The National Public Housing Museum presents “The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation”
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The Steve McQueen who didn’t make Bullitt
The Art Institute opens “Steve McQueen,” showing work by the British video artist
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Sic transit gloria meat market
At Chicago Artists’ Coalition, “Locality” and “The Hall of Disappearing” are all about transformation
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Hebru Brantley visits planet America
Paintings by Hebru Brantley in “Brothers of the Robbing Hood,” at Lacuna Artist Lofts
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Allen Ruppersberg’s back pages
In “No Time Left to Start Again,” conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg presents his own, chaotic history of rock.
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Laura Letinsky withdraws to a further remove
Chicago photographer Laura Letinsky shows prints of collaged images in “Ill Form and Void Full”
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Children under glass: Caleb Weintraub’s insular, precarious worlds
Don’t take the kids to Caleb Weintraub’s “Snowglobe, a Plastic Dream in a Clear and Present Danger”—they’re already in it
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Getting Into Face . . . after face after face
Club kids JoJo Baby and Sal-E play advanced dress-up in Getting Into Face
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Zeph Farmby’s eat-the-rich art
Zeph Farmby’s solo show, “Love, Lust & Desire,” opens at Elephant Room, Inc.
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Chunks of dismembered wife found in whale
Amber Hawk Swanson’s “All That Is Left of You / Everything You Are Now” at the Chicago Artists Coalition
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Seymour Rosofsky’s sinister whimsy
Seymour Rosofsky drawings exhibited at Corbett vs. Dempsey
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Synchrodogs unleashed
Ukrainian photo duo Synchrodogs at Public Works Gallery
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Landscape with really huge phalluses
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents “Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity”
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“Kink,” regular and super
Design Cloud Gallery’s “Kink” exhibits work by Harry Sudman and JoJo Baby
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Artists overwrite the self in ‘Program/Suffer/Abstain/Deprogram’
Reader contributor Bert Stabler curates “Program/Suffer/Abstain/Deprogram,”