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Abstracting the Seam

5/12-9/15

Group exhibition questioning the way needle working interacts with other mediums and art forms.

Hyde Park Art Center (map)
5020 S. Cornell Ave.
Hyde Park
phone 773-324-5520

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AfriCOBRA: Prologue

5/10-7/7

AfriCOBRA: Prologue "Into the sixties a word was born . . . BLACK." The poet Haki R. Madhubuti composed this line for a poem he wrote decades ago, but when he read it aloud at the South Side Community Art Center recently, the words still reverberated. Madhubuti was the keynote speaker at the opening of "AfriCOBRA: Prologue—The 1960s and the Black Arts Movement," the first of three exhibitions on AfriCOBRA's history, aesthetic philosophy, and cultural impact that together make up "AfriCOBRA in Chicago," a series jointly organized by the SSCAC, the Logan Center for the Arts, and the DuSable Museum of African American History. The word "black" did indeed take on new political and aesthetic meanings in the 1960s, when the raised fist became a symbol of pride and African-American writers, performers, and artists began launching their own journals, publishing companies, and exhibition spaces. Madhubuti himself founded Third World Press, one of the first black-owned publishing houses in the U.S. and now the country's largest, in 1967. Continue reading >>

South Side Community Art Center (map)
3831 S. Michigan Ave.
Bronzeville
phone 773-373-1026

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Ago

4/13-6/8.

Ago Sanford Biggers's window installation Ago has a formal decorativeness that belies its provocative intentions. It combines a number of mediums (fabric, spray paint, wood, light boxes) and cultural references (quilt making, graffiti, Japanese woodblock prints, landscape painting) to put a twist on manifest destiny and America's coded—and not-so-coded—racial histories.

The starting point is a reference to a widely distributed 1863 picture of a runaway slave, Gordon, that showed his back heavily scarred by repeated whippings. Taken by the photographer William McPherson and his partner, Mr. Oliver, the image helped expose the horrors of slavery and has been credited with galvanizing the abolitionist movement. Continue reading >>

Monique Meloche Gallery (map)
2154 W. Division St.
Wicker Park/Bucktown
phone 773-252-0299

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All Myths Are True

5/17-6/22:

New drawings by Jasmine Justice, inspired by Philip K. Dick's novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Viewing by appointment. Reception Fri 5/17, 6-9 PM.

65Grand (map)
1369 W. Grand Ave.
West Town/Noble Square
phone 312-719-4325

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All the King's Horses

4/26-7/9.

Work by Robert Burnier and Chris D. Smith. Reception Fri 4/26, 5-7 PM.

Gallery 175 (map)
175 W. Jackson
Loop
phone 312-781-2500

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Alleys and Ruins

4/18-7/8.

Alleys and Ruins Photos of urban ruin by Xavier Nuez. Reception Thu 4/18, 6-9 PM.

Instituto Cervantes (map)
31 W. Ohio St.
Near North
phone 312-335-1996

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American Moments: The Legacy of Greek Immigration

Ongoing

The National Hellenic Museum celebrates its one-year anniversary with the opening of an exhibit chronicling the history of Greeks in America.

National Hellenic Museum (map)
801 W. Adams St.
Greektown
phone 312-655-1234

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The Ancient Americas

Ongoing

Artifacts from between the Arctic and the tip of South America highlighting 13,000 years of survivor skills utilized by the early Pueblo communities of the American southwest, the Incas of South America, and other cultures throughout the hemisphere.

Field Museum (map)
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr.
Museum Campus
phone 312-922-9410

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And Then

5/3-6/2:

New paintings and works on paper from Japanese artist Kaoru Arima. Reception Fri 5/3, 6-9 PM. Subsequent viewing by appointment only.

Queer Thoughts (map)
1640 W. 18th St. #3
Pilsen/Little Village

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Animal Inside Out

Through 9/2:

Explore the physiology of "more than 100 animal specimens that have been preserved through the process of Plastination." $6-$12

Museum of Science and Industry (map)
5700 S. Lake Shore Dr.
Hyde Park
phone 773-684-1414

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Animal Kingdom

Through 6/3:

An exhibit that includes screenprints of animals by Chicago artists.

City Gallery (map)
806 N. Michigan Ave.
Gold Coast/Mag Mile/Streeterville
phone 312-346-3278

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Another View of American Indian Fine Art

Through 9/1:

A continuation of the recent "Changing Views of American Indian Fine Art," which offers a "survey of regional styles and modern Native American art while tracing its evolution from ancient times to present day."

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian (map)
3001 Central St.
Evanston
phone 847-475-1030

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Art Matter

4/26-6/6.

Cosmos-inspired paintings by Adam Benjamin Fung, Carrie Gundersdorf, Matthew Girson, and Sabina Ott. Reception Fri 4/26, 6-9 PM.

Design Cloud (map)
118 N. Peoria
West Town/Noble Square
phone 312-348-5836

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Art Practice and Pedagogy

Thu., May 30, 7-9 p.m.

Discussion in conjunction with the joint release of the book Subject Matter of the Artist: Robert Goodnough, 1950-1965 and a new issue of Shifter magazine: "What We Can Knot."

Alderman Exhibitions (map)
1138 W. Randolph St.
Near West Side

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Artwalk

Second Saturday of every month, 1-3 p.m.
phone 312-733-2787

Guided tour of ARC, Intuit and Woman Made galleries. Leaves from Love’s Snack Shop, 770 N Halsted.

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