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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, May 31st, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 1st
NEOCraft Special Edition
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The Loneliness Chapel
University of Chicago, Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Rm. 157, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, May 31st, at 6PM
Channel 2020 Expo 2013
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The Octagon Gallery
120 N Green Street, Unit 3b, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, May 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
If All Else Fails
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, Illinois 60608
Opening Friday, May 31st, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, June 2nd
FiLMs on 79 Independent Film Festival
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Gallery 79
2449 W. 79th St Chicago, IL 60652
Opening Friday, May 31st, from 7 PM - 8: 30 PM
Rapid Pulse Vernissage, with Wafaa Bilal
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DEFIBRILLATOR PERFORMANCE ART GALLERY
1136 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, May 31st, from 8PM - 10P
On view through Friday, May 31st
Libby Lumpkin (Lecture)
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Logan Center for the Arts
Logan Center for the Arts, Room 901. 915 East 60th St, Chicago IL
Opening Wednesday, May 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Loophole Limbo
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Wednesday, May 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
Visiting Artist Lecture: Doug Ischar
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Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Pick-Laudati Auditorium
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 29th, at 5PM
Rerenaissance: Renovar Fall 2013
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd floor
Opening Saturday, May 25th, from 8PM - 930PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
trying to be cute bc the abyss
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219–21 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 24th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 26th
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford (Artist Talk)
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Emerging Artists Lecture Series w/ Marianna Milhorat: Unfamiliar Lands
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Lillstreet Loft
Lillstreet Loft 4437 N Ravenswood Ave Chicago IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, May 22nd, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 22nd
Joan Mitchell Exhibit
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The Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Monday, May 20th, from 11AM - 4PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
Frances Stark (Lecture)
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Logan Center for the Arts
Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201. 915 East 60th St, Chicago IL
Opening Monday, May 20th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Beneath the Blindfold
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 2PM - 4:30PM
Kellie Romany: Gestate
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Arts Incubator in Washington Park
301 E Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Alexander Wolfe & Ryan Nault: Lifetime Activity
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LODOS
3106 W Fullerton Ave
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, May 23rd
David Salle: Ghost Paintings
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 East Ontario Street, Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 11am - 3PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
8-Sided Support
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The Octagon Gallery
120 N Green Street, Unit 3b, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
Sway (UChicago MFA Show #4)
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Logan Center Gallery
915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 26th
Per Se
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3433
3433 Kedvale Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
Gina Litherland: The Reason for the Unreason
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Ave, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Gertrude Abercrombie / Julia Thecla
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Ave, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
The Salon Series with Lynn Basa
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The Salon Series Projects
1319 W. Wilson
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
End of Year Show: Making the New
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IIT Institute of Design
350 N LaSalle, 6th Floor
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, May 21st
On The Precipice
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
2013 BFA Fine Art Exhibition
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Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
619 S Wabash Avenue, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
FiLMs on 79 Independent Film Festival
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Gallery 79
2449 W. 79th St Chicago, IL 60652
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 7 PM - 8: 30 PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
Jasmine Justice: All Myths Are True
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65GRAND
1369 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Public Dialogue #1 Creative Strategies for Redevelopment: Artists as Catalysts for Neighborhood Regeneration
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Arts Incubator in Washington Park
301 E Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
The Prospective Series 2
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Old Town Social
455 W North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, May 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Open Art Lab: Horse Models
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Monday, May 13th, from 10:30AM - 2:30PM
Eric May and Rimas Simaitis present: E-Dogz: Apocalypse Culinary Refuge Center
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Monday, May 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Richard Fishman (Lecture)
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Logan Center for the Arts
Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201. 915 East 60th St, Chicago IL
Opening Monday, May 13th, from 7PM - 8PM
Lorraine Dauw: Nancy Drew Titan Savor
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The Hills Esthetic Center
128 N Campbell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60612
Opening Sunday, May 12th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, June 16th
Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings: A Symposium of Poets and Artists
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Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 12 PM - 6 PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
Jessica Taylor Caponigro: Black Damp
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Johalla Projects
1821 W. Hubbard St., Suite 209
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 2nd
Barron Storey: Factum 1 and Factum 2 & Robb Stone: Gazing
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 1220 Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Josué Pellot, Josh Reames, Morgan Sims and Ron Ewert: no stairway to heaven
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heaven gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Opening Friday, May 10th, from 7PM - 11p
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Tim Mann & Jon Waites: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
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LODOS
3106 W Fullerton Ave
Opening Friday, May 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, May 15th
A New Narrative
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Rotofugi
2780 N Lincoln Ave
Opening Friday, May 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, June 6th
ASCII 4
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Elastic Arts Foundation
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
Opening Friday, May 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
Amanda Joy Calobrisi: Friends of My World
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Ugly Step Sister Art Gallery
1750 S. Union Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, May 10th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Glossolalia: Senior Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice
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Dittmar Gallery
First Floor, Norris Center 1999 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, May 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 13th
Laura Davis: Unknown Pleasures
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N. Carpenter Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 30th
Jesse Butcher, James T. Green, & Christopher Meerdo: No Gods No Masters.
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N. Carpenter Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 30th
Lee Blalock: NeueBody Research
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Wednesday, May 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
The Artist’s Life: Edgar Arceneaux in conversation with Sabina Ott
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Arts Incubator in Washington Park
301 E Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 8th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
New Street Agenda
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International Art Drops
Chicago Artist Invades NW France
Opening Wednesday, May 8th, from 6am - 6PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
Other Modernisms: Serge Charchoune (1889–1975)
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 6th, from 5:30 PM - 7 PM
On view through Sunday, August 25th
Emily Carter and Meg Leary: I’m Not Allowed In The Golden Nugget
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ACRE Projects
1913 W. 17th St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, May 5th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, May 19th
Reading Room
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Julius Caesar
3311 W. Carroll Ave. Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, May 5th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 26th
Conor Ekstrom
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Alcatraz Chicago
1000 N. Halsted Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 19th
Raychael Stine: carry on daisies
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Jekyll and Hyde
1227 E. 54th Street
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Methodical Deconstruction
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The Franklin
3522 W. Franklin Blvd
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Carol Jackson & Julie Potratz: Runs and Goses
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slow
2153 W 21st Street
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Daniel Bauer: Domestica Dentata
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Alderman Exhibitions
1138 W Randolph Street
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 20th
Brian Rush & Gwyneth Anderson: Detent & Stow
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Adult Contemporary
2351 N. Milwaukee Ave
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
1035 Days
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Ebersmoore
350 N Ogden Ave Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
Elisa Harkins: Native American Fax Machine
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Happy Collaborationists
1254 N Noble, Chicago IL, 60642
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Lenox-Lenox: Me, Myself, & I
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CourtneyBlades
1324 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 2nd
Amanda Ross-Ho: Cradle of Filth
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Shane Campbell Gallery
673 North Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Just Like All Those Times Tomorrow
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SideCar
411 Huehn Street, Hammond, Indiana, 46327
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Kaoru Arima: And Then
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Queer Thoughts
1640 W. 18th St. #3, Chicago, Illinois 60608
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 2nd
Jennet Thomas: I Am Your Error Message
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 7PM - 8PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Fashion 2013
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Millennium Park
201 E. Randolph St.
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 9am - 5PM
Wayward (UChicago MFA Show #3)
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Logan Center Gallery
915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 12th
HalfLifers
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria Street
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
Clownflaneur: MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice
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Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 23rd
Marie-Caroline Hominal & François Chaignaud: Duchesses
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Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery
1136 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago IL
Opening Wednesday, May 1st, from 8PM - 9:30PM
On view through Thursday, May 2nd
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