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Fri, Jan 31, 6-9pm
Aidōs
Adds Donna: 3252 W North Av
Free
Jan 30-Feb 1, 8-9pm
Ligia Lewis Water Will (in Melody)
Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave
$10-30
Sat, Feb 1, 12-5pm
Radical Print Shop with William Estrada
PO Box Collective: 6900 N Glenwood Ave
Free
Sat, Feb 1, 1-3:30pm
Film Screening: The Peoples’ Protectors and Healing Voices
Newberry Library: 60 W Walton St
Free
Sat, Feb 1, 2-4pm
Luis A. Sahagun: Both Eagle and Serpent
Chicago Cultural Center: 78 E Washington St
Free
Sat, Feb 1, 2-4pm
Discussion with José Santiago Pérez
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave
Free
Sat, Feb 1, 3-4pm
Ronak Kapadia: Insurgent Aesthetics
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Free
Sat, Feb 1, 4-7pm
Candida Alvarez: Estoy Bien
Moniquemeloche: 451 N Paulina St
Free
Sat, Feb 1, 6-9pm
Switching Codes of Pleasure: Panel Discussion on Sex Work in Academia and Art Institutions
High Concept Labs: 2233 S Throop St
Free
Sat, Feb 1, 8-9:30pm
Performance by Hot Hags!
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St
Free
Sat, Feb 1, 8pm-12am
Li-Ming Hu: DISCOmbobulation
Co-Prosperity Sphere: 3219 S Morgan St
Free
Sun, Feb 2, 11am-2pm
Karen Dana: Off Hours
Material: 2025 W Belmont Ave
Free
Sun, Feb 2, 2-3pm
Assaf Evron: Touch Tour
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave
Free with admission
Sun, Feb 2, 2-4pm
AFRIFUTURI 02022020 BOOK + CAMO COAT COLLECTION LAUNCH
Blanc Gallery: 4445 S King Drive
$8
Sun, Feb 2, 4-7pm
The Long Goodbye
Selected Works Gallery: 1500 S Western Ave
Free
Mon, Feb 3, 6-7pm
Therese Quinn & Bill Ayers: FRESH AYERS
57th Street Books: 1301 E 57th St
Free
Tue, Feb 4, 12-1pm
Curator Tour: Routes and Territories
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave
Free
Tue, Feb 4, 5-7pm
Jun Fujita: American Visionary
Newberry Library: 60 W Walton St
Free
Tue, Feb 4, 6-7:30pm
In Progress: Move Me Soul
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave
Free
Tue, Feb 4, 6-8pm
Dragonfly Eyes
Film Row Cinema: 1104 S Wabash Ave
Free
Wed, Feb 5, 5-7pm
Tania Bruguera
Northwestern University Department of Art Theory and Practice: 1880 Campus Dr, Evanston
Free
Wed, Feb 5, 6:30pm
Video Lab with South Side Home Movie Project
Apple Store: 401 N Michigan Av
Free
Wed, Feb 5, 6-7pm
Lee Bey: Southern Exposure
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Free
Thurs, Feb 6, 9:30am-7pm
US-China Forum 2020: The Matter of Art
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: 915 E 60th St
Free
Thurs, Feb 6, 5pm
Art and Materiality: Symposium
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: 915 E 60th St
Free
Thurs, Feb 6, 6-8pm
An Evening with Vaginal Davis
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St
$5-12
Thurs, Feb 6, 6-9pm
Nikki Giovanni
The Keller Center: 1307 E 60th St
Free
Thurs, Feb 6, 7-10pm
We Tell Film Series: Body Publics
Green Line Performing Arts Center: 329 E Garfield Blvd
Free
Fri, Feb 7, 6-7pm
An Evening with Xandria Phillips & Raych Jackson
57th Street Books: 1301 E 57th St
Free
Fri, Feb 7, 6-9pm
For Memory: These Are Deities in My Eyes
Blanc Gallery: 4445 S King Dr
Free
Fri, Feb 7, 6-8pm
Alan Emerson Hicks & Angelica Campbell
Center on Halsted: 3656 N Halsted St
Free
Fri, Feb 7, 6-9pm
BIG PART small whole
ACRE Projects: 1345 W 19th St
Free
Fri, Feb 7, 6-9pm
Lucid: Closing Reception
Gallery Studio Oh!: 4839 N Damen Ave
Free
Fri, Feb 7, 6-9pm
Lukey Walden: favors
An Sylvia Exhibitions: 1154 W Lunt Ave
Free
Fri, Feb 7, 7pm
Tatsu Aoki and Myra Su: String of Echoes
Links Hall: 3111 N Western Ave
$15-20
Fri, Feb 7, 7-8:30pm
Ela Przybylo: ASEXUAL EROTICS
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St
Free
Fri, Feb 7, 7-10pm
Cyborgs: Ancient & Current
Chicago Art Department: 1926 S Halsted St
Free
Sat, Feb 8, 12-1pm
Art Speaks: New Formations
Catherine Edelman Gallery: 1637 W Chicago Ave
Free
Sat, Feb 8, 4-7pm
Mara Baker: Chameleon Blind — Uptown Public Art Installation
Gerber Building: 4620 N Broadway Av
Free
Sat, Feb 8, 3-7pm
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
Wrightwood 659: 659 W Wrightwood Ave
Free
Sat, Feb 8, 3-7pm
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
The Smart Museum: 5550 S Greenwood Ave
Free
Sat, Feb 8, 5:30-7pm
Discourse: Shawn Rowe
Lillstreet Art Center: 4401 N Ravenswood Ave
Free
Sat, Feb 8, 6-9pm
curtain call-out couture: i am afraid isn’t just the way it is / work by Kyle Bellucci Johanson
Bill’s Auto: 3217 S Archer Av
Free
Sun, Feb 9, 4-6pm
Public Workshop
