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Art Around Town Fri May 18 2012

Art Around Town

Tonight

  • Husband, Robby MacBain, and Hannah Verrill: Nearer to Know Less (performances) @ Alderman Exhibitions
  • 8 x 8 at The Coop
  • A MICROGALLERY :: Galerie F Fundraising Event @ Finch's Beer Company
  • Sex, Spraypaint & Satire: Parody without Humor @ Grand Bizarre
  • Culture Shocked @ Design Cloud
  • a PERSONAL PROJECT show @ Defibrillator
  • And then... @ Lillstreet Art Center
  • Artists of Eastbank Open Studios @ Bridgeport Art Center
  • Phase 1 / Live Archive and Outreach Center @ Versionfest
  • Versionfest Friday Night of action @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • Brian Kapernekas: 40,000 Fathoms Before the Eye @ 65GRAND
  • Nick Black: The Road to Candyland @ Antena

    • Saturday:

  • The Empty Vessel @ Manifest Exhibitions
  • Thorne Brandt and Chris Collins: Wicked Games @ The Hills Esthetic Center
  • Summer Open House: Free Workshops All Day @ Lillstreet Art Center
  • Suspended @ LVL3

    • Sunday:

  • MUSIC AND ART MEET CULTURE FEST: Chicago's Largest Indoor Music and Art Festival @ Congress Theater
  • Janine Biunno: HOW THINGS STAND @ ACRE Projects
  • A Conversation with Christy Matson @ Alderman Exhibitions

    • Wednesday

  • Color Films @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri May 11 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing @ Public Works
  • Medley: A Collage Exhibit @ Chicago Urban Art Society
  • The Homoccult Show Closing Reception @ S+S Projects
  • Involuntary. Loss(y). Privacy. @ BLANC Gallery
  • Memory Address @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • Stacia Yeapanis: Over and Over Again @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • Carmen McLeod @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
  • Open Studios @ Lacuna Artists Lofts Studios
  • Natural Networks @ Morpho Gallery
  • Manual Labor @ The Post Family
  • Bradley Biancardi and Zoe Nelson: Dear Resonance and the Memory Hole @ Roots & Culture
  • Carly Silverman & Vera Klement @ Zolla/Lieberman

    • Saturday:

  • Olivia Valentine: 1:1@ Happy Collaborationists
  • David Leggett & Kristina Paabus @ Hinge Gallery
  • Bridgeport Day
  • MCA Screen: Cauleen Smith: A Star Is a Seed / Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band performance
  • Explore Fulton Market
  • New Sounds and New Sculpture from Coppice and Maria Jönsonn @ High Concept Laboratories
  • Ellen Nielsen: ULTRAVIOLETS @ Plaines Projects
  • Scott Reeder & Henning Strassburger @ Kavi Gupta
  • Ground Up: The Infrastructure of Place (closing reception) @ The Bike Room

    • Sunday:

  • EUNHYEA CHOI: CROSSING SPACE @ ACRE Projects
  • Dawoud Bey: Picturing People @ Renaissance Society
  • More Version Fest!

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri May 04 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Moon Fool (tomorrow too) @ Defibrillator Gallery
  • 30/30 @ One Strange Bird (and Lady Bird)
  • Laura Fayer: Treasure @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
  • Alison Harris: Chiaroscuro @ Chicago Photography Center
  • The Other City @ Carousel Projects
  • Chris Uphues @ Rotofugi
  • SMALL Showroom Opening
  • A Performance Show @ The Dog & Bone Space
  • Now Go See It Or Else You Won't! @ Flat Iron Arts
  • Nice-One: The CTA Experience @ Inkling
  • Black Arts @ Roxaboxen Exhibitions
  • UChicago MFA Thesis Show 1: Stageless Morphologies and A Fat Girl Crying @ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
  • Manifest BFA Fine Art Thesis Show 2 @ C33 Gallery
  • Manifest BFA Fine Art Thesis Show 1 @ A + D
  • Version festival Opening Weekend @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • Future Relics: Cast-offs @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • Natural Selection @ Black Cloud Gallery
  • Doug Fogelson: Exit Eden @ City Gallery at the Historic Water Tower
  • Dock 6 Design & Arts @ Dock 6
  • A. Laurie Palmer @ Threewalls
  • Graham Ebetsch @ Jupiter Outpost
  • Kinzie First Fridays
  • Occupy837 @ MANIFEST

    • Saturday:

  • Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap: Cosmic Debris @ Comfort Station
  • Game Night @ Sullivan Galleries
  • Mike Schreiber: True Hip Hop @ The Silver Room
  • GREYSCALE @ KUNZ VIS Projects
  • Is It What? (Closing Reception) @ Hinge Gallery
  • Symposium: Of Hospitality @ Logan Center for the Arts
  • Version Festival: Act of God @ The Orphanage (First Lutheran Church of the Trinity)

    • Sunday:

  • Positive Reinforcement @ Peanut Gallery
  • Sunday Soup Chicago @ Roots & Culture
  • COOKBOOK SHUFFLE A party to celebrate the release of KADABRA VOL II @ ACRE Projects
  • Did You See Heaven: SPECTRA @ PEREGRINEPROGRAM
  • GRAVEYARD @ The Terraformer
  • Melina Ausikaitis @ Julius Caesar

    • Monday:

  • Act I: Absence Makes It Real @ SUGS

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Apr 27 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • [Per-Sep-Shuhn] @ Chicago Art Department
  • SAIC MFA Thesis Exhibitions @ Sullivan Galleries
  • Justificaciòn a priori: Science and Aesthetics in the Work of Gustavo Dìaz @ The Mission
  • I CAN DO THAT (closing reception) @ Variable Space
  • Erik Peterson: The Middle @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations) @ Gallery 400
  • Chris Thiel: The Imaginary Realm @ Gallery Swarm
  • Tom Torluemke and Jeriah Hildwine @ Linda Warren Projects
  • Nicholas Sistler TROUBLE @ Firecat Projects

    • Saturday:

  • Liliana Porter: The Task @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
  • Livid Feel (A program of three video works) @ 65GRAND
  • Contemporary Art and Documentary Practices (roundtable) @ The Renaissance Society
  • Nicholas Cueva: Dolium Volvitur: Art Movements throughout history @ Autumn Space Galley
  • We're All In It Together Now @ Believe Inn
  • Ear Eater #14: Extravagant Simplicity @ Cathouse
  • It ain't over.... @ slow
  • Christy Matson: The Sun Doesn't Show through the Mist until Noon @ Alderman Exhibitions
  • R & C Annual Spring Benefit Bash @ Roots & Culture
  • Scott Horsley: Natural History @ Bert Green Fine Art

    • Sunday:

  • James Kubie artist talk @ Julius Caesar (2pm)
  • Todd King & Nicholas Wylie: Puer Aeternus @ ACRE Projects
  • Conversation with the Artist: David Leggett @ Hyde Park Art Center

    • Tuesday:

  • Amplifying Voices (Theaster Gates artist talk) @ Smart Museum

    • Thursday:

  • Hecho En Logan Square @ I am Logan Square
  • Matthew Avignone: Stranger Than Family @ David Weinberg Photography
  • The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour @ Hyde Park Art Center

    • ...more at Sixty Inches from Center!

    — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Apr 20 2012

    Art Around Town

    Hi ya'll. I just wanted to let you know that I wasn't able to do the Art Around Town column this morning because I've come down with some terrible virus and I can't think or stand or do much of anything right now. Damn Chicago weather. I will post it ASAP. In the meantime, check out The Visualist, and have a better weekend than I will!

    — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Apr 13 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • 3 Solos: Lamantia, Cox & Eberhardt @ Packer-Schopf Gallery
  • Paradigm Shift: The Art of the Chicago Spring @ Fine Art Building
  • ESCAPE GROUP: Performances and Responses @ threewalls
  • SADIE HAWKINS SEMIFORMAL DANCE W/ DJ Jean Short @ Roxaboxen Exhibitions
  • Hebru Brantley: Trapped in What I Made Believe @ kasia kay art projects
  • With Other People With Other Sons @ Heaven Gallery
  • I can do that @ Variable Space
  • Amanda Greive: The Middle @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • It's Getting Hot in Here @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • Scott Nadeau: Insignificant Matter @ Defibrillator
  • Jacqueline Hendrickson: WIWWIW @ DOVA Temporary
  • Embody @ Black Cloud Gallery
  • Stories of Man @ Judy A Saslow Gallery
  • I Believe in Nothing, Everything is Sacred @ Judy A Saslow Gallery
  • UK/Chicago Performance @ British Consul General's Residence
  • I Accidentally Turned Off the Sun: 2012 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 4 @ Gallery 400
  • Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance @ The Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • In Decay - Stitching America's Ruins @ Chicago Cultural Center

