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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Ziv Ze’ev Cohen: Remanence//Remnants
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062 Gallery
1029 W 35th St, 3210, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, August 5th
Neo-Lab 3: Comfortable Shoes
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The Neo-Futurists
5153 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Haskell Wexler: Medium Cool
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 8PM - 11PM
RED: Mask Off
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Lo Rez Brewing
2101 S Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
Candace Hunter / Arthur Wright / K~FLEYE by Kelley D. Moseley
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Faie African Art in Bronzeville
1005 E 43rd St, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
Jesse Malmed: Been Theres Then
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Wabash Arts Corridor Tour
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Columbia College Chicago
623 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Alberto Aguilar and Alex Bradley Cohen: Feeling Shapey
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Ocean Vuong: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Illustration Portrait Show 2019
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, August 2nd
Go Down Moses
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
TIES
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Interdisciplinary Art Critique
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Gallery Studio Oh!
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
MSAE Summer Soundwalks: Walking with the Limits of Gender
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Eckhart Park/Nightingale Micro Cinema
1330 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
Art of Science: Ecological Restoration Informed by Young Fossils
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Agitator: A Co-operative Gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
BUDS: a celebration of art made by friends, with friends, & for friends
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The Martin
2515 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
Forgotten Illinois
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North Shore Art League
620 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60693
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, August 9th
Molasses: Oasis
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Berlin Nightclub - Chicago
954 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 10PM - 4AM
Out of the Closets, into the Zines!: Queer Zine-Making Workshop
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The Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Speak On It
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OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 5PM - 9PM
Reclaim: Indigenizing Colonized Spaces: Adam Sings in the Timbr
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American Indian Center - Chicago
3401 W Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Tim Presley: Under The Banner of Concern
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Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, August 15th
In Conversation with The Tokyo Show: Black & Brown Are Beautiful
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2nd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Spike Lee: Mo’ Better Blues
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The Auditorium at Northeastern Illinois University
3701 W Bryn Mawr Ave, (inside of Building E) Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, from 7:30 PM - 10:o0 PM
AirGo Live! with guests Tasha and Eve L. Ewing
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Speaking Truths Series: Straddling the Borderland
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National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial
2831 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Conversation: A Collecting Journey
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
Sinema Obscura Presents: TV Party s3e6 feat. Thompson Springs
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
A Conversation on Propaganda & Printed Matter
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Cool Show Incoming!
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Abbey Cat Recordings
3646 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, at 8PM
David Gamble
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Hilton Asmus Contemporary
716 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
Michael Morley (Dead C. / Gate): The Never Quartet Project
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, July 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Creative Community: Daisaku Ueno & Hiroshi Mehata Artist Talk
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2nd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, July 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Memory Magic: A Journaling and Manifesting Workshop
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, July 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
Poets for Reproductive Justice
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Young Chicago Authors
1180 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Monday, July 15th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Poets for Reproductive Justice
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Young Chicago Authors
1180 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Monday, July 15th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Katinka Kleijn and Bill MacKay
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, July 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
A Forward Movement
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Peoria Magazines
4736 N University Street, Peoria, IL 61614
Opening Monday, July 15th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, September 30th
Wandering Uterus Project: Fibers Circle
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Monday, July 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Memorial for Jno Cook
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Chicago Theater Works
1113 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
Consular Series: Rescue in the Caribbean: Jewish Refugees in the Dominican Republic
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Illinois Holocaust Museum
9603 Woods Dr, Skokie, IL 6007
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Slow-Res: a Free and Self-Taught MFA Community
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Read/Write Library
914 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
Cathy Hsiao and Lakshmi Ramgopal: Mala/Maalai
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Ante Scriptum
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The Condo Association
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
Strange Bird Art Show
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FinomCoffee
4200 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Woman Made Gallery Reading Series: Building Blocks and Elements
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Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 2PM - 4PM
Amanda Sukenick & Andrew Ek
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Landing Projects
2858 W Belle Plaine Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Bonnie Glassner
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StudioUs
4806 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
