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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Hannah Levy: Surplus Tension
@
The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, January 29th
Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Online Curator Tour
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, September 30th, at 12:30PM
Stockyard Institute Catalogue release + Conversation with Jim Duignan and Lavie Raven
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, September 30th, at 6PM
The Other Art Fair Chicago
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Revel Fulton Market
1215 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 30th, from 11am - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 3rd
Jonathan Michael Castillo: Unaccompanied
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C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B. Wells D, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60623
On view through Thursday, October 28th
Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Exhibition Keynote Conversation
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, September 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Ear Taxi Festival: Professional Development Day
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 29th, at 6PM
Claudia Hart: The Unfolding: Performance and Discussion
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Haynes
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, September 28th, at 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 10th
Small Altars Book Launch and Reading with Keli Stewart + Stewart Conversation with Andrea Change
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, September 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Katie Paterson
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 28th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Dialogue/Presentation: Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán Exhibition (1977)
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 28th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Curator Conversations at 21c Museum Hotel
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21c Museum Hotel
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, September 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
Photography and Community with Deborah Willis
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Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 28th, from 7PM - 8:15PM
Option: Clayton Thomas
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Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, September 27th, at 8PM
Renée Green in conversation with Jordan Carter
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
online
Opening Monday, September 27th, at 6PM
Kara Walker and Hamza Walker in Conversation
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DuSable Museum of African American History
Opening Monday, September 27th, from 7PM - 8PM
VGA Fireside with Tanya DePass
@
VGA Gallery
Online
Opening Monday, September 27th, from 5PM - 5:50PM
Sensory-Friendly Morning
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, September 26th, from 10AM - 11:30AM
UNVEILING OF MURAL + MÚSIC and POETRY
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aracol Gathering Space
east of the lakefront path. Park at the northernmost lot of 31st St. Beach
Opening Sunday, September 26th, from 3PM - 6PM
2021 Filter Photo Festival Artist Talk: Guanyu Xu
@
21c Museum Hotel Chicago
Online
Opening Sunday, September 26th, at 12PM
Jonathan Castillo
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Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 26th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Evanston Art Center In Focus Lecture: Tanner Woodford, Designing a New Museum
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Evanston Art Center
Online
Opening Sunday, September 26th, from 3PM - 4PM
Dia De Muertos Sewing Workshop
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 26th, from 11AM - 2PM
Surface is Only a Material Vehicle For Spirit
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St. Floor 2, Chicago, IL, 60607
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, October 28th
Jamiah Calvin: Nothing was ever the same again
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Vertical Project Space
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 30th
2021 Filter Photo Festival Artist Talk: Oli Rodriguez
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
Online
Opening Saturday, September 25th, at 12PM
Mark Alcazar Diaz: Drift
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Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 12PM - 8PM
Springboard Arts Hosts Artist Talk with David Gista
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Springboard Arts Chicago
1910 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
HATORADE RETROGRADE: THE MUSICAL
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Henry C. Palmisano Nature Park
2700 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 4PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 26th
In The Realm Of Senses: Bach To The USSR, Music of Bach to the Beatles
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Fountain Square
1601 Sherman Ave, Evanston IL 60201
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
Young People’s Poetry Day: Marilyn Nelson
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Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 11AM - 11:40AM
Crystal Marie: Landscapes: Land & Body
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, October 12th
Marilyn Weisberg: New Florals & Feminine Figures
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, October 12th
Jason Houchen: Beautiful Masculinity: Pyrography
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, October 12th
Group Chat
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Julius Caesar
3311 W. Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60624
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
Alonso Galue: All The Brokenhearted People by: Closing Reception
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Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 12 PM - 4 PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Jessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster: Fifteen Seconds
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave. Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 7th
The Fluffy Crimes MANA Exhibit
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Fluffy Crimes
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 25th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 15th
Virtual Conversation: Da’shaun L. Harrison & Hanif Abdurraqib
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Friday, September 24th, at 4PM
Street Portraits: Dawoud Bey and Gregory Tate
@
Columbia College Student Center Auditorium
754 South Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, September 24th, from 5PM - 7PM
Collaborating with the Archive
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Force Majeure
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Tarble Arts Center
Eastern Illinois University, 2010 9th St, Charleston, IL 61920
On view through Saturday, December 4th
Yoko Ono: Mend Piece
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Tarble Arts Center
Eastern Illinois University, 2010 9th St, Charleston, IL 61920
On view through Saturday, December 4th
RAISIN Artist Talk: Gloria Talamantes
@
6018North
online
Opening Friday, September 24th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
RAISIN Community Conversation: Community Landscapes and Alternative Housing
@
6018North
Online
Opening Friday, September 24th, at 10AM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
2021 Filter Photo Festival Artist Talk: Sonja Thomsen
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 24th, at 3PM
Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 Wendy Ewald and Amalia Mesa-Bains
