 5PM
Banner Build Wkshps For The Movement
@
PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Saturday, October 24th, at 10AM
Art&Edibles
@
Pilsen Art House
1756 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 4PM - 9PM
Kapwani Kiwanga, Bronwyn Katz, Romi Crawford
@
Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 3PM - 4PM
a canary torsi: Last Audience: a performance manual
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Saturday, October 24th, at 2PM
NEW WORKS
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, October 24th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
Howard Fonda: the message or the messenger
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, December 5th
Em Kettner: Play the Fool
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, December 5th
Miles Chumley: Controlled Chaos with A Splash of Life
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West Loop Dot Gallery
1015 W Fulton Market, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 2PM - 8PM
Launch
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SAIC Galleries
33 East Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Tuesday, November 24th
Renluka Maharaj: Pelting Mangoes
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave. Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Marie-Claude Marquis: New Work + Sean Hannaway: It’ll Get Worse Before It Gets Worse Than Before
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
FEK Draw Live
@
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6;30PM - 9:30PM
Mercy in the Museum: Online Collection Tours
@
Block Museum
Online
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 12PM - 12:30PM
Melissa Stern: Does She or Doesn’t She?
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Firecat Projects
2019 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 11th
Glitter and Grain
@
LATITUDE
Online
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Martha Wade: we are the black gold of the sun
@
Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 20th
Conversations With the Curators: What Does Democracy Look Like? (Part II)
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, at 6PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, at 8PM
My America: Shay Bravo
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American Writers Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Getting Around Carbon: New Looks at Transportation Options
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, October 30th
Experimental Sound Studio w/ Kamau Patton
@
Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Liberating History: Fatma 75
@
Block Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, at 7 PM
On view through Friday, October 23rd
Chicago Zine Culture Roundtable: From the First Queer Zine Fest to Now
@
Art Design Chicago Now
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Rebecca Beachy: growing down: Aritst Talk
@
Roman Susan
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
The History of Art & Feminism: “Where the Future Came From”
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Artist Talk: Arkee Chaney
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Spinning Home Movies: Episode 12 with Leslé Honoré
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South Side Home Movie Project
Online
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, at 7PM
Queer Trivia Night
@
LATITUDE
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
October Virtual Reading
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Guild Literary Complex
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 21st, from 7PM - 8PM
Virtual Tour | Pilsen Murals
@
Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 20th, from 4PM - 5PM
Eighth Blackbird Presents The Chicago Artists Workshop: Karim Sulayman
@
Eighth Blackbird
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 20th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, October 20th
Voices: Tonika Johnson
@
Gallery 400
Online
Opening Tuesday, October 20th, at 6PM
Meshell Ndegeocello: Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Alejandro T. Acierto & Allana Clarke: What Lies Beneath is Already on the Surface
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Langer Over Dickie
On view through Thursday, December 31st
Echoes In Rain
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Music Box Orchestra with Sadie Woods
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 12PM - 2Pm
Echoes In Rain
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 20th
5th Wave Collective
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Deirdre Fox: Interstitial
@
boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, November 14th
Virtual Trolley Tour 2020 !
@
Bronzeville Art District
Online
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 7PM - 8PM
Virtual Studio Visit: Andrea Bowers
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 2PM - 3PM
The Quarantine Concerts: Kioto Aoki – Systems of Vision (part 2)
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Friday, October 16th, at 7PM
Upkeep: Everyday Strategies of Care
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, March 20th
Pivot
@
Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Artist-Run Spaces
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
Ross Sawyers: The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be.
@
062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 12PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, November 13th
Art After Work: Frank Jones
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 5PM - 6PM
A WAR OF THE WORLDS
@
Theatre in the Dark
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Reading: Azareen Van der Vliet: Oloomi
@
Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
Art in the Moment
@
Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
“Rendevous on the L”: The Intersections of Chicago Life in Art and Politics with Mujeres Mutantes
@
Hyde Park Art Center
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Feminist Mentorship: A Conversation between Maria Gaspar and Nicole Marroquin
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 6PM
Tobias Carroll and Christen Carter: Sign of the Times
@
Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Altar Making Workshop
@
National Museum of Mexican Art
Online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 6PM
Liberating History: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni
@
The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 7 PM
On view through Friday, October 16th
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