    • Saturday:

  • VERSION FESTIVAL 12 Benefit Exhibition: Objet Petit Ahh... @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • Zombie Prom: Benefit for The Arts of Life @ Empty Bottle
  • High Concept Labs Spring Open House
  • Paul Erschen: Newport Room @ The Hills
  • In The Spirit of Walser @ Donald Young Gallery
  • FLAT 12 @ Floor Length and Tux
  • Life Force @ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
  • Temporal Figuration @ LVL3
  • Artist Talk: Nina Barnett, Chaz Evans, Kasia Houlihan, Mark Kent, and Brendan Meara @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room

    • Sunday:

  • Alison Ruttan: Natural Disaster @ ADDS DONNA
  • Adam Blumberg: Boys' Life @ ACRE Projects
  • limes and bricks suck pink you tasteless hunk or just limes and brick suck pink or tasteless hunk @ Terrain Exhibitions
  • Martin Soto: Bomba Negra Series: Venus and Jupiter @ Afri-Caribe Cultural Center
  • Tim Nickodemus Reading Discussion @ Alderman Exhibitions

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Apr 06 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Russell Tyler @ ebersmoore
  • The Homocult Show (all weekend) @ S&S Project
  • Hammes/Payne @ NEW CAPITAL
  • Eric Wenzel: FRESH FAT @ 65GRAND
  • James Jankowiak: The Profane Illumination @ Johalla Projects
  • On Beyond Zebra: 2012 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 3 @ Gallery 400
  • Brad Temkin, Barbara Cooper, Linda Hoffhines: Art and the Urban Garden @ Lillstreet Art Center
  • Time To Make The Donuts: The Gigposters of Ryan Duggan @ saki
  • Jennifer Cronin, Matt Maniscalco, and Ian Mitchell Wallace: Embody @ Black Cloud Gallery
  • EFFORT @ DfbrL8r
  • Now You See It, Now You Don't @ Flat Iron

    • Saturday:

  • Escape Group: Lectures and Bloody Mary Bar @ threewalls
  • Ground Up, the Infrastructure of Place @ The Bike Room
  • hArts for Art 3 @ LVL3
  • Joseph G. Cruz: not a fact, still extremely real @ Comfort Station
  • Katherine Desjardins: A Provisional Proposition @ kasia kay art projects gallery
  • Catherine Forster: They call me theirs @ Notebaert Nature Museum Chicago
  • Artist Talk: Jeremy Bolen, Paul Cowan, Marianna Milhorat, and Neal Vandenbergh @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
  • Black, White, Gold @ Hosted by Casualiving

    • Sunday:

  • James Kubie: Blood and Gold @ Julius Caesar
  • Caleb Cole: Other People's Clothes @ ACRE Projects
  • CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) @ The Hideout
  • Comic Art Battle @ The Hideout

    • Monday:

  • Galerie F Fundraiser @ Cole's Bar

    • Wednesday:

  • Film Screening: Before Ai Weiwei and Enemies of the People @ The Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • threewallsSALON: Unofficial Publics
  • Yvonne Rainer lecture @ AIC

    • Thursday:

  • Survival Techniques @ The Museum of Contemporary Photography

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Mar 30 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Rachel Smith @ Chicago The Beautiful
  • For the Wild Rabbit @ Murdertown Gallery
  • Torch Song: 2012 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 2 @ Gallery 400
  • Splatter Platter: 2012 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 2 @ Gallery 400
  • Catherine Sullivan & Co.: Inaugurals @ Logan Center Gallery
  • Urban Gateway's All For Art Gala @ Venue One

    • Saturday:

  • Shane Ward: Lincoln never ate anything yellow, AKA: Tendencies will define you. @ Happy Collaborationists
  • Escape Into the Briar Patch @ slow
  • John Cage, Toko Shinoda, Yozo Hamaguchi @ Floating World Gallery
  • Artist Talk: Mark Aguhar, Sebastian Aguirre, Jon Chambers, and Andrew Mausert-Mooney @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
  • Christian Reiben (closing reception) @ The Bike Room
  • Carrie Schneider: Burning House @ moniquemeloche
  • Lady Rollins: Losing the Gloves (performance) @ Carrie Secrist
  • Mladenoff, DeAno, and Iemmolo @ Packer Schopf

    • Sunday:

