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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 28th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 11th
Meet the Artist: Michael K. Paxton
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, February 28th, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 4th
Michael K. Paxton: Interpolations
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, April 4th
Katy Cowan: winds glow unceasing
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DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, April 10th
Kareem Davis: A Draftsman’s Dream
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, April 10th
The Quarantine Concerts
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Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Saturday, February 27th, at 7PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
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Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, February 27th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Geoffrey Todd Smith: Sordid Orchestra
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, April 10th
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LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 27th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 11th
Virtual Artist Talk: Mutations
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Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, February 27th, from 12 PM - 1 PM
On view through Sunday, March 7th
Seeing Red
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, February 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 14th
Book Launch: The Last Cruze
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The Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Saturday, February 27th, at 2PM
Jeremy Bolen: Slow Pause
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Andrew Rafacz
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, April 10th
Nick Makanna & Maryam Yousif: Brati’s Throne
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Andrew Rafacz
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, April 10th
Alexander Hernandez: Stayin’ Positive
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, February 27th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 11th
SaraNoa Mark: 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, February 27th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 10th
Scott Wolniak: Alight
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, February 27th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 10th
Brother El’s Live PA Workshop Series: Edition 1
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High Concept Labs
Online
Opening Saturday, February 27th, at 1PM
While We’re At It: Northwestern University 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition
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6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
On view through Sunday, April 25th
The Quarantine Concerts
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Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Friday, February 26th, at 7PM
Edo: World of Fantasy: Closing
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, February 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, February 28th
Mie Kongo: Correspondence
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60647
On view through Saturday, April 3rd
Meditations for Imaginations
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Heaven Gallery
Onine
Opening Friday, February 26th, from 7 PM - 8 PM
SOUND/SITES: Seth Parker Woods
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The Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Friday, February 26th, from 7PM - 8PM
Tiny Performances in Empty Rooms
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The Arts Club of Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, February 26th, at 6PM
In Focus: George Widener Selections from the Collection of Victor F. Keen
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, May 9th
Ragdale Talks featuring interdisciplinary artist avery r. young
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Ragdale Foundation
Online
Opening Friday, February 26th, from 7PM - 8PM
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue
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Block Museum
Online
Opening Friday, February 26th, from 12PM - 12:30PM
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Seunggu Kim
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, February 26th, at 12PM
Discussion with Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, and Liza Sylvestre, moderated by Minh Nguyen
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, at 7PM
Compensation
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
On view through Wednesday, March 3rd
The Quarantine Concerts
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Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Thursday, February 25th, at 7PM
Queer Networks in Latinx Art with C. Ondine Chavoya
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, at 6PM
Bill Gates: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
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Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, from 7PM - 8PM
Working It Out: A conversation with artist Bea Nettles and curator Mary Statzer
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Thursday, February 25th, at 4PM
MAS Context presents: Cooperative Ecosystems
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Online
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, from 12PM - 1
i really don’t know how much longer i can keep doing this
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C33 Gallery
online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, from 4:30PM - 5:30PM
On view through Thursday, March 25th
The Loose Ends of Empire: Unforgetting Colonialism
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Block Museum Online
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, at 7 PM
On view through Friday, February 26th
Carving Out Rights
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Prison and Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
in c/o: Black women on collective care
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Smart Museum of Art
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
NANCY FELDMAN: Contemporary Textile Imagery in Peru’s Amazon
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Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, from 4PM - 5:15
Katherine Desjardins: TOUCH
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Seerveld Gallery at Trinity Christian College
6601 W College Dr, Palos Heights, IL 60643
Opening Thursday, February 25th, at 25 February 2021
On view through Wednesday, March 24th
Artist Talk: Maddie Reyna
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Roman Susan
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 24th, at 7PM
Carmen Winant
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 24th, at 6PM
Take Care with Art After Dark: Cabrini Dance Party
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The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, National Public Housing Museum
online
Opening Wednesday, February 24th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 21st
One Night Stand: William Hawkins
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 24th, from 6:30PM - 7PM
LA Ashtrays: Fish Food
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Bubbles
418 N. Clark, Chicago, IL, 60654
Opening Wednesday, February 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 6th
Mentoring in Crisis Workshop 1: Vulnerability as Strength
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Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 24th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
VGA Fireside with Karina Popp
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VGA Gallery
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 24th, at 5PM
Tamara Winfrey Harris: DEAR BLACK GIRL
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 23rd, at 6PM
Macbeth and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
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Newberry Library
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 23rd, from 4PM - 5PM
Yinka Shonibare CBE
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 23rd, from 12PM - 1:30PM
FEK Draw Online And Live
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Leather Archives & Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 23rd, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Crushes Edition
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Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 23rd, at 7:30PM
David Neumann, Marcella Murray, and Tei Blow for Advanced Beginner Group, Primer for an Impossible Conversation
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 23rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Conversations at the Edge: New Channels of Access
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
On view through Wednesday, March 3rd
HYPERLINK
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C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B. Wells Dr, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Monday, February 22nd, from 9AM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, March 25th
This Set of Actions is a Mirror
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Gene Siskel Virtual Cinema
Online
Opening Monday, February 22nd, from 12am - 11PM
On view through Wednesday, March 3rd
Cecil McDonald, Jr.: Cuts and Beats
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, June 12th
Ground Floor
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, April 3rd
Next Window, Please!
