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Tom Meacham: Simile
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Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
David Cordero: NEAR MISS
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Space & Time
3307 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
Perceptions of Flow “Movement”
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Julie Rotblatt Amrany: The Process of Discovery
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Sunday, April 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
OCFF 2024: NOCTURNAL CACOPHONY
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 9PM - 10:30PM
Unbroken Chain
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The Franklin
3522 W Franklin Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 1st
Freedom From and Freedom To
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 6th, at 7PM
OCFF 2024: LEFT HANDED MEMORIES: The Films of Shellie Fleming
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 6th, at 7PM
Kevin Beasley: Plastic/Soul/Capture/Play – Notes in Public
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Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 6th, at 6:30PM
Austy Universe: Current Developments
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Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 6th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Brad Stumpf and Jeffly Gabriela Molina: Esta Casa Es Un Cuerpo / This House Is A Body
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ARTRUSS
4553 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 26th
The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige
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Hyde Park Arts Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Impact Performance Festival
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SAIC 280 Building, 012 Performance Space
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
The Art and History of the Toothpick
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Rare Nest Gallery
3433 North Kedvale Ave. Chicago 60641
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
OCFF 2024: FROM WOMEN FOR EVERYONE
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Shinique Smith: METAMORPH
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moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Sangwoo Yoo: Ephemeral Echoes
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Fingers and Treasures: Workshop, Exhibition and Open Studio
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
SAI Screenings: Before You Were My Mother
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South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 3:30PM - 5PM
OCFF 2024: THE WISDOM TOOTH
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Laura Citarella: Trenque Lauquen (2023)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 6th, at 3PM
Nicole Eisenman and David Velasco in Conversation
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
Grid Luck
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Mayfield
505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, IL 60130
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles and free public programming
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, June 16th
Parapluie
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
The Secrets Women Keep
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Independence Branch, Chicago Public Library
4024 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 3PM
Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Drifting En A Memory: Chicago Youth Art Challenge
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The Study at University of Chicago
1227 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 12PM - 6PM
Center Days
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 1PM - 4PM
MA Visual & Critical Studies Symposium & Exhibition
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MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 11AM - 5PM
2024 School of Art & Design MFA Exhibition
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 6th, at 12PM delete
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
WILLIAM J. O’BRIEN: Freak Flags
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Ackerman Clarke
2544 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Saturday, May 18th
[We Don’t Know Yet] What a Cinema Can Do: A Night of Live Sound and Moving Image
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Public Works
2141 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 8PM - 11PM
Maeve Coughlin: Someone Who Isn’t Me
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SULK CHICAGO
525 S Dearborn St, Apt 209, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
OCFF 2024: LIGHT BATH
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Fever Dream Dance Collective Presents: The Collection
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Guerrilla Television: FOUR MORE YEARS (1972)
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 5th, at 7PM
Pat Marek: Human by Accident
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Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
IVORY & INK
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
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Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
In These Trying Times: A Conversation on Walter Benjamin and History
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Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, April 5th, at 6PM
JENAL DOLSON: Radicle Dream
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
BODY/MATTER
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
Carolyn Cardenas and Bobby Ross: Familiar Stories
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August House Studio
2113 W Roscoe St, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Lawrence Agyei: DRILL
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Lay Of(f) the Land: Nordic Narratives
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Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 16th
The Veil
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Twelve Ten Gallery
1210 West Thorndale Ave. Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
This Living Earth – Our Shared Gaia
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Beverly Arts Center
2407 W 111th St, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60655
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 5th
Czr Prz: Travel Through the Ether
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Lynn Basa | Christine Forni | Bobbi Meier: THICK-SKINNED
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 5th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Jordan Porter Woodruff – PORTRAITS: Working Hands
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 5th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Khleo Morris: Instrumental
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 5th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
DOOMSCAPES AND THE DIGITAL BEYOND
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
A NEW LANGUAGE: SPEAKING WITH THE EARTH
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Xiao Space Art
1522 Greenleaf St, Suite B, Evanston IL 60202
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 26th
Beyond Canvas: AI, Abstraction, and Architectural Expressions
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Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 5th, at 5PM
This Long Pursuit
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 4th
Spring Undergraduate Exhibition
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SAIC Galleries
33 E, Washington St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 13th
Grant William Thye: Release
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Vertical
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
11-Year Anniversary Show
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Vertical
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Puerto Rican Archives: Preserving Community Memory
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National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 5th, from 9:30AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
LSD Wall (1965) / Deadly Weapons (1974)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 4th, at 9:30PM
OCFF 2024 OPENING NIGHT: TOUTE UNE NUIT by Chantal Akerman
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 4th, at 8:15PM
MERGE: Program Two: Freedom From and Freedom To & Kinnari Vora
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Steppenwolf Theatre
1650 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 4th, at 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 6th
Comfort Music + Homeroom: Alpert/Kohl/Hall
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
BUTT STUFF FLOWER BUSH by Sam Herschel Wein
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, April 4th, at 7PM
Woven Abstractions
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Awakenings Art
4001 N Ravenswood Ave, Suite 204-C, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Regin Igloria: Seven Skins Community Binding Workshop 2
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Nichos
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Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
System and Dialectics of Art
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Madron Gallery
1000 W North Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Friday, June 14th
Asian Pop-Up Cinema: DRIFTING FLOWERS, FLOWING DAYS (2022)
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 4th, at 5:30PM
Onion City Experimental Film Festival
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Onion City Experimental Film Festival
Various Locations
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Moraine Valley Juried Student Art Exhibition
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Robert F. DiCaprio Art Gallery at Moraine Valley Community College
9000 College Pkwy, Palos Hills, IL 60465
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Literary Arts Lab: Opening Panel on Art & Wonder
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 4th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 5th
Michael Haneke: Funny Games (1997)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
WHIM Visual Artist Series: Marie Magnetic
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Whim Chicago @ Stage 773
1225 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
Smart Salon: Meiji Architecture and the Built Environment
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
David Lamelas: This Is My Place
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Asian Pop-Up Cinema: MY FAVORITE LOVE STORY (2023)
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd, at 5:30PM
Culture of Care with Rhonda Wheatley: Releasing the Past & Cutting Ties
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Threewalls
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Matthew Metzger in conversation with Andi Crist, Katelyn Patton, and Samuel Schwindt
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 3rd, from 12PM - 1PM
Josiah McElheny presents “Imaginary Modernism: Hilma af Klint and Blinky Palermo”
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Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 2nd, at 7PM
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970) / The Story of a Three Day Pass (1967)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 2nd, at 7PM
TANDA: Red Diaper Babies: Childhood in the League of Revolutionary Struggle by Maggie Wong
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Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 2nd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
NEPTUNE FROST
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, April 2nd, at 6PM
Kimsooja & Jaeho Chong in Conversation
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The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, April 2nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Shame of Chicago: Preview Screening and Conversation
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Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Tuesday, April 2nd, at 7PM
Billy Woodberry: Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 1st, at 7PM
Brendan Fernandes: New Monuments (Open Rehearsal)
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, April 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
Visiting Artist Talk: Iman Raad
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Kresge Hall, Northwestern University
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Monday, April 1st, at 5PM
Jessica Stockholder: For Events
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Hutchinson Courtyard, The University of Chicago
1131 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 1st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
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