  • David Sprecher: FOOL @ Peanut Gallery
  • Ben Pegram + Chris Semel: Twenty-Six @ ACRE Projects
  • Lip Sync Show @ DEFIBRILLATOR
  • David Salkin: Room for Views @ PEREGRINEPROGRAM
  • Galerie F Kickstarter Launch
  • Closing reception dead drunk shark @ The Hills
  • Talk + Closing: Dana DeGiulio + Audrey Adams @ Julius Caesar (2pm)

    • Monday:

  • Artist Residency Panel Discussion @ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Michigan Avenue Ballroom

    • Thursday:

  • Effort @ DEFIBRILLATOR
  • ASCII 3 @ California Clipper (back room)
  • Michael S. Lewis @ Mark Shale Project Space
  • Print me a Square @ I am Logan Square


    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Mar 23 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Andy Hall & Kaylee Wyant: Modern Model @ Roots & Culture
  • Rebecca Shore: All in One @ Corbett vs Dempsey
  • Evil Is Interesting @ Antena Gallery
  • Jesus Mejia: The Fidelity of Instruments @ The Plaines Project
  • Andrew Martin & Sam Harvey: Formal Engagement @ Lillstreet Art Center
  • 2012 Creative Chicago Expo (today and tomorrow) @ Cultural Center
  • .you.i.you.see. @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • Flicks 2 Print: A Graffiti Writer Print Exhibition @ B1E Gallery
  • Villain Affair @ The Cooler
  • Cornelia Arts Building March Open House
  • Roger Moy: Love, Why I flunked Out of Trade School @ Gallery Swarm
  • DESTINEEZ CHILD + GURL DON'T BE DUMB (screening) @ threewalls
  • Black Thorns in the Black Box (screening) @ The Nightingale
  • BRAIN FRAME 5

    • Saturday:

  • The Physical Impossibility of a Hangover in the Mind of Someone Drinking @ TheHills Esthetic Center
  • Tim Nickodemus: Megatheria @ Alderman Exhibitions
  • Trial Myriad @ North Branch Projects
  • Zachary Buchner @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
  • Women of a Certain Age @ South Side Community Arts Center
  • Zak Sally, John Porcellino & Dale Flattum: Physical Evidence @ RATIONAL PARK
  • Hamza J. Salim: Suicide Bombers @ Casa Aztlan
  • Rumble Arts Crafts Fair

    • Sunday:

  • Art-Zine/Chicago: Spring Fling @ Peanut Gallery
  • Matt Austin & EJ Hill: Slow Dance @ ACRE Projects
  • AB(e)DUCTED! The Honest Abe Art Show @ Cole's
  • Andrea Jablonski and Erin Page @ Star Coffee
  • Of Dolls and Murder (screening) @ Glessner House Museum

    • Wednesday

  • Brent Green: Musical Perforamnce, Lecture and Screening @ The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium

    • Thursday:

  • Patrick Lichty: Ex Nihilo / Improbable Objects @ What It Is
  • Mickalene Thomas @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
  • THAW @ DANK Haus

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Mar 16 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Sirianni/Lane @ NEW CAPITAL
  • Look at Me: 2012 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 1 @ Gallery 400
  • Power Lines @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • Gwynne Johnson: This Doubtful Paradise @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • Megan Born: Dirt @ The Graham Foundation
  • Heroes & Icons @ Yollocalli Arts Reach
  • Black Thorns in the White Cube / Elijah Burgher @ Western Exhibitions
  • IN PARALLEL @ Jennifer Norback Fine Art; INC
  • The Art of the Wall @ Elephant Room
  • Ruben Aguirre: Reveries of Light @ The Silver Room
  • About Face @ Zhou B. Art Center
  • Jason Robert Bell: The One Man Army Corpse & Michael Nudelman: Lookin' Out My Back Door @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
  • What's my GPA Again? @ SAIC Sullivan Galleries
  • Dystopia: Spiritual Warfare in a Mechanized World @ Las Manos Gallery
  • Maria Tomasula: Singularities & Teodor Dumitrescu: Fire Season @ Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
  • Portfolio @ Elmhurst Art Museum
  • SPRINGEN @ 33 Contemporary Gallery

    • Saturday:

  • Artist Talk: Mary Helena Clark, Tiffany Funk, Anthony Koerner, Nicholas Rummler, and Gwendolyn Zabicki @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
  • Mark Jackson: Darkness and Light @ Iceberg Projects
  • Light Show @ Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center
  • Sean Ward @ Autumn Space Gallery
  • SAIC Spring BFA Exhibition
  • PLAY! -- MORE OR LESS @ Believe Inn
  • Gong Lab: Suite for Dreamers @ High Concept Laboratories
  • Mixed Movement Chicago @ Rumble Arts Center
  • Suicide Bombers @ Casa Aztlan