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St
Free
Mon, Feb 10, 5-6:30pm
Kim TallBear: Settler Love Is Breaking My Heart
Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT): 1130 E 59th St
Free
Tue, Feb 11, 6-7:30pm
Emil Ferris
The Art Institute of Chicago: 230 S Columbus Dr
Free
Tue, Feb 11, 6-8pm
Queering the Parks
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave
Free
Tue, Feb 11, 6:30-8:30pm
Danez Smith: Homie
American Writers Museum: 180 N Michigan Ave
$10
Wed, Feb 12, 6-7pm
Avery R. Young: neckbone
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Free
Wed, Feb 12, 7-9pm
Three Films by Forugh Farrokhzad and Ebrahim Golestan
Block Museum of Art: 40 Arts Circle Drive
Free
Thurs, Feb 13, 6-7pm
The Bauhaus Revisited: A Round Table
The Art Institute of Chicago: 111 S Michigan Ave
Free
Thurs, Feb 13, 6-8pm
Latham Zearfoss: Very Fine On Both Sides: Exhibition Closing + Make Yourself Useful Friendraiser
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St
Free
Thurs, Feb 13, 6-8pm
Lori Felker: Intrusions and Interruptions
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St
$5-10
Thurs, Feb 13, 7-10pm
Cinema 53: Gina Samuels and Eve Ewing: The Homestretch
The Harper Theater: 5238 S Harper Ave
Free
Fri, Feb 14, 12-1pm
Glenn Belverio
SAIC Sullivan Galleries: 33 S State St
Free
Fri, Feb 14, 5-7pm
The Petty Biennal.2: Closing Reception
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave
Free
Fri, Feb 14, 6-7:30pm
Unlearning Art History: Anti-Racist Work in PreModern Fields
Hilton Chicago Hotel: 720 S Michigan Ave
Free
Fri, Feb 14, 7-9pm
Cotton Dreams Book Launch | Performance
Links Hall: 3111 N Western Ave
Free
Fri, Feb 14, 7-9pm
Pyaasa (Thirst) (1957)
Block Museum of Art: 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston
Free
Sat, Feb 15, 1-2pm
Focal Point Live: Lorenzo Triburgo and Che Gossett
Museum of Contemporary Photography: 600 S Michigan Ave
Free
Sun, Feb 16, 3-4pm
Joshua Myers: We Are Worth Fighting For
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Free
Sun, Feb 16, 4-7pm
Alexis Brocchi and Tracie Hayes: The landscape reels back: Earth’s surface and figments of the mind
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave
Free
Sun, Feb 16, 1:30-3pm
Praxis as Liberation with Maya Marshall, Ada Cheng, Natasha Mijares, and Marya Spont-Lemus
Tiger Strikes Astroid at Mana Contemporary: 2233 S Throop, #419
Free
Mon, Feb 17, 6-7:30pm
Sanya Kantarovsky
Logan Center for the Arts: 915 E 60th St
Free
Tues, Feb 18, 6-8pm
Conversations on Collecting: blakHaUS studios Final Report
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave
Free
Wed, Feb 19, 6-7:30pm
Exclusive: Archive Your Story with Sixty Inches From Center
Apple Store: 401 N Michigan Av
Free
Thurs, Feb 20, 11am
Paola Cabal
Cleve Carney Museum of Art: 425 Fawell Blvd
Free
Thurs, Feb 20, 6-7:30pm
Dr. Eve L. Ewing: Chicago and Afrofuturism
Harold Washington Library: 400 S State St
Free
Thurs, Feb 20, 6-8pm
Avant-Noir
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St
$5-10
Fri, Feb 21, 7:30-10:30pm
BIPOC Punk Takeover
Art Institute of Chicago: 159 E. Monroe
Free
Fri, Feb 21, 12-1pm
Public Tour and Gallery Talk with Leo Selvaggio
Museum of Contemporary Photography: 600 S Michigan Ave
Free
Fri, Feb 21, 12:30-2pm
Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton: Shapes of Native Nonfiction
UChicago Social Science: 1126 E 59th St
Free
Sat, Feb 22, 6-10pm
Something Blue
LVL3: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave
Free
Sat, Feb 22, 6-8pm
South by Southeast
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St
$5-10
Sun, Feb 23, 1-4:30pm
Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020
Free to Local Media Reps
Tue, Feb 25, 6-7:30pm
Industrial Facility
The Art Institute of Chicago: 230 S Columbus Dr
Free
Tue, Feb 25, 7pm
Poetry off the Shelf: Christian Campbell
Poetry Foundation: 61 W Superior St
Free
Thurs, Feb 27, 7-8:30pm
Re-Envisioning Masculinity: Storytelling, Workshop, and Dialogue
Women & Children First Bookstore: 5233 N Clark St
Free
Thurs, Feb 27, 5-7pm
Jean-Ulrick Désert
Northwestern University Department of Art Theory and Practice: 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston
Free
Fri, Feb 28, 6-11:30pm
Typeforce 11
Co-Prosperity Sphere: 3219 S Morgan St
Free
Sat, Feb 29, 12-4pm
Zehra Khan: Fakeries
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago: 2233 S Throop St
Free
Sat, Feb 29, 2-3pm
Duro Olowu with Madeleine Grynsztejn
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave
$8-15
