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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Michael Castillo: Chungking Mansions: A world unto itself
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The Arcade
618 S Michigan Ave, 2 Fl, Chicago IL, 60605
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Andrea Martiradonna: The Nature of Shadow
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Thomas Masters Gallery
245 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, March 21st
WW: Trauma and the Aesthetics of Life Series, Bad News
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The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
2nd Annual Black Arts Festival
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Columbia College Art and Design Building
623 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
Léopold Lambert: Political Reading of Arakawa+Gins
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Gray and Johnson Art: Urban Pop Art Event
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
Pipeline: An Evening with Chicago Books to Women in Prison
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Victory Gardens Theater
2433 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Off-Site: CHIPRC’s Zine Club DIY Edition
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Pumping Station: One
3519 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
A Lunar Performance Thing
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Agitator: A Co-operative Gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 8PM - 11PM
Diane Christiansen
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Northeastern Illinois University Art Department
5500 N Saint Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, March 15th
Intime Performance Festival | BadCo, Impossible Dances
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 8PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 23rd
Campfire Download 2019 #1
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Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency
3435 Rupprecht Way, Saugatuck, MI 49453
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
Art, Illusion & Control in the Roman Villa
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 6PM - 7PM
Our Literal Speed
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Film Studies Center
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 7PM - 8PM
Transistors
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Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, March 22nd
Paint Like You’re Dead
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Printworks on Taylor St
1058 W Taylor St, Chicago IL, 60607
Opening Thursday, February 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, February 24th
Bouchra Khalili
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The Art Institute of Chicago
Rubloff Auditorium: 230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, February 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Contemporary Printmaking from the permanent collection of the Brauer Museum of Art
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Indiana University Northwest School of the Arts Gallery
3401 Broadway Ave, 2nd FL Gary, IN 46408
Opening Wednesday, February 20th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
On view through Thursday, February 28th
Annika Marie: Art Now! Lecture
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Art & Art History, Columbia College Chicago
623 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, February 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
Joanne Pillsbury
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The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, February 20th, from 5PM - 7PM
The World is Watching
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, February 20th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
Slideshow
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Wednesday, March 6th
Ruben Quesada & Maggie Andersen
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
Past, Present, Future
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SAIC at Homan Square
906 S Homan Ave (10th floor), Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
The Bradbury Chronicles: Three Short Films
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Enjoy the Film
6431 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
Trans in America: Chicago Love
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Dr. Martin Luther King Center
4314 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Story Club South Side: Close-Knit
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 8PM - 10PM
Jukebox: A Music Video Exhibition
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Raw and the Cooked: Winter Edition
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Horse Thief Hollow Brewing Co
10426 S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
Photography Book Club
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, April 23rd
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
Lauren Mackler on Parts of Speech
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Mary Porterfield: Selected Drawings and Paintings
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Founders Gallery
190 Prospect Ave, Elmhurst, Il. 60126
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 4:30 - 6:30
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Sergei Parajanov: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, February 18th, from 7PM - 8:50PM
Augusto Corrieri: play to delete
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, February 18th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
POWER: Voices & Visions
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Art and Design program Chicago State University
9501 S Dr Martin L King Jr Dr, Chicago, IL 60628
On view through Wednesday, February 20th
Maria Tzeka: Moments
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Final Resting Place
3350 S Bell Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
Venetian Carnivale
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Wishbone North
3300 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 2PM - 5PM
Maddie Reyna: YES
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Julius Caesar
3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 17th
Goin’ to Chicago
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 3:30PM - 5PM
The G Force
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 3PM - 6PM
Ayesha Jaco and Roy Kinsey: Sharing the Crop: Community Migration Cipher
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
The Black Farmer
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Heritage Cafe
1849 E 79th St, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 12PM - 2PM
Community Binding II: Participatory Arts Bookbinding Workshop
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 12PM - 4PM
Always Touches on a Flower
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Apparatus Projects
2639 W Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Thursday, March 28th
Sharing the Crop: Community Migration Cipher with Ayesha Jaco & Roy Kinsey
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
Goin To Chicago
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, February 17th, from 3:30PM - 5PM
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, February 16th, at 12:30PM
The Whole World a Bauhaus
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, February 16th, at 1:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Assaf Evron & Claudia Weber
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
On view through Sunday, April 14th
FEMIfest: Day Two
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Hostel Earphoria
3464 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, February 16th
FEMIfest: Night Two
