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- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 27, 2017
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2016
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Zoolander returns, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- 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.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2015
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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The Columbia College gallery's latest exhibit combines historical documents and contemporary art in an attempt to properly contextualize trans art and artists.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 3, 2015
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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.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 28, 2015
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2015
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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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2014
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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
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2013
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Delilah's pays tribute to Lou Reed with a short series of music docs
Noting three upcoming screenings at the Lincoln Park punk bar
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 3, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Sun 11/3: Tokens & Tankards, Skelebration, and "Warhol and Marisol"
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, November 3
- Film, Movie Review Sep 4, 2013
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2013
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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
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2013
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Doc Films kicks off its summer season tomorrow
Previewing the Doc Films program through the end of August
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 6, 2013
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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?
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2013
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Wed 2/13: Gillian Flynn, The Graduate, and pop art
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, February 13, 2013