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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
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Weighted Blanket
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl. 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, September 1st
Kaleidoscope: Closing Night
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VibrantCast Gallery
4319 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 19th
Deborah Stratman: LAST THINGS: and short films by Shambhavi Kaul
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Go forth and set the world on fire*
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Friday, July 19th, at 6PM
On view through Tuesday, September 30th
Lois Stone: Roots Of Creativity
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Scars & Stripes
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Project Onward
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 19th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Sara Peak Convery: Allegiance
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 31st
Dwight White: RESET
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 7th
Darin Latimer: Fix your Hearts or Die (War on Every Corner)
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 31st
Emma Welch: FTC
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ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 31st
Salvador Dominguez: Mano de Obra
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ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 31st
vanessa german: At the end of this reality there is a bridge—the bridge is inside of you but not inside of your body. Take this bridge to get to the next _______, all of your friends are there; death is not real and we are all dj’s.
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 15th
Peter Broitman: Humans (Mostly)
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The Chicago Cultural Center, The Renaissance Room
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, August 28th
Cornelia’s Lounge: An Immersive Juke Joint Experience
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Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
3601 W Douglas Blvd, Chicago, IL 60623
On view through Sunday, August 25th
In Conversation with Dale Washington
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Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Friday, September 6th
Comfort Music: Gerrit Hatcher and Weasel Walter
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Artist Talk with David Lee Csicsko on his Exhibit: Mr. Fancy Pants: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ ICONS
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Meredith Talusan: Toward an Integrated Art Practice : Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
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MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Kendall Hill: FEVERDREAMS: Launch Party
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Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
Panel Discussion with Kean O’Brien
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LATITUDE CHICAGO
Online
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Third Thursday Gallery Tour
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 6:45PM
Art After Work: Cyanotypes with Arts of Life’s Carol Pyes
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Arts of Life
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Pit Stop: Exhibition tour and Panel discussion
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Kabuki-Actor Portraits by Tōshūsai Sharaku
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, July 18th, at 12PM delete
On view through Monday, October 14th
Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change with Maria Hawilo
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, July 17th, at 7PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Heliacal Rising of Sothis, featuring Sharon Udoh and Yaw Agyeman
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave Chicago IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, July 16th, from 5:30 PM - 8PM
Photos at Noon Guest Led by Terry Evans: Photographing the Midwest Landscape
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, July 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
Michael Rakowitz: Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
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MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, July 15th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Black Entanglements
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Sunday, July 14th, at 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, August 25th
OPTION: Brandon Seabrook
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
SACBE: Pathways of Connection
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
LOST ARTISTS CHICAGO OPEN STUDIOS AND GALLERIES
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Lost Artists Chicago
2620 W Fletcher St, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 12PM - 5PM
Family Day: Thank You Two: VSG’s 2nd Anniversary Celebration
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VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60642
Opening Sunday, July 14th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Side Yard Sounds presents: Harry Tonchev Trio
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compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Lands of Dual 11: Performance
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
SINCE THOU WAST PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT, VOL. 2
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Summer Soundwalk Series: Good City Group with Sam Anthem
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Emmerson (Louis) Park
1820 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun) 1978
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Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, #420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, July 13th, at 6PM
Marcin Wilk: Marching Wolf’s America
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Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, July 17th
Doug Stapleton: False Augury: Collages and Objects
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 14th
Connectivity
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Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Luke Shemroske: Shed Skin: Artist Talk
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Project Onward
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, July 12th
THANK YOU TWO: VSG’s 2nd Anniversary Celebration
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VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
Lecture: Capturing the Electric Pulse—Georgia O’Keeffe and the Stieglitz Circle
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 3PM
Live Arts | Jamshid Jam Performance
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave Chicago IL 60611
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, September 14th
Jessie Mott in Conversation with Lauren Leving
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
the urban+nature sonic pavilion
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Millennium Park
201 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 1PM - 4PM
LOW-RESIDENCY MFA EXHIBITION
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SAIC GALLERIES
33 E WASHINGTON ST, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour with Salvador Campos
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Harold Washington Library Center
400 S State St, Chicago. IL 60605
Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 12PM - 1PM
24th Annual 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 - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
Where a knot begins and ends
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Quiet Comfort: Ro Lundberg & Ben Willis
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
The Diary of Saint Ki
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Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 9th
CURATORS OF DIXON SCHOOL: 10 Year Anniversary Screening
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, July 12th, at 7PM
Ways of Dwelling A Conversation Through Art
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Jewlya Sturtevant- “Berserk Through A Flower Field” Closing Reception
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Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 12th
No Role Models
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Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, August 22nd
Christian Campos: Unnatural History
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Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, August 22nd
Interwoven Spaces: Layers of Memory
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Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, #845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Jamaal Durr: Fear Is A Joke
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T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
Elizabeth Burke-Dain: Matching The Drapes
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oka Park, IL.