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Hostel Earphoria
3464 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, February 16th
Keelan McMorrow: DETRITUS: life after death
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
Undead Valentine
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Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 9PM - 2AM
Natalie Krick Book Signing and Closing Reception
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 16th
Drone Stories Embroidery Circle
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6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 1:30PM - 4PM
Captured in Black and White
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Downers Grove Museum
831 Maple Ave, Downers Grove, IL 60515
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, July 12th
The Dear Friend
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Aspect/Ratio
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, February 16th
Michael Dinges: Algorithms Are The Utensils We Use To Devour Each Other
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Living Room Gallery
1530 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
Northwestern University Graduate Critical Theory Conference
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University Hall, Northwestern University
1897 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 9:45AM - 6:30PM
Revolutionary Love
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
Bauhaus and the USA: 1919-33
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 1:30PM - 3PM
Knitting Community
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
The Evolution of the Chicago Machine and Black Politics
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Greenstone United Methodist Church
11211 S Saint Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 1PM - 3PM
Hooligan Mag 5 Year Art Collective
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RutCorp
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 1PM - 11PM
Jenn Smith: Glossolalia
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Bar4000
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 10th
object / item / material / me: coffee with the Curator
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Annas Projects
629 W Cermak Rd, Suite 240, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 10AM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, February 24th
Anne Yafi: Dip In My Daydream: Artist Talk
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 16th, at 2:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 23rd
IN>TIME: Judith Leemann: enter, the symptom [I will show self-control]
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
One Drop: A Celebration of the African Diaspora
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Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Emerging Artists Collective: Piece of Mind
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Peoria Public Library, Main Library
107 NE Monroe, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Saturday, February 16th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Thursday, February 28th
FEMIfest: Night One
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Auxiliary Arts Center
3012 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, February 16th
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, February 15th
Sasha Litvintseva
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
2nd Floor Co-op Launch Party
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Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey Ave., #208, Chicago, IL, 60647
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 11PM
The Legacy of Moishe Postone
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The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 9AM - 5:15PM
On view through Saturday, February 16th
Image>Image Size
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Lillstreet Gallery
4410 N Ravenswood Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 15th
Michael Smith: Fashion, Figure, and Form
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Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Fl 4, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Mistake Factory
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Paper Hat
1953 N Campbell Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
UltraViolet-A
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Mako James
1029 W 35th St, #309, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 15th
Closed Afar
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Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery (DfbrL8r)
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Growing up Black
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Legendary Art Gallery
2419 W Madison, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 11PM
A Lovely Evening with Ken & Marilyn
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Stephen Daiter Gallery
230 W Superior St, Ste 400, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Yoonshin Park: Tied
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The B&L Gallery, Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, #008, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 8th
C3 Artists Show at Oggi Chicago
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OGGI, Chicago
2451 S Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 23rd
Photos at Noon: Global Migration
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 12PM - 1PM
Rafael Soldi: Life Stand Still Here
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Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Joshua Aronson: I Thought About Posting This
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Congruent Space
1216 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, February 17th
Sergio Gomez: Coalescence
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Oh Art Foundation, Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Parts of Speech: Astra Taylor
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Jane Adams Hull-House
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, February 15th, at 5:30PM
Keelan McMorrow: Detritus: life after death
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, February 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 30th
Page & Stage
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, February 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Power Ouch!
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, February 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, February 17th
Homecoming
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SITE Galleries
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago IL, 60603
Opening Thursday, February 14th, from 4:15PM - 5:45PM
On view through Saturday, March 9th
Naeem Mohaiemen: United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part I)
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, February 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
In The Realm Of Senses presents: SENSUOUS
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Chopin Theatre
1543 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, February 14th, from 8PM - 10PM
Trans Art Is: Love & Liberation
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Andersonville Galleria
5247 N Clark St Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, February 14th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 22nd
Good Mourning Cafe
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Wedge project space
1448 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, February 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Random Acts of Love
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2nd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, February 14th, from 7PM - 11PM
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