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Copyright 2016
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and Steve Ruiz
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Couture: Fashion Design Studies from the late 1930s and early 1940s
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Richard Norton Gallery
612 Merchandize Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Friday, December 31st
Option: Guilherme Granado
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Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, November 29th, at 8PM
Small Works Members Exhibition
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Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport, #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 27th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Chicago South Side Film Festival
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Chicago South Side Film Festival
Various locations
On view through Sunday, December 5th
Sinner’s Friend: winter performance series
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, November 27th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Football Practice: Imagining Football Futures
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High Concept Labs & Video Game Art Gallery
Online
Opening Sunday, November 21st, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, February 6th
Yoga + Art
@
salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, November 21st, from 12PM - 1PM
Matt Irie: Arresting Gestures
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, November 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Visual Melodies
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Art of Gallery
747 S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 1PM - 9PM
Andrea Bowers
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
On view through Saturday, March 27th
as a sort of cloud rather than a bubble
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LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, January 16th
Rod Slemmons: Negatives
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
Kiff Slemmons: Tag, You’re It!
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, November 20th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, December 3rd
Caesura Magazine Issue 1 Launch
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Prairie
2055 W Cermak Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Documentarian Presents: Paige Naylor, Friedrich Andreoni, Devin Shaffer
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Buddy at Chicago Culutral Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 2PM - 5PM
SLAYSIAN 2.0
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Co-Prosperity Gallery
3219 S Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 15th
Laura O’Connor: Embroidery as Testimony and Dissent
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Transcend:distance: ENCAUSTIC GROUP EXHIBITION
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Michael Litewski: The Rosetta Stone
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, November 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Everyone Together: Dialogue + Shaking
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, November 20th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
Rachel Harrison: Assorted Varieties
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, January 8th
12x12x12 Small Works
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3D4D
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 10th
RAISIN Artist Talk: Delilah Salgado, Kioto Aoki, and Jared Brown
@
6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, November 19th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Andrea Bowers: Opening Talk
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 5:45PM - 6:45PM
On view through Saturday, March 27th
WINTER ARTS & CRAFTS EXPO PREVIEW PARTY
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
You’re Welcome: Closing Reception
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Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
Haylie Jimenez & Sydnie Jimenez: Can We Get Something Sweet?
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Mud Dwellers
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Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 26th
Jose Luis Benavides: Letters to Lost Loved Ones and Other Works
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Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Apt. A, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, November 19th, at 7PM
MATERIAL GIRLS: Closing Reception
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salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Ste 500, Chicago, IL, 60609
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, November 19th
ANDREW EK: The Cleve Carney Museum of Art
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The Apothecary
1200 W. 35th Str, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, January 7th
Ben LaMar Gay: Open Arms to Open Us: Record Release Party
@
606 Records
1808 S Allport St, Chicago, Ill. 60608
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 5PM - 7PM
Modern Baroque.
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
Charlotte Cornfield w/ Case Oats
@
Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, November 18th, at 9:30PM
Both And: Artists Talk
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid
Mana Contemporary, 2233 S Throop St, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, November 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Regin Igloria in conversation with Rachel L. S. Harper
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, November 18th, at 6PM
Trivia Night: Wild Color
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Field Museum
1400 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, November 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, November 18th
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, November 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
One Night Stand: Howard Finster
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 17th, from 6:30PM - 7PM
Jason Salavon
@
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, November 17th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Mini Golf Course Challenge
@
Indiana University Northwest Anderson Library
100 W 35th Ave, Gary, IN 46408
On view through Saturday, January 29th
THIRZA CUTHAND: NDN SURVIVAL TRILOGY and other works
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, November 17th, at 7 PM
Your artwork has been accepted…now what?
