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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Who Owns Our Block? An Exploration of Local Property Ownership in Chicago
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 30th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Access Praxis: Ariella Granados
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
A Conversation with Rick Lowe
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Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 30th, at 6PM
SOMEONE YOU KNOW: THE CONCERT
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The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, April 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 29th
Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris
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BUILD Chicago
Austin Headquarters, 5100 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60644
On view through Friday, May 10th
Table for Two – Amor Towles and Greta Johnsen
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Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Monday, April 29th, from 7PM - 8:15PM
On view through Monday, April 29th
James Benning: 11 x 14 (1977)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 28th, at 8PM
“This Is What We Carry” Closing Night
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Gallery Wrightwood
3325 W Wrightwood Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Sandra Binion: Duras Piece and Suite for Bass and Ironing Bored Variation
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Asian Improv aRts Midwest
4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 5PM - 7PM
Abbey LaCroix: Phototaxis
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4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 2nd
Nina Elder and Alexis Elton: BREATH MOUNTAIN
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Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 3PM - 5PM
Xuanlin Ye: Bamboo In My Chest
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Jessica Frances Martin: Wildflower
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
Sherwin Ovid: Leeway
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Tsai-Ling Tseng: Piece together (times)
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Indelible ORIGINS | The BLACK Domestic Living Roomscape – Reading Time
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The GREYSTONE Collective
4733 S Forrestville Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 1 PM - 3:30 PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Yousef Srouji: THREE PROMISES (2023)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, April 28th, at 1PM
Reflections of a Young Woman: Photographs from the Archive of Shigeko Kumamoto
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LATITUDE CHICAGO
2003 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Jonas Müller-Ahlheim: Peakaboo: Closing Reception
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Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Reflections of a Young Woman: Photographs from the Archive of Shigeko Kumamoto
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Latitude Chicago
2003 West Fulton Street, Suite 211
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
FPE Records presents: Bass Dreams minus B
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208 Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 8:30PM - 10PM
Laura Ortman: Smoke Rings Shimmers Endless Blur
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 27th, at 7:30PM
The Swans of Harlem: Reclaiming the History of Black Ballet
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Francis W. Parker School
330 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Side Yard Sounds: Kouri Hall + Sonnezimmer
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
unstuck
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SITE/less
1250 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 27th, at 7PM
Zander Raymond / dan derks / Andrew CS
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
More Beautiful, More Terrible: Humans of Life Row
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 27th, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, June 6th
PERFECT DAY
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Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Skye Weimann + Daria Jin present: Nearing
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
HIGH FIVE! — An Invitational Group Exhibition Featuring Past Blue Moon Artists
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 12th
Blue Moon Gallery Collective Artists Group Show
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 12th
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS (2023)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, April 27th, at 6PM
Industry of the Ordinary: Beauty, Terrible Beauty
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Healing House
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 5PM - 10PM
Elsewhere: An Elegy Book Release Event with Faisal Mohyuddin
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Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 4PM - 7PM
Bianca Xunise Celebrates PUNK ROCK KARAOKE, In Conversation with Jessica Hopper
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Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 27th, at 3:30PM
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
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The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 27th, at 7PM
Susan Giles: Words to Grasp Artist Talk with Anne Harris
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Poetry Fest Keynote: 24th Poet Laureate Ada Limón
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Harold Washington Library Center
400 S State St, Chicago. IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 3PM
“This Living Earth” Creative Forum Event
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Beverly Arts Center
Simmerling 2nd Floor Gallery, 2407 W. 111th St, Chicago, IL 60655
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
AIRMW Presents: Lauren Deutsch’s “Tangible Sound”
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Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW)
4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 5PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, May 10th
Max Guy: Running from one time: Closing Performance
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Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Suite 121, Building A, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Spirits, Spirituality, & Craft | Reading & Panel
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 1PM - 2:15PM
Azuna: ILLEGAL ARTIST: Artist Talk
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Side Street Studio Arts
15 Ziegler Ct, Elgin, IL 60120
Opening Saturday, April 27th, at 1PM
Lawrence Agyei: DRILL: Artist Talk
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 2PM - 12PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Community and Craft
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 12PM - 4PM
History Reconsidered: Reimagining History through Photography
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Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 11AM - 12PM
Book Talk with Sherina Feliciano-Santos
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The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 11AM - 1PM
Silvita Brown: Ellas y Yo Mexicanas