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, April 3rd
Rodrigo Lara-Zendejas: Campo Santo
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IU Northwest Gallery for Contemporary Art
65 W 33rd Ave, Gary, IN 46408
Opening Monday, February 22nd, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, April 2nd
Regin Igloria: Slow Going Slowly: A One Year Account of Drawing
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IU Northwest School of The Arts Gallery
3415 Broadway Ave, 2nd Fl , Gary, IN 46408
Opening Monday, February 22nd, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, March 26th
Meet the Artist: Jiaqi Zhang
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, February 21st, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, March 28th
Contemporary Art after Frida Kahlo with Julie Rodrigues Widholm
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Cleve Carney Museum of Art
Online
Opening Sunday, February 21st, from 3PM - 5PM
Dykes With Drills Make It Take It: Plant Stand
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Rebuilding Exchange
1740 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, February 20th, from 10:30 - 1:30PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
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Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, February 20th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
TQC: Archive Dive Broadcast – Phill Niblock’s “The Magic Sun” + Special Interview
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Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Saturday, February 20th, at 7PM
African Diaspora in Arts Panel
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Chicago Public Library
Online
Opening Saturday, February 20th, from 2PM - 3PM
Virtual Artist Talk: Earth (Em)Body
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Heaven Gallery
online
Opening Saturday, February 20th, from 12 PM - 1 PM
On view through Sunday, March 7th
Stephen Blickenstaff: Infestations & Splattered Mutations
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Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, March 14th
Janice Elkins and Gina Lee Robbins: Not Afraid
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, April 18th
Work, People, Art: Selections from the Works Progress Administration Collection of the Illinois State Museum
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, May 16th
Wen Liu: On Longing
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S. Throop St, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 20th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 6th
LatinXAmerican Podcast, Episode 6: Caroline Kent
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Friday, February 19th, at 12PM
Millee Tibbs: Mount Analogue
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 20th
OLD WAYS NEW TOOLS: A Festival of Online Performance
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, February 19th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, February 21st
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Shannon Bool
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, February 19th, at 12PM
Let’s Make Civic Love
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National Public Housing Museum
Online
Opening Friday, February 19th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Derrick Adams: The Last Resort
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, March 27th
Motion and Meaning Lecture Series: Dance, Illocutions, and Discourse Representation
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Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
Online
Opening Friday, February 19th, from 11:30AM - 12:30PM
Art After Work: Marvin Tate
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, February 18th, from 5PM - 6PM
Claudia Peña Salinas: Quetzalli
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, August 15th
Bob Tanner and Sanrda Ullman
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Perspective Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, February 18th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 28th
Artist Talk: John Marks
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Roman Susan
Online
Opening Thursday, February 18th, at 7PM
Reproductive: Teen Education Workshop
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Thursday, February 18th, at 7PM
Evolving Perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Art
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The Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, February 18th, from 5PM - 5:45PM
African American Artistic Resistance in the Civil War South
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Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
Online
Opening Thursday, February 18th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
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Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 17th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Palabra Pura Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration / Celebración del Décimoquinto Aniversario de Palabra Pura
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Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 17th, at 7PM
Cross Currents: Contemporary Art from New Delhi to Beijing
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 17th, from 6:30AM - 8AM
2021 Artists-in-Residence Virtual Welcome Event + Artist Talk
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Arts and Public Life
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 17th, at 6PM
Viva la Vida: Recetas de la Vida
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National Museum of Mexican Art
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 16th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Shadi Bartsch: The Aeneid
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 16th, at 7PM
Latino Writers Initiative Virtual Meet Up
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National Museum of Mexican Art
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 16th, at 5:4PM
Wandering in Chicago: Akinbode Akinbiyi in Conversation
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Chicago Architecture Biennial
Online
Opening Tuesday, February 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
For Six Voices (perhaps)
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Annas | Lumpen Radio
105.50 FM WLPN
Opening Sunday, February 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
Our Right to Gaze: BLack Film Identities
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Full Spectrum Features
Online
Vikesh Kapoor: See You at Home
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Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
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