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3D4D
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, November 16th, at 6PM
Write Club: Angstgiving
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Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, November 16th, at 6PM
Chicago and Civil Rights in the 1960s
@
Newberry Library
online
Opening Tuesday, November 16th, from 5PM - 6PM
Public Health ( The Road To Healthy Living )
@
Roseland Hospital
45 W 111th St, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Tuesday, November 16th, from 12PM - 10PM
Option: Cecilia Lopez and Joe Moffett
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Monday, November 15th, at 8PM
Virtual Reading: CRIP KINSHIP by Shayda Kafai
@
Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Monday, November 15th, at 7PM
Kabir Dalawari Quartet & Bradfield/Johnson/Ulery/Kirchner
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave. #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, November 15th, from 8PM - 11PM
Into the Archive: A Virtual Conversation with Black Film Archive Creator Maya Cade
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Monday, November 15th, at 6PM
November Inkjet Transfer Workshop
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LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, November 14th, from 11AM - 4PM
Rebecca Keller: Portable Memorials and Abject Objects: Artist Talk
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Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, November 14th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, November 27th
Allison Wade: Cosmic Fishing
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Devening Projects
3039 West Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Thursday, December 30th
Guzzo Pinc
@
Devening Projects
3039 West Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Thursday, December 30th
Arpillera Workshop: La parte de atrás de la arpillera
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave
Opening Sunday, November 14th, from 2PM - 4PM
Lion vs. Gorilla: Internal / External
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, November 14th, from 1PM - 5PM
Handmade Market
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The Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 12PM - 4PM
¡HOT MESS!
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave. #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 13th, at 4:20PM
Teju Cole: Black Paper
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Screening room 201, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 10:30AM - 11:30AM
EPP Electronic Placebo Phenomenon
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Humbolt Park Formal Garden Pavilion
1400 N Humboldt Dr, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, November 13th
Melissa Potter: Invisible Labors: Prairie Plant Carbon Sequestering and Papermaking Garden
@
boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Monday, November 15th
La parte de atrás de la arpillera
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Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Apt. A, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, November 13th, at 7PM
Sarah Krepp: ….VROOM!
@
OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, January 15th
David Taylor
@
The McAninch Arts Center
425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 9PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 13th
Rachel Hefferan: Fermented Fiber: Art + Cider Tasting
@
salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 4PM - 6PM
Lakefront Anonymous: Chicago’s Unknown Art Gallery
@
1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Sky Hopinka: MALNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (2020)
@
Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, November 13th, at 1 PM
Jillian Tamaki: Reading for Young People
@
Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, November 13th, from 11AM - 11:30AM
Bridge Dance Festival 2021
@
Links Hall
Online
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 13th
Present Artifacts
@
Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
On view through Friday, January 21st
A Gathering of Dreams Closing Reception
@
Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Queer Comedy hosted by Tribble
@
Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
Art Talks! with Block Student Associates
@
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
Lauralynn White: Journey
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Dusti Bongé: Southern Exposure
@
McCormick Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Friday, January 8th
Nelson Morales: Disobedient Bodies
@
Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Looking Out
@
Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 17th
Andrew Steiner: Available Light
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Eat Paint Studio
5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 11th
Meditations for Imaginations
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave (second floor), Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 7PM - 8PM
Fermented Fiber: Art + Cider Tasting with Rachel Hefferan and Virtue Cider
@
salonlb.
1010 West 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, November 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Quiet Pterodactyl and Lumpen Radio’s The Minimal Beat presents: MIIRRORS w/ Moritat & DJ Quin Kirchner
@
Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, November 11th, at 9:30PM
stein/jackson/reed/kirshner
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave. #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, November 11th, at 8:30PM
A Conversation with Gordon Segal
@
Chicago Collections Consortium
Online
Opening Thursday, November 11th, at 6PM
The Sweetest Gift: A Farewell to Reunion Chicago
@
Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, November 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 20th
Jeff Garlin: Big Bowl of Wonderful
@
Tamarkin Camera
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, November 11th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Thursday, December 23rd
Making Rituals Workshop with A.Martinez: Part 3 featuring Cristal Sabbagh
@
Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, November 11th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
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, November 11th, at 12:30PM
D’Angelo Lovell Williams and Derrick Woods-Morrow: Exercising Fellowship
@
Gallery 400
Online
Opening Thursday, November 11th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Soft Allergy
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, November 11th, from 9am - 5PM
On view through Friday, February 18th
Naomi Kaempfer
@
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, November 11th, from 12PM - 1PM
Justin Schmitz: In The Mistt
@
McHenry County College
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
Opening Thursday, November 11th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, December 17th
Siv B. Lie: Django Generations
@
57th Street Books
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 10th, from 2PM - 3PM
Suzanne Cope presents “Power Hungry” with Cleo Silvers
@
Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 10th, from 6:30PM - 7;30PM
Jan Pieter Fokkens
@
PAGODA RED
1740 West Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, January 9th
Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series
@
Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, November 10th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Deep Cuts Programs
@
Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Wednesday, November 10th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, November 11th
Maria Gaspar
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, November 10th, at 6PM
Lecture in Photography: Nancy Floyd
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, November 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
A Scientist Walks Into A Bar
@
Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, November 9th, at 6:30PM
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