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Arts & Culture, Feature Apr 19, 2021
Time to visit @Clockluvr’s tick tock TikTok

For Clee McCracken, clocks are a lifestyle.
- By Megan Kirby
- Tags: Feature, clocks, TikTok, tick tock, Clee McCracken, @clockluvr, The Clock, Christian Marclay, Andy Warhol, Judith Butler, Hour Time Restaurant Clock, World’s Tallest Grandfather Clock

Music, Concert Preview Jan 18, 2020
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John Cale honors his late producer and mentor by helping close the Art Institute’s Warhol exhibit
- By Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Concert Preview, John Cale, Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol, Paris 1919, Heroin, Wales, and Me, Music for a New Society, M:FANS, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Art Institute of Chicago, Songs for Drella, Lou Reed, Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood, Danger Mouse, Loop 60Hz, Liam Young, drones, Recommended

Film, Movie Review Jun 5, 2018
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: Gold and copper miners tough it out in Good Luck

Ben Russell's epic portrait of the global labor force screens at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Good Luck Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, Bor Serbia, Brokopondo Suriname, Andy Warhol, gold mining, copper mining, labor issues, experimental film, movies, Recommended

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Dec 13, 2017
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With Marisol inside the MCA, Jason Hammel paints a new canvas

The Lula Cafe chef’s menu is its own form of contemporary art.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Cookbook, Alison Cates, Sikile Terre Siciliane Grecanico Dorato, Rossese di Dolceacqua, restaurant openings, restaurant reviews, contemporary American cuisine, Marisol, Jason Hammel, Sarah Rinkavage, Logan Square, Lula Cafe, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chris Ofili, Marisol, Andy Warhol, Raymond Pettibon, No Title (To Dust Cover . . . Shut), Paul Sarkisian, Night With Raping Wave, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 27, 2017
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant: One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s best films

The director's 1972 film adaptation of his own stage play screens at Doc Films this Sunday at 7 PM.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Foreign, LGBT, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Ballhaus, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Whity, Beware of a Holy Whore, Love Is Colder Than Death, Martha, The American Soldier, Doc Films, Douglas Sirk, Andy Warhol, Jean-Marie Straub

Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 22, 2017
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The MCA’s Merce Cunningham retrospective spotlights the art of collaboration

“Merce Cunninghman: Common Time” considers one of the 20th century’s most significant choreographers.
- By Matt de la Peña
- Tags: Art Review, Merce Cunningham, Merce Cunninghman: Common Time, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, dance, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Pauline Oliveros, Charles Atlas, Andy Warhol, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, John Cage, Root of an Unfocus, Paige Cunningham Caldarella, MC9, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 29, 2016
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Tseng Kwong Chi, downtown New York’s photographic ambassador

The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Art Review, Tseng Kwong Chi, Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera, Mao, Keith Haring, Chrysler Museum, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Northwestern University, Block Museum of Art, Charlotte Moorman, A Feast of Astonishments, New York City, Downtown Manhattan, AIDS, HIV, Club 57, Mudd Club, Kenny Scharf, Dan Friedman, Andy Warhol, Metropolitan Museum of Art, China, Your Program of Programs, Kestutis Nakas, East Meets West, The Expeditionary Series, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2016
Video
Zoolander returns, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Zoolander No. 2, Arabian Nights, One Thousand and One Nights, Bridgend, Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds, Hail, Caesar!, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, How to Be Single, In the Shadow of Women, Philippe Garrel, Misconception movie, Marjorie Keller, Mustang movie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Wednesday May 9, Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore, Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Andy Warhol, The Chelsea Girls, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Easter Parade, Masaki Kobayashi, Kwaidan, Gus Van Sant, My Own Private Idaho, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 6, 2016
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Twentieth-century art makes the Art Institute a 21st-century museum

"The New Contemporary" isn't really new or contemporary, but it's a coup for the AIC.
- By Ionit Behar
- Tags: Art Review, The Art Institute of Chicago, The New Contemporary, Stefan Edlis, Gael Neeson, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Prince, Richard Richter, Charles Ray, John Currin, Eric Fischl, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2015
Transgender artists control their own narrative at Glass Curtain's 'Bring Your Own Body'