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 27th, at 7PM
16th Street Studios Spring Studio Open House
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Racine Arts and Business Center
1405 16th St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 10AM - 4PM
Learning Series | The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education Part 3
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 10AM - 11:30AM
Art on the Farm
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Just Roots Community Farm
2936 S Wabash Ave Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, April 27th, from 10AM - 12PM
TOMORROW’S FREEDOM (2022)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 8PM
Slow Dog (album release), Brutal Shift, Ghoul’s Teeth, Yea Big + Tatsu Aoki
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 8PM
Autumn Ramsey
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Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
Laura Ortman: Smoke Rings Shimmers Endless Blur
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 7:30PM
Jonathan Demme: Stop Making Sense (1984)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Gericault De La Rose: Moon Healing Escalation
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 7th
Co-MISSION Works-In-Progress Spring 2024
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
BODY AMULETS: Style + Alchemy
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Honeycomb Network
2657 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
Radiant Shadows: The Films of Pedro Costa
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 6 PM
WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE? + SICILIA! with Pedro Costa in person
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 6PM
Kathleen Judge: Traces
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Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
Cesca Carletto-Leon : I can’t sit still but I’m trying: Artist Talk
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Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 5:30PM
On view through Friday, May 3rd
Sinag: Ray Of Light
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Judy Ledgerwood: Sunny Redux
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
For Women, By Women
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Arcade Gallery
618 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
John-Michael Korpal: A Year in the Life of a Tree
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Warren Park
2045 W Pratt Blvd, Chicago, IL 60645
Opening Friday, April 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Friday, June 21st
Inner Orbits: Abstract Exhibition
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Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, April 26th, at 7
On view through Friday, May 17th
Sweet Void Delights
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FACETS
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 25th, at 9PM
Comfort Music + Homeroom: Pax in the Frozen Time
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Brendan McAlinden: Gong Meditation
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boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Graywolf 50th Anniversary
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Pedro Costa: CASA DE LAVA (1994)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 25th, at 6PM
Guided Creative Expansion Experience with Hillary Johnson
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C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B. Wells Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, April 29th
Berenika Boberska: Exploring California’s Lithium Valley
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Pri-Ma-Ve-Ra in Humboldt Park (Poetry Showcase)
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The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Dandelions in the Concrete: An Evening for Building Communal Support, Care
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Art Making for Environmental Justice
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CHICAGO JUSTICE GALLERY
1344 S Halsted St Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 1PM - 3PM
UIS Visual Arts Senior Student Exhibition
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UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza Health and Sciences Building, 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, April 25th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 2nd
Elastro Series: Laura Ortman, Kim Nucci / Ruby Que, Kikú Hibino
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 24th, at 8PM
Ours: A Book Launch and Celebration
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Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, April 24th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Sarah Beddington: FADIA’S TREE (2022)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, April 24th, at 6PM
Deborah Stratman: Last Things (2023)
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Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, April 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
IN VANDA’S ROOM (2000) with Pedro Costa in person
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 24th, at 5:30 PM
Pleiades Series x The Bridge: Céline Rivoal, Katie Ernst, Caroline Jesalva, Al Kolot
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Tuesday, April 23rd, at 8PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Return of Zine Bingo Edition
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Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 23rd, at 7:30PM
Good Relative: Creating Kinship with Fire and More-Than-Human Beings
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 23rd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Mary Mulcahey Dabke: Through the Decades
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Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 23rd, at 6PM
Trinity Mitchell: Magical Trickster
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Carlson Tower Gallery
5134 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Tuesday, April 23rd, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
The Bridge
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Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW)
4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Monday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
B. Ingrid Olson: Artist talk
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 22nd, at 6PM
Lily Scherlis: “What Went Wrong at Big Brain?”
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Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 22nd, from 12PM - 12:30PM
James Benning: Sogobi (2002)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 21st, at 8PM
Carina Vargas-Nuñez: mano a mano: Artist Talk & Closing
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cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Unit 920, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 21st, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
ISRAELISM (2023)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, April 21st, at 1PM
The BLACK Domestic Living Roomscape | Game Time
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The GREYSTONE Collective
4733 S Forrestville Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 21st, from 1PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Family Day with Read/Write Library
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 21st, from 12PM - 3PM
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