    • Sunday:

  • Holly Holmes: Transcription @ Terrain Exhibitions
  • Yto Barrada: Riffs @ The Renaissance Society
  • Brandy Fisher: A System of Relations @ ACRE Projects
  • ARTE NO ES FÁCIL @ Links Hall

    • Tuesday:

  • Sabina Ott: to perceive the invisible in you @ SXU Gallery

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Mar 09 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Chicago Zine Fest (today and tomorrow)
  • Dissolution @ Eel Space
  • Sans @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • John Opera: Form Fit @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
  • Alan and Michael Fleming @ threewalls
  • Andrew Rauhauser: STRATA @ FM* Gallery
  • VOCES DE MUJERES III-Celebrating International Women's Day @ Carlos & Dominguez Fine Arts Gallery
  • Octagon Open House
  • Bike Winter Fashion Show @ Gala Gallery
  • Jessica Bardsley: LIGHTWATER @ The Nightengale

    • Saturday:

  • Nostalgia: Artist Discussion & Group Show @ Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space
  • R&D @ Manifold
  • Christian Rieben: The Failure of Rational Thought @ The Bike Room
  • Piranha Club #2: The Last Last Meal @ Roots & Culture
  • Axis Mundi: Artist Talk with Jason Brammer @ Firecat Projects
  • BASK: Scenic Riot @ OhNo!Doom

    • Sunday:

  • Joseph Rynkiewicz: A Line Describing Eternity @ ACRE Projects
  • I Surrender @ Devening Projects + Editions

    • Monday:

  • Marilyn Minter Visiting Artists Program Lecture @ The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
  • Andreas Fisher Lecture @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room

    • Tuesday:

  • Look at Me UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition @ Gallery 400

    • Wednesday:

  • Life on the Land: re-imagining public space SALON @ threewalls

    • Thursday:

  • Jen Heaslip: New Paintings @ Bert Green Fine Art

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Mar 02 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • WOW House @ Johalla Projects
  • Light Show @ Roots & Culture
  • Kinzie First Friday @ The Arts of Life
  • Matthew Hoffman: I Made This For You @ Public Works
  • botanic/organic // National Juried Exhibit @ Union Street Gallery
  • Linoleum block prints by Kevin O'Rourke @ Inkling
  • Rules & Regulations @ Jupiter Outpost
  • Cory Sever: Top Of The Most @ One Strange Bird (and Lady Bird)
  • Prima Sakuntabhai @ Cobalt Studio
  • DECKED @ Black Cloud Gallery
  • Rim Lee: Retrospective @ Kasia Kay
  • Carl Baratta: Sweet Water @ Lloyd Dobler
  • various small abstractions @ D Gallery
  • Alleys & Ruins @ Schneider Gallery
  • Alan Cohen: Revisited Exposures @ Document
  • Every now and then I fall apart @ The Plaines Project
  • TUNDRA: body in performance @ S&S Project
  • Benjamin Bellas and Oli Watt: That thing in that old Groucho Marx movie... @ Kirk's Apartment
  • Nazafarin Lofti @ Tony Wight Gallery
  • Footprints in Vertical Skies @ Jackson Junge Gallery
  • Recent Drawings by Mariana Sissia @ The Mission Projects
  • Trime Bumiller @ Zg Gallery

    • Saturday:

  • MFA Open Studios @ Northwestern University
  • Blood: New Work by Chris Hefner & Andy Hefner @ saki
  • Logan Square Spring Fling Fashion Show @ Hairitics Dye for Your Beliefs
  • WHPK 88.5fm presents Pictures and Sounds @ UofC Film Studies Center
  • Veronica Bruce, Brian McNearney, and Morgan Sims: Reality Slips @ Robert Bills Contemporary
  • Domain and Range @ Jenny's Common
  • They Wore Faces of Red Clay @ SideCar
  • Is it What? @ Hinge Gallery
  • Stuck Up: A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers @ Maxwell Colette Gallery
  • Christian Rieben @ The Bike Room
  • 3 Diverse Artists // 1 Awesome Show @ Next Door
  • PLAY! @ Believe Inn

    • Sunday:

