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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Heather Brammeier: Maybe Never
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, September 19th
Paul Nudd’s Purple Mayonnaisery + The Uncollected Pictures of Paul Nudd
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, August 28th
Pakiramdam Comics Workshop w/ Alex Kostiw
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 31st, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, July 31st
Community Day @ Overton
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Creative Grounds
221 E 49th St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 11AM - 2PM
Joint Book Release Celebration!
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 3:30Pm - 5:30PM
Lawndale Peace Party
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Douglass Park
2950 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 11AM - 2PM
SOS Planet Earth
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Stola Contemporary Art
3738 W Irving Park Rd Chicago, Il 60618
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 5PM - 8PM
Ricardo Mondragon: Negative Space?: Gallery Visit
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, April 17th
Harry Tonchev Trio
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 7PM - 8PM
ST(ART UP) Art + DJ Party
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 8PM - 1am
On view through Sunday, August 1st
Ghoema Closing Party: Last Call for Carnival
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, August 1st
Apostles of Humboldt Park: Open House
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T.F. Projects
1513 N Western Ave,, Unit 101, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 31st
Abraham: Pushpins, Paintings & Drawings / Transitions & Transformations: Closing Reception
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Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St., Chicago, Il 60608
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 31st
Anne Haack | Stefan Müller
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M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 31st, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, September 4th
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Robyn Beeche
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, July 30th, from 12PM - 1PM
Dreamscapes: Imaginings of a Black Pastoral
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 30th, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 5th
Dowd & Drew
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, July 30th, from 7PM - 8PM
Dieter Roelstraete in conversation with Theaster Gates
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Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 30th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 31st
Yuko Fujiyama & Reggie Nicholson + Tatsu Aoki & Edward Wilkerson Jr.
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 30th, at 7PM
Thresholds: Perspectives on (Y)OURselves
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The Catacombs at Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Sunday, September 12th
Catherine Dvorak: Exo-Skeleton
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 1st
Jovan C. Speller: Eulogy
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Aspect/Ratio Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, July 29th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, September 4th
Exhibit B #7: July Reading
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Guild Literary Complex
Online
Opening Thursday, July 29th, at 8PM
A Conversation with Hannah Altman
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, July 28th, at 6PM
AnySquared Spotlight Art Talk: Alfonso Piloto Nieves Ruiz
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AnySquared
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 28th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Virtual Launch: GAME NIGHT with Josue Pellot
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 28th, at 12PM
Christa Donner: Studies for Simultaneous Listening
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Tuesday, July 27th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, July 27th
Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition
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Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 27th, at 7:30PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace: Ethan Philion Quartet
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 27th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Documentary Premier: How to Sell Hardware
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Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Monday, July 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 31st
July Intro to Piezography Workshop
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LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, July 25th, from 12PM - 3PM
Illinois Watercolor Society 22nd Annual Members Show
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, July 25th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, August 22nd
A Composition of Memory
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave. Suite 220 Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Sunday, August 29th
Discussion: Fumi Okiji and Matthew Metzger
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Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Saturday, July 24th, at 2PM
In Conversation | Mary Sibande & Lanisa Kitchiner
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, July 24th, at 1PM
On view through Saturday, July 31st
HYPOSTASIS: A live multimedia performance by Antibody Corporation
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
MSAE Summer Soundwalks: Sound as Sight
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Burnham Nature Sanctuary
1600 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, July 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
ROA: Daltonism
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Vertical Gallery
1016 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, August 21st
Ear Taxi Festival Preview Concerts: KAIA String Quartet
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Saturday, July 24th, at 2PM
Film Screenings: Codes of Radical Persistence
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 24th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
Erwin Overes & Lisa Stefaniak: Curtain Call
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Gallery Studio Oh!
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, July 24th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 21st
Oil Paintings, Encaustics & Floral Wall Sculptures
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, July 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 15th
