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Open House
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Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Katie Neece: Haunted Nostalgia: the mall with be closing in 10 minutes…
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Middle Child Gallery
2233 S. Throop St, #950, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
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Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 15th
Louise Pappageorge: Intimacy of the Hand
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ALMA Art and Interiors
3636 S Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, June 1st
Theodora Allen: Solitaire
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Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, May 12th
EXPO CHICAGO 2023: Dialogues April 13
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Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 1:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
EXPO CHICAGO 2023
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Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Boil, Toil & Trouble
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Art in Common
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, April 23rd
Artini at Gallery Guichard
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Gallery Guichard
436 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Art and Craft of Bookbinding Workshop
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Patrick Eugène: 50 Lbs.
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MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Comfort Music+ : Homeroom presents Juliana Castro Duperly / Jasmine Mendoza
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Improvised Music Series: The Brunt
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, April 13th, at 8:30PM
Urania and the Asclepiades: A Magic Lantern performance by Artemis Willis
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 13th, at 7PM
Reparations of the Heart: Recent Work by Kristin Anahit Cass
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Stamelos Gallery Center
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
EXPO CHICAGO 2023: Vernissage
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Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
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Haymarket Books
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 2PM - 3:30
Tony Fitzpatrick: The Lunch Drawings
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Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre presents: Inside/Out with IDENTITY CITY / BECOMING
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Kay Hofmann: Being and Becoming
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Dario Robleto and Malcolm MacIver: At the Limits of Life and Empathy
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
2133 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Andrew Paul Davis: An Hour of Film and Music
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 8PM - 10PM
Mika Horibuchi: Showcase
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Jessi Reaves and Diane Simpson in Conversation with Historian Kate Nesin
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, at 6PM
Toward an Anti-Racist Art Ecosystem Conference Series
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
At the Limits of Life and Empathy: Dario Robleto and Malcolm MacIver
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 9th
THE WANDERING WOMB by S.L. Wisenberg
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, at 7PM
En Iwamura: Blue on the Hill
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ANTHONY GALLERY
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, at 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
For Freedoms News
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Monday, April 17th
zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
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Arts Incubator Gallery
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
Dave Eggers Does Something Interesting at Quimby’s For His Book The Eyes & The Impossible
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Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, at 7PM
Nick Estes and Dallas Goldtooth: Environmental, Activist, and Indigenous Energies
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Latino Writers Initiative
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National Museum of Mexican Art
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, at 6PM
2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 2: CTRL + histories
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, April 22nd
Calling on the Past
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
Tanda: Afterlife Assemblage: Craft as Speculative Framework for Memorial Practice
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Monday, April 10th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Skin + Masks III: Artist Talk
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
535 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, April 10th, at 5:30PM
Anagram Series: Unknown New
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, April 10th, at 8PM
Design and Solidarity Book Launch
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Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Monday, April 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
NIGHTINGALE PROJECTS: THE INFERNAL GROVE
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, April 10th, at 6PM
Bird Architecture
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Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Monday, April 17th
My Body is a Temple
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Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 17th
Jojo Baby – A Celebration of Life
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Metro Chicago
3730 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 7PM - 11PM
Visiting the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago
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Oriental Institute
1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 12PM - 4PM
Shake Shook Shaken: SHAPE w/ Hunter Diamond
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, April 8th, at 12PM
Latinos in Illinois and the USA: Music as a Cultural History
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Glen Carbon Centennial Library
198 S Main St, Glen Carbon, IL 62034
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 2PM - 3PM
Prosthesis
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Haynes Court
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Traditional Jazz: A Historical Perspective of Early Jazz from the New Orleans and Chicago Era
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Lombard Historical Society
23 W Maple St, Lombard, IL 60148
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 2PM - 3PM
Virginia Martinez: Adventures with Abuela
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 8th, at 1PM
Through and Through