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Jack Scott: When Things Were Real
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Circa Modern
329 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
Denise Siegel: Process Bared
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VibrantCast Gallery
4313 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 13th
Walden [verb]
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, July 25th
Hidden Tales
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The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
better together.
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Chicago Center for Arts and Technology
1709 W 13th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, July 30th
Diego de la Rosa: The Night You Love Me
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Povos Downtown
600 W Van Buren St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 9PM
Karen Perl: When the Dream Came
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Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 24th
Voices Embodied: Reverberations
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Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 11th
In Bloom
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Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 8th
ebere agwuncha: soft structures
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, August 29th
Human Resources
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, August 29th
Surprise
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, August 15th
Veil, Drape, and Stitch
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, August 15th
Vera Klement: After a Life
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, August 15th
Evanston Plein Air Festival
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Rotary International in Downtown Evanston
1560 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 21st
Jesse Ly: Take Time, Try
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The Weather Station
658 Main Street, Suite 212, Lafayette, IN
On view through Saturday, August 24th
Cristina Mittermeier: Hope: A Prelude
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Hilton Contemporary
716 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Friday, August 30th
Jack Scott: When Things Were Real
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Circa Modern, Design at 329
329 W 18th St, Ste 507, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 14th
Be of Love: Care in an Age of Discontent
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Public Works
2141 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, September 1st
Comfort Music: Heavy Tiny and Graciela Gonzalez
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 11th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony: Patricia Smith
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, July 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
Aruna D’Souza: Imperfect Solidarities : Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
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MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, July 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Tenebrae
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Weatherproof
3336 W Lawrence Ave #303, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, July 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, August 18th
A Landmark of Work: African Americans in Decorative Arts
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, July 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Remembering Chryssa’s Lost Sculpture
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Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, July 11th, at 6 PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Tom Sachs: Drawings and Sound Systems
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ANTHONY GALLERY
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, July 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
John Himmelfarb: How Things Stack Up
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Koehnline Museum of Art
1600 E Golf Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60016
Opening Thursday, July 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 20th
Kathy Weaver: Making a Scene
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Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University
1 University Parkway, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Thursday, July 11th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, August 2nd
Comfort Film Presents: Commodity Trading: Dies Irae (2022)
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 10th, from 8PM - 10PM
Reminisce: A Sound Activation
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cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, July 10th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Gallery Talk with Antonia Contro
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, July 10th, from 12PM - 1PM
Commodity Trading: Dies Irae by M Woods
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Comfort Film
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 10th, from 8PM - 10PM
FEK Draw: Fetish, Erotica and Kink
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, July 9th, from 7PM - 9PM
Faylita Hicks: A Map of My Want: Book Launch
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Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Tuesday, July 9th, from 7PM - 9PM
Sacred Harp
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, July 9th, from 7PM - 9PM
Eric Von Haynes: Drawn Through Restraint: Riso Printing Workshop
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, July 9th, at 6PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Shaun J. Wright
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, July 9th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
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