  • Force Majeure @ DEFIBRILLATOR and NEW CAPITAL
  • I'M WATCHING THE SUN COME UP NOW @ ACRE Projects
  • Dana DeGiulio @ Julius Caesar

    • Tuesday

  • PechaKucha Night Chicago presents Volume 21 @ Martyrs'
  • Craig Dykers lecture @ AIC's Rubloff Auditorium

    • Thursday:

  • Chicago Nocturne @ I Am Logan Square

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (1)

    Art Around Town Fri Feb 24 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • The Whitney Houston Biennial @ Murdertown
  • Ox-Bow Winter Benefit
  • Re-opening Celebration @ Alderman Exhibitions
  • PLAY! @ Believe Inn
  • 15th Annual Bike Winter Art Show @ Gala Gallery
  • Exploring Axis Mundi: The Still Point At The Center of The Turning Universe @ Firecat Projects
  • IPaintMyMind T-Shirt & Art Print Release Party @ Simone's
  • Timeless @ Judy A Saslow Gallery
  • Iemmolo / DeAno/ Mladenoff @ Packer Schopf Gallery
  • Chicago The Beautiful @ 914

    • Saturday:

  • NEXT/NOW (tonight and tomorrow) @ Defribrillator
  • I'm OK if You're OK @ threewalls
  • Florida Oasis Part 4 : FINAL INSTALLMENT @ Comfort Station
  • Robin Kang: Cry, or Don't @ The Milk Factory
  • Three Vertices @ LVL3
  • Auntie Em's Mobile Home @ slow
  • Bright Lights, Big City: The Art of Modernism in Japanese Woodblock Prints @ Floating World Gallery
  • The Hashbrown Chili Cookoff @ Spudnik Press
  • This House is Not a Home @ SHoP
  • Kindred Visions @ Blanc Gallery
  • Photography and Art Meet Culture @ Al Teatro Ristorante

    • Sunday:

  • Kate Bowen: Almost Always Getting it Right @ ACRE Projects
  • More or Less @ RoxaBoxen Exhibitions
  • Performance by David Grubbs and Susan Howe: Frolic Architecture David Grubbs and Susan Howe @ The Renaissance Society
  • IN THE SPIRIT OF WALSER Artist Reception @ Donald Young Gallery

    • Wednesday:

  • Speechless @ The Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • The World Finder, an Epic Tragedy in Four Acts @ Gallery 400

    • Thursday:

  • Judith Hladik-Voss @ Chicago Public LibraryLincoln/Belmont branch

    • That's not enough for you?!? Okay, there's more...

    — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Feb 17 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Living By Example @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center
  • The Piranha Club @ Roots & Culture
  • Anointed: Ritual Vessels by Julia Galloway, Seth Green, and Andrew Gilliatt @ Lillstreet Art Center
  • HITS CLOSE TO HOME @ CAC
  • Closing Reception // Abigail Csanda & Allison Spicer: Inferences @ Next Door Chicago
  • 9th MEASURE @ Chicago Artist's Coalition
  • arow Collective Presents The Drop Out Kids @ Clothes Optional Vintage
  • #Crapitalism Listening Party // Panel Discussion @ Rumble Arts
  • A Collection of Cuban Imagery @ Gallery Swarm
  • Your Game Bytes @ RGB Lounge
  • New Work by Ari Neiditz with music from Turpentine and Animal City @ The Yellow Book

    • Saturday:

  • Florida Oasis Pt. 3 @ Logan Square Comfort Station
  • Magalie Guérin: The Warmest Guest @ Autumn Space Gallery
  • 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan Town Hall Meeting @ DuSable Museum
  • Arte No es Fácil @ Links Hall
  • the big stink moves like a moth towards the light @ Hungryman Gallery
  • Expressions of LOVE @ Japanese Culture Center

    • Sunday:

  • Michelle Anne Harris: Accidents of Gravity @ ACRE Projects
  • Honk If You Love Painting @ Terrain Exhibitions
  • Curatorial Talk with Bisi Silva @ Doukan 7002

    • Wednesday:

  • Art21 Season 6 Advance Screening @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Feb 10 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Artist Talk: AA Bronson @ University of Chicago
  • Short Court: Tropical Aesthletics @ Antena
  • APOCALYPSE IN THE PLEASURE GARDENS performance by MIKEY McPARLANE @ New Capital
  • Aron Gent, Nick Ostoff, Sophia Rauch: Isaz: Ice is bark of rivers @ The Hills Esthetic Center
  • Heidi Norton: Reasons to Cut Into the Earth @ Johalla Projects
  • ReBirth @ DEFIBRILLATOR
  • URBAN POP @ Yollocalli
  • 1 Year Anniversary of Escapism @ Maya Essence
  • Jeremy Tinder @ Rotofugi
  • Moneyworth Art Opening and Trunk Show @ kokorokoko
  • Tyrue "Slang" Jones: TRUE LOVE @ GALA Gallery
  • Closing Reception for Scented Illusions: Avon and Art @ S&S Project Gallery

    • Saturday:

  • Min Song: Small-Scale Lifestyles 2 @ Happy Collaborationists
  • Meet Martin Creed @ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  • Monster Movie Seminar @ Hinge Gallery
  • Cathy Wilkes: I Give You All My Money Gallery Tour @ The Renaissance Society
  • Anthony Marcos Rea: The Ones I Remember @ Cobalt Studio
  • CAKE Benefit @ Mortville
  • Super Button Mashers, A Gamer Tribute @ OhNo!ARCADE

    • Sunday:

  • Fatima Haider & Lourdes Correa-Carlo @ Julius Caesar
  • James Green: Beta Eyes @ ACRE Projects
  • Magalie Guérin: The Warmest Guest @ Autumn Space Gallery
  • Lecture by Marsha Bentley Hale: Mannequin Mystique @ The Renaissance Society
  • Someone Else's Dream @ Hyde Park Art Center
  • Meet the Artist: Keelan McMorrow @ The Bluebird

    • Wednesday:

  • Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art @ Smart Museum of Art

    • Thursday:

  • Many Years After, On a Sunny Afternoon @ Art Lounge, Student Center West, UIC
  • Marina Abramovic: A Lecture on Performance and Its Future @ First United Methodist Church at The Chicago Temple
  • Closing Party for The Chicago Project @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Feb 03 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • Issuing Forth @ Robert Bills Contemporary
  • Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Negative Joy @ Corbett vs. Dempsey
  • Watie White @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • Antonia Gurkovska: Index @ Kavi Gupta
  • SKY LINES @ Charnel House
  • Brian Beard: A Series of Poor Decisions @ Inkling
  • Ian Ferguson: Gold Huffing @ One Strange Bird (and Lady Bird)
  • Philip Dembinski: Wavelength @ Jupiter Outpost
  • Christina A Long: Antipathies @ The Silver Room
  • Hebru Brantley: BAD ACTORS @ Grand Bizzare Gallery
  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE: In the Spirit of Walser @ Donald Young Gallery

    • Saturday:

  • 2nd Floor Rear Festival
  • Florida Oasis @ Logan Square Comfort Station
  • Hovsepian / Marshall: On The Wall @ moniquemeloche
  • Jon Waites: Radical, Work @ PEREGRINEPROGRAM
  • Inaugural Exhibition @ Bert Green Fine Art
  • Scott Wolniak @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
  • Finding Funding for Creative Projects (workshop) @ Chicago Artists Coalition
  • (NO) Vacancy @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
  • Home Knowledge Spectacular @ North Branch Projects
  • Young Sun Han: sooner later @ Las Manos Gallery
  • Marilyn Zimmerman @ ARC Gallery

    • Sunday:

  • Form Over Function @ Peanut Gallery
  • Rebecca Beachy: Ground @ Roxaboxen Exhibitions
  • Alice Feldt: I'd Languish in Your Dust @ ACRE Projects
  • Cupola Bobber: The Field, The Mantel @ ADDS DONNA
  • Lecture by Dennis King Keenan: Irigaray and the Sacrifice of Sacrifice @ The Renaissance Society
  • Dayo Laoye: Evolution @ South Shore Cultural Center

    • Tuesday:

  • BIG THINGS Pop-Up Market @ Public Works

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Jan 27 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • David Leggett & Melissa Steckbauer @ Western Exhibitions
  • iLLUMINATE @ Water Street Studios
  • Not Cool or Stoic @ slow
  • Society of the Spectacular @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • André Butzer @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
  • Closing Reception: DRESSING THE LOOM @ Plaines Project
  • Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection @ Cultural Center
  • The MeMo Organization Cabinet @ Cultural Center
  • The GOLDEN somnabulist & CLOSING reception for OFF the GOLDEN Map @ GALLERY200
  • Crossroads: A One Day Documentary Based On Data @ RGB Lounge
  • Justin Amrhein: Schematized @ Firecat Projects
  • JONATHAN DANKENBRING & JASON ROBERT BELL @ Thomas Robertello
  • Pulled, Pressed & Printed, Chicago @ Expo 72