The Columbia College gallery's latest exhibit combines historical documents and contemporary art in an attempt to properly contextualize trans art and artists.
- By Kate Sierzputowski
- Tags: Arts, History, LGBT, Visual Art, Bring Your Own Body, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, transgender, transgender art, Jeanne Vaccaro, Stamatina Gregory, Chris Vargas, Mark Aguhar, Kinsey Institute, Flawless Sabrina, Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus

Blogs, Bleader Sep 3, 2015
Andy Warhol and Marc Chagall show up for LUMA's tenth birthday party

The Loyola University Museum of Art celebrates its first decade by bringing back some of its greatest hits.
- By Colleen Cottet
- Tags: Arts, Piety, Visual Art, Loyola University Museum of Art, LUMA, LUMA at 10, Andy Warhol, Pamela Ambrose, Marc Chagall, Rosalee O. Isaly

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 28, 2015
The Salts shows how grandparent-friendly the local performance scene has become

A dance-music shindig from arts collective the Inconvenience provides some good old-fashioned multidisciplinary mayhem.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, The Salts, Collaboraction, the Inconvenience, Erin Kilmurray, Andy Warhol, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, punk rock, dance

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2015
Video
The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Eyes of a Thief, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago Internatonal Movies & Music Festival, Canal Zone, Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas, Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, The Longest Ride, Nicholas Sparks, George Tillman Jr., Soul Food, True Story, Jonah Hill, James Franco, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Stephen Hopkins, The Ghost and the Darkness, Alaka Wali, Frank Tashlin, The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Mary Harron, The Notorious Bettie Pag, Orson Welles, The Trial, Nick Kroll, Adult Beginners, Roger Beebe, Andy Warhol, Dan Savage, Hump! Film Festival, Poetry on Public Television: The 1960s, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Sound of Silent Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 3, 2014
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John Malkovich poses in Sandro Miller's re-creations of iconic photographs

In "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich," Miller pictures his favorite subject in some of his all-time favorite shots.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Art Review, Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Sandro Miller, The Libertine, Andy Warhol, Annie Liebovitz, Richard Avedon's Ronald Fisher, Beekeeper, Davis, California, May 9, Diane Arbus, Expo Chicago, John Malkovich, photography, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 4, 2014

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Peter Max isn't a fad, he's a great artist

In defense of the acid-age designer and painter.

By Tal Rosenberg

Tags: Art Review, Peter Max: A Retrospective (1960-2014), Peter Max, Road Show Company at Northbrook Court, Northbrook Court, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, John Lennon, Schoolhouse Rock, Yellow Submarine, pop art, Westchester Magazine, the Beatles, Heinz Edelmann, Heinz Edelmann: The German Peter Max, Life Magazine, Statue of Liberty, Disney, Taylor Swift, Trapper Keepers, Chicago Jewish News, Yaacov Agam, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Robert Henry Adams, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2014

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Out of the closet, out of the shadows, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

By J.R. Jones

Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Philippe Garrel, Andy Warhol, Jealousy Philippe Garrel, Gene Siskel Film Center, Noir City: Chicago 6, Music Box Chicago, Film Noir Foundation, Laughter Fredric March, Laughter Nancy Carroll, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies From the U.S., Ira Sachs, Love Is Strange, Alfred Molina, John Lithgow, Bound by Flesh, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Frank movie, Michael Fassbender, A Letter to Momo, Hayao Miyazaki, Masculinity/Femininity, Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, Davis Theater Chicago, The November Man, Pierce Brosnan, To Be Takei, Star Trek, George Takei, Cinda Firestone, Attica movie, Logan Center for the Arts, Bob Fosse, Cabaret movie, Michael Roemer, Nothing But a Man, University of Chicago Doc Films, George Miller, The Road Warrior, Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, McHenry Outdoor Theater, Terror in the Aisles, Drive-In Massacre, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review May 14, 2014

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The where and why of the Hairy Who

A new documentary revisits the art and times of the Chicago imagists.

