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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
MCA Screen: #OpenTVTonight
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, January 31st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Panel Discussion: Resistance In and Around Nature’s Metropolis
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, January 31st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Closing: Erin Smego: Cold Color
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The Hermosa Walls
2306 N Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Sunday, January 29th, from 1PM - 4PM
In Between Two Bodies
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South of the Tracks
4223 W Lake St, # 430, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, January 29th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 4th
Beauty Breaks: Session 8 | Galvanize
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F4F
2846 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, January 29th, from 2PM - 5PM
Closing Reception: Adele Supreme + Caroline Jacobson
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Woman Made Gallery
685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
Xavier Cha: In The News
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The Renaissance Society
5811 S. Ellis Ave, 4th Floor
Opening Saturday, January 28th, at 4PM
2017 Palace Film Festival
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Thalia Hall
1807 S Allport St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 2:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, January 29th
One Day This Kid Will Get Larger: Curator’s Tour and Screening
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Depaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 2PM - 4PM
Bethany Collins: Material Fact
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PATRON
73 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, March 21st
Bryan Savitz: for above a threshold
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PATRON
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, March 21st
Norman W. Long: Soundwalk Performance
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Compound Yellow
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 12PM - 1:30
Artist Talk: Alex O’Neal and Brenda Moore
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Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen, Suite 151, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
In Conversation: Ken Rosenthal and Robert Clarke-Davis
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LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Kevin Barrett Weil: Two Addresses
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Beautiful
1801 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
Screening: El Topo
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Pilsen Outpost
1958 W 21st St, Chicago, IL60608
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
TRQPiTECA: 2 YR Anniversary
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Juniors
2058 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 28th, at 9PM
Resuscitate: Featuring Jojo Baby
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Defibrillator Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
Mess Hall: Installment Four
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Archer Beach Haus
3012 S Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 28th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib: Dark Light (UPDATED)
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Cleve Carney Art Gallery
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 8PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 4th
Feeding Time
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Co Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, February 12th
Red Line Service: House
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 25th
Josh Dihle: Reverse Rehearsal
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McAninch Art Center at College of DuPage
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 9th
Alejandro Jimenez-Flores: Early Roses filled with Late Snow
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Adds Donna
3252 W. North Avenue
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 4th
OVERVIEW
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1917 W Division St, Apt 2F, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 10th
Finger on the Pulse
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Fulton Recital Hall
5845 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Art Aids America Chicago Presents Bill T Jones
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Erica Brooks: Part of the Party
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Art of Connection
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SAIC Sullivan Galleries
33 S State St, 7th floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 11th
Close To Me
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Re:Reading Spaces
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Public Access
3306 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Danielle Rosen: HYDRA
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 4th
Artist Talk: The Physicality of Painting
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Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 27th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Winter Exhibitions Opening Reception
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, January 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 2nd
The Conversation (Inaugural Event): Art and Resistance
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, Illinois 60640
Opening Thursday, January 26th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Director’s Lecture with Robert J. Shiller
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Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, January 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
An Evening with LaToya Ruby Frazier
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, January 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
Screening: I am Not Your Negro
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, January 26th, at 7PM
Mocrep + Marcela Lucatelli: Off-human
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, January 26th, from 8:03PM - 11:11PM
Contemporary Art Warriors
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Fr. Michael E. Komechak, O.S.B. Art Gallery
Benedictine University, 5700 College rd., Kindlon hall, 5th Floor, Lisle, IL 60532
Opening Wednesday, January 25th, from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
On view through Tuesday, February 28th
Past and Present: Artwork by Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters
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O'Connor Art Gallery (Dominican University)
7900 Division St, River Forest, IL 60305
Opening Wednesday, January 25th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, March 9th
Artist Talk: Jill Magid
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Forum Room, 1515 Kresge Hall
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Tuesday, January 24th, from 7PM - 8PM
Canceled: Elise Archias discusses “The Concrete Body – Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci.”