Lindsey Dorr-Niro: Reiterative Form
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Wedge Projects
1448 W. Howard St.
Opening Saturday, July 24th, at 6PM
On view through Thursday, July 29th
Andrea Coleman and Warith Taha: A Composition of Memory
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, July 24th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, August 29th
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Fern Shaffer
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, July 23rd, from 12PM - 1PM
PHOTO DOCK: FILTER PHOTO’S COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
Wicker Park Fest 2021
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Out of Site Chicago
Milwaukee & Wolcott/Wood, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, July 25th
Grand Gallery Grand Opening on Grand Avenue
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Grand Gallery
1376 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 23rd, from 7PM - 11PM
Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson: In-betweening
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, July 23rd, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Lorraine Peltz: Summer Bounce
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Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
345 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60645
Opening Friday, July 23rd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, August 4th
Conversation: An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Thursday, July 22nd, at 6PM
Seguimos Aquí
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Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, July 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
Artist Talk: Joseph Lefthand
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave #101, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, July 22nd, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 28th
Bob Tanner: What Was…Isn’t by: Talk
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Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Thursday, July 22nd, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, August 1st
Chicago Takes 10: HCL Commissions
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High Concept Labs
Online
Opening Thursday, July 22nd, at 6PM
Improvised Music Series: Hatcher/Jackson/Maunu/Kirshner
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 22nd, at 8:30PM
Amanda Williams and Cauleen Smith
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The Art Institute of Chicago
online
Opening Thursday, July 22nd, at 5PM
FRANKENTHOLOGIES: THE MOVIES THAT WEREN’T MOVIES
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 21st, from 8PM - 10PM
Drink & Draw [VIRTUAL]: Paper Cut Arts
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
Examine Redlining and Its Impacts with CHM
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Chicago History Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 21st, from 9:30AM - 11:30AM
Film Screenings: Codes of Radical Persistence
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 21st, from 8PM - 9:30PM
Virtual Author Reading: ROLLING WARRIOR by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner & Special Guests
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 21st, at 7PM
Hommage: Photo works from Julius Adorsu
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Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 31st
Summer Flowers
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Chicago Architecture Biennial
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 20th, from 5PM - 6PM
Latino Writers Initiative Virtual Meet Up
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National Museum of Mexican Art
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 20th, at 5:45PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace: The Fred Anderson Legacy Band
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 20th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Curator Conversations
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21c Museum Hotel
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, July 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
Toward Common Cause
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, October 23rd
BIMBO
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Hot Wheelz Festival
Online
On view through Friday, July 23rd
Juan Arango Palacios: Payasadas
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The Guild Room at Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave
Opening Monday, July 19th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 21st
Toward Common Cause
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Killer of Sheep
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bedsheet cinema
1914 N Spaulding Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 18th, at 8PM
Virtual Event: Judy Chicago in conversation with Kevin Kwan
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Sunday, July 18th, at 1PM
Fantastic Landscapes: Hokusai and Hiroshige
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, October 11th
Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Lisa Armstrong and Eric Von Haynes: Echoes, Sight, Sound, Touch
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boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 4th
Kara Walker: Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago IL 60637
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Whitfield Lovell: The Spell Suite
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South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Ear Taxi Festival Preview Concerts: Janice Misurell-Mitchell & Devin Clara Fanslow
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Saturday, July 17th, at 2PM
INTERSECTIONS
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Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N Knox Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 4PM - 9PM
Orchid: Dormancy and Becoming
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Ragdale
1260 Green Bay Rd, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, July 17th
ANNA PLESSET: Value Studies
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 21st
CLAIRE SHERMAN: Proximity
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 21st
Podlasie Pleasure Club
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Podlasie Bar
2918 N.Central Park, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 9PM - 2AM
Pakiramdam Comics Workshop w/ Alex Kostiw
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 17th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, July 31st
Susan Gomez: Collage Workshop
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The WasteShed
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
The Sindhu Project Symposium: Artistic Traditions of the Indus Region
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South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 12PM - 3PM
Ghoema: When The Party Is A Protest: Artist Talk
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Heaven Gallery
online
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, August 1st
Amanda Ramirez: Mural Dances Summer Series #1
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Barrett (Charles) Park
2022 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 3PM - 5PM
Portraits in the Park: Damon Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble
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Washington DuSable Museum of African American History, Sunken Garden
740 E 65th Pl Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 3:30PM - 6PM
THE UNQUIET EARTH
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World Listening Project
online
Opening Saturday, July 17th, from 9PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 18th
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Anastasia Samoylova
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, July 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
Tiny Art Show
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Pilsen Art House
1756 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
2021 Millennium Art Festival
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Amdur Productions
Michigan Avenue & East Lake Street
Opening Friday, July 16th, at 18 July 2021
Daphne Walsh: RELEVANT
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 7th
Discussion: Jan Verwoert and Matthew Metzger
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Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Friday, July 16th, at 12PM
ILIE VADUVA EXHIBITION
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The Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Friday, September 3rd
The Color Pencil Show
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Project Onward
Online
On view through Thursday, August 19th
BCMC Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, July 16th, at 7PM
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