By J.R. Jones

Tags: Movie Review, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, Leslie Buchbinder, Museum of Contemporary Art, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chicago imagists, Peter Doig, John Corbett, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Hyde Park Art Center, Nonplussed Some, the False Image, Marriage Chicago Style, Chicago school, Hairy Who, Karl Wirsum, Maxweel Street Market, Jim Nutt, Andy Warhol, Madison Avenue, Philip Hanson, Ray Yoshida, School of the Art Institute, Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Tom Palazzolo, Chris Ware, City That Works, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Walter Hopp, Phyllis Kind, Chicago arts collectives, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2014

Block Cinema wraps up film series commemorating 30s glamor and the popular front

Noting upcoming screenings of City Streets (1931) and Body and Soul (1947) at Northwestern University

By Ben Sachs

Tags: Film, Visual Art, History, Block Cinema, Northwestern University, City Streets, Rouben Mamoulian, Sylvia Sidney, Edward Steicher, Andy Warhol, Body and Soul, John Garfield, Abraham Polonsky, J. Hoberman, James Wong Howe, Radical Art in the Red Decade, popular front, An Army of Phantoms, Enterprise Productions, Hollywood blacklist, fashion photography

Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2013

Delilah's pays tribute to Lou Reed with a short series of music docs

Noting three upcoming screenings at the Lincoln Park punk bar

By Ben Sachs

Tags: Do This, RIP, Film, Music, Lou Reed, Delilah's, Get Crazy, A Night With Lou Reed, Songs for Drella, Ed Lachman, Andy Warhol

Blogs, Bleader Nov 3, 2013

Reader's Agenda Sun 11/3: Tokens & Tankards, Skelebration, and "Warhol and Marisol"

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, November 3

By Jillian Sandler

Tags: Do This, Arts, Emporium Arcade Bar, Tokens & Tankards, Redmoon, Skelebration, MCA DNA: Warhol and Marisol, Andy Warhol, Marisol Escobar, Museum of Contemporary Art

Film, Movie Review Sep 4, 2013

At the 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, every picture tells a story

From multilayered mysteries to a Warholian take on Grand Theft Auto IV, narrative cinema and the avant-garde overlap.

By Ben Sachs

Tags: Movie Review, Sergei Eisenstein, Encounters I May or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin, Buffalo Death Mask, Andy Warhol, Grand Theft Auto IV, JB Mabe, To the Change Assigned, Lewis Klahr, Kiss the Rain, David Fincher, Matt Wolf, I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett, I Am Micro, Seven, Vincent Grenier, Watercolor (Fall Creek), Jake Barningham, Pták básně I a II, Phil Solomon, Empire, Gus Van Sant, Aula Magna, Manuel Barenboim, Ant Hill, Gerry, Andres Denegri, Elephant, Last Days, Joseph Cornell, George Kuchar, Onion City Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Morning of Saint Anthony's Day, As the Flames Rose, João Pedro Rodrigues, Columbia College, Ferguson Theater, O Fantasma, Two Drifters, To Die Like a Man, The Last Time I Saw Macao, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Saint Anthony's Day, Jean Cocteau, The Human Voice, Ben Rivers, Phantoms of a Libertine, Mike Leigh, Terence Davies, Slow Action, Two Years at Sea, Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May, Sabine Gruffat, I Have Always Been a Dreamer, Stephen Graves, A Body Without Organs, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, I Am Micro, Kamal Swaroop, Double Play, Richard Linklater, James Benning

Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2013

Wrestling With My Father: The best four and a half minutes you'll spend at the movies this weekend

A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale's Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night

By Ben Sachs

Tags: On Video, Midwestern Defensiveness, Film, Comedy, Charles Fairbanks, The Nightingale, experimental video, experimental film, film comedy, We're the Millers, The World's End, Andy Warhol, Lewis Klahr, Joseph Cornell, Owen Land, Pioneers, Wrestling With My Father, Buster Keaton, silent comedy, high school wrestling, Robert Nelson

Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2013

Doc Films kicks off its summer season tomorrow

Previewing the Doc Films program through the end of August

By Ben Sachs

Tags: Opening, Film, Doc Films, summer calendar, F.W. Murnau, City Girl, Jean-Luc Godard, Andy Warhol, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masculine Feminine, Vivre sa Vie, Sisters of the Gion, Life of Oharu, Kiss, Lupe, local filmmakers, Melika Bass, Jim Trainor, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, Silver Bullets, Empire Builder, Expose Me Lovely, Mexican Bus Ride, Luis Bunuel, Noel Burch, Satyajit Ray, Charulata, Mike Gibisser

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 6, 2013

Who does Brandon Baltzley think he is?

A chef whose mesmerizing creativity is deserving of fame? A drug addict in recovery who rightly eschews sobriety? A twentysomething memoirist whose brief history is worth your time? Or is he none of those things?

By Sarah Nardi

Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Brandon Baltzley, Leigh Hansen, pop-up dinners, chefs, WD-50, New York, memoirs, addiction, books, Rock 'n Roll Ghost, Wylie Dufresne, Hugh Acheson, Top Chef, Empire State South, restaurants, chef personalities, 6th Street Kitchen, Jacksonville, Florida, Grant Achatz, Alinea, Schwa, Michael Carlson, Mado, Rob Levitt, Allie Levitt, Eater, blogs, online comments, David Richard, Essex Inn, cocaine, drugs, Twitter, Kevin Pang, Chicago Tribune, Tribute, Andy Warhol, Emily Belden, smoking, rehabilitation, ICM Partner, talent agencies, Pittsburgh, Michigan City, Indiana, Steve Newman, TMIP, happiness, sex, sobriety, drinking, Crux, farms, Cherry, Illinois, Kevin Sousa, Salt of the Earth, Stagioni, Bar Marco, zoning, licensing, business

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2013

Well-furnished movie theaters are some of the best places to nap

. . . but, alas, there are no good sleep-inducing movies playing in town this week.

By Ben Sachs

Tags: Moviegoing, Technology, Film, Moviegoing, Abbas Kiarostami, Showplace ICON, Andy Warhol, Like Someone in Love, Shirin, Five Dedicated to Ozu, Nude Restaurant, Sleep, napping, consumerism, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

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For Clee McCracken, clocks are a lifestyle.

Ben Russell's epic portrait of the global labor force screens at the Chicago Underground Film Festival

The Lula Cafe chef’s menu is its own form of contemporary art.

The director's 1972 film adaptation of his own stage play screens at Doc Films this Sunday at 7 PM.

“Merce Cunninghman: Common Time” considers one of the 20th century’s most significant choreographers.

The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

"The New Contemporary" isn't really new or contemporary, but it's a coup for the AIC.

The Columbia College gallery's latest exhibit combines historical documents and contemporary art in an attempt to properly contextualize trans art and artists.

The Loyola University Museum of Art celebrates its first decade by bringing back some of its greatest hits.

A dance-music shindig from arts collective the Inconvenience provides some good old-fashioned multidisciplinary mayhem.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich," Miller pictures his favorite subject in some of his all-time favorite shots.

In defense of the acid-age designer and painter.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A new documentary revisits the art and times of the Chicago imagists.

Noting upcoming screenings of City Streets (1931) and Body and Soul (1947) at Northwestern University

Noting three upcoming screenings at the Lincoln Park punk bar

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, November 3

From multilayered mysteries to a Warholian take on Grand Theft Auto IV, narrative cinema and the avant-garde overlap.

A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale's Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night

Previewing the Doc Films program through the end of August

A chef whose mesmerizing creativity is deserving of fame? A drug addict in recovery who rightly eschews sobriety? A twentysomething memoirist whose brief history is worth your time? Or is he none of those things?

. . . but, alas, there are no good sleep-inducing movies playing in town this week.

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