    • Saturday:

  • Multimedia Print Project, Lightness & Darkness Release Party @ Happy Dog
  • B.A.D. (Molar Productions) OPENING RECEPTION @ Beverly Arts Center
  • Closing Reception // I'M HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS @ Happy Collaborationists
  • SHUTTER @ Logan/Avondale Arts Center
  • Holding onto Something Slippery @ LVL3
  • Maria Vergara: LIVING LARGE @ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
  • ONO, ANDRÉ FOISY, SUN SPLITTER, RABID RABBIT @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

    • Sunday:

  • ANNA CAMPBELL: THE SLOW CLUB @ ACRE
  • Joshua Abelow + Alexander Valentine @ Devening Projects

    • Monday:

  • Form Fit Lecture Series: Kelly Kaczynski @ Gallery 400 Lecture Room

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Jan 20 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • STUCK UP: A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers @ Maxwell Colette Gallery
  • REVOLUTION 2012 @ Jackson Junge Gallery
  • 2012 National Wet Paint Exhibition | Make Sound Exhibition and Performance @ Zhou B. Art Center
  • Night of Insight : Re-Frame: Communing @ Rumble Arts
  • LOSSY @ Roots and Culture
  • 20 in Their Twenties @ Woman Made
  • Dressing the Loom @ The Plaines Project
  • Voices: Ryan Griffis, Lize Mogel, and Sarah Ross @ Gallery 400
  • Unfolding Space: an architecture of moments @ Floating World Gallery
  • Quarterly Site #9: Support @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • ASCENT @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
  • Global Cities, Model Worlds + The World Finder @ Gallery 400
  • Atomic Comics: Masters of the Humorverse @ Mayne Stage

    • Saturday

  • The 4th Annual Winter Block Party for Chicago's Hip-Hop Arts @ Metro
  • unfurl @ dan devening projects
  • Robert Overby @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
  • Anagram City @ Golden Gallery

    • Sunday:

  • NOT ALL DAYS ARE THE SAME; A CONTEMPLATION OF TRANSITS @ Roxaboxen
  • Jefferson Godard @ Terrain
  • Cathy Wilkes: I Give You All My Money @ The Renaissance Society

    • Wednesday:

  • Paul D'Amato @ DePaul Art Museum

    • Thursday:

  • Kelly K. Jones: Our No Place @ Gallery X @ School of the Art Institute of Chicago


    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Art Around Town Fri Jan 06 2012

    Art Around Town

    Tonight:

  • First Fridays @ Kinzie Corridor
  • OUT ON A LIMB (performance) @ Casualiving
  • FAR OUT @ Judy A Saslow Gallery
  • Moyra Davy @ Donald Young Gallery
  • Moves Thinks Repeats Pauses @ Tony Wight Gallery
  • Holiday Hangover Opening With Architecture for Humanity @ Black Cloud Gallery
  • Paul Erschen: West Plaza @ Document
  • First Fridays @ Inkling
  • NEU! @ ebersmoore
  • MOVES THINKS REPEATS PAUSES @ Tony Wight
  • Martina Nehrling: In Defense of Wondering @ Zg Gallery

    • Saturday:

  • Chiara No: WILD THINGS, I THINK I LOVE YOU @ Johalla Projects
  • Artist's Talk: Steven Frost and David Hartwell, moderated by Alison Cuddy @ Robert Bills Contemporary

    • Sunday:

  • WIPE OUT @ Peanut Gallery
  • ACCUMULATIONS: new works by ACRE staff @ ACRE

    • Thursday:

  • Karen Reimer Artist Talk w/ Shannon Stratton @ moniquemeloche

    • — Kelly Reaves / Comments (0)

    Feature Wed May 02 2012

    Inside Anime Central '12

    By Tim Rolph

    Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Anime Central (ACen), the Midwest's largest anime convention, does not so much arrive as it does engulf. Tim Rolph takes you inside with 24,000+ niche hobby fans of all ages, heights, weights, costumes, handicaps and weapons.
    Read this feature »

    Steve at the Movies Fri May 18 2012

    The Dictator, Bernie, Mansome, Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog & First Position

    By Steve Prokopy

    Read this column »

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    Wed May 23 2012
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    Fri May 25 2012
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    Fri May 25 2012
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    Sat May 26 2012
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