Wade In The Waters of Our Ancestors
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South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Monday, July 22nd
INSIDE OUTSIDE
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Apparatus Projects
2639 W Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60625
On view through Saturday, August 24th
Open Dialogue: On Style and Sustainability with Everybody.World
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Wabash Arts Corridor Tour
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Columbia College Chicago
623 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 11am - 12:30am
The Search for General Tso
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 4PM
Barrio Arts Fest
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The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
80 Years Young: A Birthday Party Bash for Hyde Park Art Center
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 9AM - 7PM
Juan Molina Hernández: autoretrato o piel vieja y lo que sobra de una manda cumplida (self-portrait or old skin and remnants of a prayer answered)
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Manifestations: Artist Talk
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One After 909
906 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 13th
The Hippest Trip In America: Soul Train
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 3PM
Kit Everson: Cheeky
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Loo
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Meet Artist Jennifer Cronin
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
LIE: Basics
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Chicago Truborn
1741 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
Marion Kryczka: Closing Reception
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Eat Paint Studio
5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 20th
Tim Nickodemus & Eric Ruschman: To draw nothing. Or the sea
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Slow
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Naimah Thomas: Wounded Healer
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Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 4PM - 6PM
Separate Waves
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
Keith R. Sbiral: Artist Talk & Photo Walk
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Tamarkin Camera
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 11AM - 3PM
On view through Thursday, August 1st
Cultural Transit Assembly: Launch Party
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Garfield Park Gold Dome Fieldhouse
100 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 6PM
The Judith Contingent: MELD
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DMen Tap
2849 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
The Tokyo Show: Black & Brown Are Beautiful
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Hyde Park Art Center, Kanter McCormick Gallery
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
Sewing Projects: Quilted Pillows and Pouches
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SAIC at Homan Square
906 S Homan Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Eve L. Ewing: Ironheart
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FIRST AID COMICS
1617 East 55th St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 12PM - 2PM
MSAE Summer Soundwalks: Field Recording Workshop
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West Ridge Nature Preserve
5801 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 10AM - 5PM
Figment Chicago
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Mozart Park
2036 N Avers Ave. Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 1PM - 6PM
Meg Leary: Commedia and Scott Horsley: Annihilation Game
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Red Rover Series Experiment #119: Solidarity Forever / A Walking Poem
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Larry's at The Lawrence House
1020 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Gentrification Without Art Displacement
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 1PM - 2PM
A Womb of Their Own
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First Unitarian Church of Chicago
5650 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 1PM - 5PM
Renato Esquivel: Reflections
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LALUZ Gallery
1545 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Gira Dahnee / J Bambii / Jalen Kobayashi
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Take Action to End Criminalization, Detention, & Deportations
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Daley Center Plaza
50 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 11AM - 1PM
Michael Kaysen
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65GRAND
3252 West North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 13th, at 2:30PM
On view through Saturday, July 13th
Mau Mau: Bombing walls and painting bridges
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Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Benefit for the ‘In the Name of Humanity’ Mural Project
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Veranda Pizza and Coffee Shop
1100 W Thorndale Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Chris Pappan & Debra Yepa-Pappan: Interruptions
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
Poetry Off the Shelf: Chicago Modernism with Daniel Borzutzky and Rachel Galvin
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Screening: Yara Travieso: La Medea
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, July 12th, at 7PM
Graham v Connor 1989. Fighting Police Violence in Chicago
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Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 660608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 2nd
MSAE Summer Soundwalks: Oumuamua
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Ping Tom Memorial Park
1700 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Whit Forrester and Roni Packer: Coning
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Aspect/Ratio
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Dark Divisions of Labor: Keijaun Thomas’ “My Last American Dollar”
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Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Tami Bahat: Past is Present
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Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, August 30th
Matter of Emotion
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
a yolk, suspended
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Annas
629 W Cermak Rd, Suite 240, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
The Art Social
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NYCH Gallery
2025 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 16th
Hannah McMaster: Knot Sum
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The Martin
2515 W North Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, July 21st
Jon Veal: Blonde Judas
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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Zakkiyyah Najeebah: Relearning With Mentions
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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Martha Tuttle
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, August 14th
Tender Alchemists
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Basic Studios
3551 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
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