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Tuesday, January 24th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
School Night, Self-Care as Warfare
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, January 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
Bojana Cvejić: Social Choreography and Performing the Self
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Sector 2337 + Green Lantern Press
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, January 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Sinema Obscura presents: Shitcago
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Township
2220 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, January 23rd, from 7:30PM - 11PM
Elliot J. Reichert on Qalandiya International 2016
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Cochrane Woods Art Center
5540 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, January 23rd, from 4:30PM - 6PM
Fantastic Architecture: Vostell, Fluxux, and the Built Environment
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Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, January 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, March 17th
Instructions for a Chicago Fluxus Opening
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The University of Chicago
multiple locations
Opening Sunday, January 22nd, from 3PM - 6PM
I Have Feelings to Express
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
319 N Albany, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, January 22nd, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
B/reading Ground: Poet Tara Betts
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Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, January 22nd, from 12PM - 2:30PM
Kader Attia: Reflecting Memory
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, January 21st, from 2 PM - 4 PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Megan Sterling: Heavy are the Mountains, Heavy the Seas and Julie Weber: Dark Adaptation
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620 Chicago Il 60603
Opening Saturday, January 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Survey
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Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center
6433 North Ravenswood Avenue
Opening Saturday, January 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
Ryan Fenchel: The Adept Wept
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Carrie Secrist Gallery
3069 S. Lock St., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 4th
En Face
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Aspect/Ratio
119 N Peoria S, #3D, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Latham Zearfoss: Intents and Purposes
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Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 21st, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 4th
ATOM-r: Kjell Theøry
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Founded
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, January 20th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 4th
Kapwani Kiwanga: The sum and its parts
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, March 12th
The Anti-Inauguration: An Emergency Cabaret
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High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S. Throop St.
Opening Friday, January 20th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Kjell Theøry: Prologue
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL - 60610
Opening Friday, January 20th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 9th
Chicago on My Mind
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Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 26th
Chicago’s Henry Darger
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Friday, January 20th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
Bridgeport Art Center’s 5th Annual Juried Art Competition
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Bridgeport Art Center
1200 West 35th Street
Opening Friday, January 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 3rd
Library Society Winter Reception for Concrete Poetry, Concrete Book
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The Joseph Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th Street, Room 122
Opening Thursday, January 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
Lynne Cooke: Lecture
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Renaissance Society
Kent Hall, room 120, 1020 E 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Conversation: Public Offerings—Sculpture as Civic Art
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, January 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
Brotherhood: Leyendas de un Bracero
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Kruger Gallery
3709 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613-3718
Opening Thursday, January 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 31st
Party at the Smart: Radioactive
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, January 19th, from 8PM - 10PM
Try Harder
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Robert Morris University
401 S State ST, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, January 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, February 23rd
Graphic Conservation Company
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Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, January 18th, from 12PM - 1PM
Moving Images, Making Cities Film Series: Las Marthas
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60649
Opening Wednesday, January 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
Studio Wednesday: Sign/Banner Making Day!
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AnySquared
2328 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, January 18th, from 3PM - 10PM
Protest Banner Making Workshop w/ Aram and Lisa
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, January 18th, from 12PM - 8PM
MCA Screen: Lota, The Devil’s Blast
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, January 17th, from 6PM - 7:30
Concrete Poetry, Concrete Book: Artists’ Books in German-speaking Space after 1945
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Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, January 17th, from 9AM - 4:45PM
On view through Friday, March 17th
We Just Don’t Know—Finding Ways to Loosen Certainties: A Seminar
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Sector 2337 + Green Lantern Press
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, January 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
Mocrep
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, January 16th, from 7:15 PM - 8PM
Sandra Holubow: The First 200 Years: A Celebration Of The Illinois Bicentennial
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Village Hall Art Gallery, Village Hall Lincolnwood
6900 N Lincoln Ave, Lincolnwood, IL 60712
Opening Monday, January 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, February 27th
Closing Reception and Crystal Seeing Event with Dana Major
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Corner
2912 N Milwaukee Ave (Storefront), Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, January 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 15th
A Certain Slant of Light
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, January 15th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th
Gallery Talk with T. Paul Young and John Corbett
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, January 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Elyse Johnson: The Silver Screen
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Kitchen Space
2716 N Monticello Ave Apt 1F
Opening Sunday, January 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 10th
The Blues Art Exhibition
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 28th
Cameron Harvey: A Hole in My Bucket
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 11th
Ancient Age: An Endless Journey In Place
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
On view through Friday, February 19th
Lior Modan: LONG | TONG
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Triumph
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, February 12th
The Starship Spiderbug
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DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Cancelled – Jane Kamensky: A Revolution in Color
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 10AM - 11:30AM
Ambiguity Forum
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The Renaissance Society
5811 S. Ellis Ave, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, January 14th, at 3PM
Trace Elements
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Miishkooki
4517 Oakton, Skokie, IL 60076
Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 24th
Here. End. After_
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KCC Art Gallery
9930 Capitol Dr, Wheeling, IL 60090
Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, January 31st
A Transformation of Things: FINAL PERFORMANCE
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Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W. Washington. Blvd., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
Erin Hayden: Your Hyperbole Could Be a Screensaver
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Randy Alexander Gallery
1926 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60616
Opening Friday, January 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 18th
Nothing From Something
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Gallery19
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, January 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 11th
Off the Wall
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Studio Oh!
1837 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, January 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, February 28th
MCA Talk: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, January 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Concepts of Aesthetic Form
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Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Monday, January 16th
Michael Gaylord James: Onward!
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Uri Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL60608
Opening Friday, January 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 3rd
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