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 24th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, September 24th
Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright
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Wrightwood 659
659 W. Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, November 27th
Dimitri Pavlotsky: Portraits Inside Out
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Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 23rd
Renée Green: VIRTUAL SCREENINGS
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
On view through Thursday, September 30th
Sharon Okee-Chee Skolnick: This Is Indian Land, Okee-Chee’s Vision
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 24th, from 7PM - 8PM
Lúcia Prancha: Bread Story
@
table
3240 N Springfield Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, September 24th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 21st
Material Girls: Materiality in a Material World
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salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 24th, from 6 - 11PM
On view through Thursday, November 11th
PARENT|ARTIST
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Southspace
1109 E 55th Street, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, September 24th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Friday, October 22nd
From PAN to Bridge: Avant-Garde Publications in Perspective
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Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, September 23rd, at 6PM
Smart to the Core: Medium / Image
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Crip*
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
On view through Saturday, December 11th
See my story: Disucssion
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Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Thursday, September 23rd, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, September 2nd
Renée Green: THEATRICAL SCREENING
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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, September 23rd, at 6PM
Virtual Opening Discussion: Romanticism To Ruin
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Wrightwood 659
Online
Opening Thursday, September 23rd, at 5:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 27th
William Estrada in conversation with Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas O’neal
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DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, September 23rd, at 6PM
Jacolby Satterwhite in Conversation with Kishonna Gray
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Gallery 400
Online
Opening Thursday, September 23rd, from 5PM - 6PM
2021 Filter Photo Festival
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, September 26th
ART, WORK, GRANTS
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, September 22nd, at 3PM
2021 Filter Photo Festival Artist Talk: William Camargo
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, September 22nd, at 12PM
Sky Hopinka: Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, December 5th
Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, December 5th
Parlor Room Presents: Tonika Johnson
@
SAIC PHOTO
online
Opening Wednesday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Dear McSweeney’s
@
American Writers Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 21st, at 6:30PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Perzines Edition with Special Guests Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest
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Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 21st, at 7:30PM
Eric Leonardson
@
Jarvis Square Pottery
1443 West Jarvis Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Tuesday, September 21st, at 7:30PM
William S. Schwartz: Color and Coloratura
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Madron Gallery
1000 W North Ave, Third Floor, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Wednesday, November 24th
Option: Jessica Ackerley
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, September 20th, at 8PM
Claudia Hart: The Unfolding
@
Haynes
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 19th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 10th
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, January 24th
Steven Carrelli: Marginalia
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Cultivator
202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, September 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 19th
Yoonshin Park: Passing hours, space in between, I am breathing your air
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Cultivator
202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, September 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 19th
Mermaid Vibes/Rusalnaya
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Humboldt Park Pond
1200 N. Humboldt Blvd, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, September 19th, from 8PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 19th
David Shrobe: Riding the Wind’s Back
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moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Nazafarin Lotfi: Maps of No Return
@
Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Dutes Miller: Le Toucher
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Fleeting Saturday Concert: Kioto Aoki
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Lake Forest College
555 N Sheridan Rd, Lake Forest, IL, 60045
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, September 26th
Lauren Wy: AUTODESIRE: Volume 1
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
2021 Beverly Art Walk
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Beverly/Morgan Park
2135 W 95th St, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 12PM - 5PM
Synapse Arts: Mural Dances Summer Series #3
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Loyola Park
1230 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 1PM - 3PM
RAISIN Artist Talk: South Side Chicago Family of Brett Swinney
@
6018North
tune into Lumpen Radio
Opening Saturday, September 18th, at 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Melanie Schiff: Blind Spots
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, November 27th
Performance: Norman W. Long
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Friday, April 25th
Chicago Mobile Makers on Design for Community Wellbeing
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 11AM - 2PM
Carmen Winant: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, November 27th
Tongue in Cheek: Irreverence in Print
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Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Jin Lee: Views & Scenes
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Sunday, January 2nd
Christopher Smith: No Return
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 9th
Mara Baker: Remnant: New Monotypes
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620 Chicago Il 60603
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, October 22nd
Intersections – 3 Generations
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Stola Contemporary Art
3738 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618
On view through Sunday, October 31st
André Petty & Scott Mossman: Faces and Forms
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Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
305 SW Water St #2R, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, October 15th
Jonathan Muecke
@
Volume
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Deep, Far, Home
@
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Joan Goldin: Un Still Life
@
boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 4:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 23rd
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