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Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Marie Magnetic: Junoesque
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Little Broken Things
2031 N Milwaukee Ave, #2031, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 19th
Rebecca Griffith + Lauren Iacoponi: There Is Time To Grow Old
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Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, #845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Lotus Laurie Kang: Atrium Project
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, February 11th
On Horizons: Art Talks! With Block Student Associates
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 12:30PM - 10PM
Honestly Same & Ali/Meryhew/Mendoza
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Jackie Furtado and Jessica Tang: The table in the formal room takes the form of the room
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Produce Model Gallery
1918 S Canalport Ave, Chicago IL 60616
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Natalie Shugailo: Everything Fades
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Riverside Arts Center Town Hall Gallery
27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, June 30th
Gio Swaby: Fresh Up
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Thursday, July 6th
Conversation: Gio Swaby—Love Letters
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 2PM - 3PM
2023 Spring Undergraduate Exhibition
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SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 15th
Caitlyn Doran: Wishful Thinking
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Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 14th
The Taxonomy of Peggy Macnamara: Artist Talk
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Dark Matter Series: Oui Ennui, Jada-Amina
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 7th, at 8PM
Quality Control
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Sunday, May 14th
DONNIE NIE: Envisaged Potentials
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Sunday, May 14th
Jaume Plensa: Forgotten Dreams
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Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 4:30 PM - 6 PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Michael Madrigali: Big City Nights
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MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Gifted Wings: Closing Reception
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Jude Gallery
629 W Cermak, Unit 240, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 7th
Cristi López: Unravel: Portraits of My Obsessions
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A Very Serious Gallery
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Ben Zucker
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 7th, at 7PM
Open Classroom screening: Aliens (1986)
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 7th, at 7PM
R&C Spring Gala: Easter Eggs
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Roots & Culture @ Fairlie
339 N Bell Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 11PM
Jackson Moran & Pete Willson: ELECTRIC DITCH
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Droll
3337 S Wallace St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, May 5th
Spencer Finch: La Grande Jatte
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, May 13th
2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 1: a series of encounters: Panel Discussion and Closing Reception
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
“where the light corrupts your face…”
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South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 31st
Figures
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Chicago Fine Art Salon
2623 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 9PM
For Eternity: 45 Years Of Prince
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Retreat at Currency Exchange
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 9PM
Pia Cruzalegui / Elaine Luther
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Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
2023 UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition 1: a series of encounters
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UIC Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Bryana Bibbs: Numb
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
King’s Big Art Show
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Kane Space
2316 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Jessica Laser, S. Yarberry, Jake Fournier and Sasha Debevec-McKenney celebrate PLANET DRILL
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 7PM - 8PM
Amuleto
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, August 13th
TRACE EVIDENCE by Charif Shanahan
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Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 6:30PM
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Comfort Music+ : Homeroom presents Mallory Qiu’s Choo-Choo-Choo-Choo Station
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Eseosa Edebiri: Perhaps Blue is a Cool Color, After All
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ACRE Projects
2439 S Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Medical Projections: Surgery, Disease, Physiology, and Health in Early Cinema (1892-1909)
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 7PM
Joanne Aono, Christine Forni, and Deanna Krueger Artist Talk
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Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University
1 University Parkway, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, April 7th
Claudia Hart: MEMORY THEATER
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Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 6PM
Ann Johnson: Converse & Real Talk
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 5:30PM
On the Long 1960s: Sam Nhlengethwa and Boitumelo Tumi Tlhoaele
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Smart Museum of Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 5th, at 12PM
Jose Olivarez – Promises of Gold
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Volumes Bookcafe
1373 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Links Soirée
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The Golden Triangle
2035 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
Illinois Libraries Present: Danny Trejo
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Forest Park Public Library
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 7PM - 8PM
OUTspoken! LGBTQ+ Storytelling
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Sidetrack The Video Bar
3349 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, at 7PM
The Federal Art Project Collection of Western Illinois University
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Western Illinois University
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 14th
Athena LaTocha Lecture
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The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
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