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City Life, Public Service Announcement Mar 12, 2021
Signs of spring

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, listings, events, concerts, Gallery 400, UIC, Adrian Piper, Felicia Holman, COVID-19, restaurants, Black People Eats, Lakeview, Rebellious, Crossroads Fund, forest preserve, Auburn Gresham, roller skating, bowling

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jan 21, 2020
‘Transition’ showcases perseverance

The art exhibit seeks to bring humanity and life to youth experiencing homelessness.
- By Ariel Parrella-Aureli
- Tags: Art Feature, Transition, Zamari Vivens, Gallery 400, Kasey White, One Heart One Soul, Called to Create, Mireya Fouche, homeless youth, art, photography

Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 24, 2019
Recommended
‘The Last Judgment’ brings catharsis to Little Village

Artist Adela Goldbard draws from Mexican traditions to address issues in the neighborhood today.
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Art Review, Adela Goldbard, Gallery 400, Little Village, The Last Judgment, pyrotechnics, papier mache, Chicago Architecture Biennial, visual arts, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Nov 29, 2018
'Chicago New Media 1973-1992' pays tribute to the city’s contribution to video games and digital art

On the frontier of free information, experimentation, and self-expression.
- By Caroline Picard
- Tags: Art Feature, Chicago New Media 1973-1992, Gallery 400, Jon Cates, UIC, Chaz Evans, Jonathan Kinkley, VGA Gallery, Video Data Bank, video games, new media, Electronic Visualization Events, Midway Games, Williams Electronics, Dan Sandin, Phil Morton, Tom DeFanti, Ted Nelson, Jamie Faye Fenton, Ellen Sandor, (art)n, Stephan Meyers, Janine Fron, Craig Ahmer, Jane Veeder, Jason Salavon, Siebren Versteeg, Chicago Media Arts, technology

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Apr 25, 2018
The American dream, in frosting: the art of Yvette Mayorga

Do immigrants really find a better life in the U.S., or is it just a fantasia of prosperity full of barely concealed threats?
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Art Feature, Yvette Mayorga, American dream, Mexican immigrants, Mexican-American, immigration, U.S.-Mexico border, Really Safe in My Room, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SAIC, border politics, Candy Land, Gallery 400, Out of Easy Reach, Allison Glenn, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hello Kitty, Selena, Moline, Jerez, confectionary, cake frosting, Chicago Artists Coalition, Bolt residency, Janine Mileaf, fiber and material studies, Monuments, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sculpture, The Politics of Desire, Expo Chicago, High Maintainence, National Mexican Museum of Art

Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2017
That's Weird Grandma: Attack of the Phantom of the BBQ and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

The film program "Remnants of a Dream" at Gallery 400, Art on Clark, and more happenings from July 17-20
- By Emily Wasielewski
- Tags: Arts, Do This, A Fool's Journey: A Misfit Circus Cabaret, Remnants of a Dream, MINT: Musical Improv Night, Women Employed, Art on Clark, Rhythm World 27, That's Weird, Grandma: Attack of the Phantom of the BBQ, Chopin Theatre, Gallery 400, MCL Chicago, Neo-Futurarium, Jazz Showcase

Blogs, Bleader Jun 23, 2017
Chicago Zombie March, Logan Square Arts Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

The Chicago Mariachi Festival, the Neo-Futurists' 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, and more happenings from June 23-25
- By Emily Wasielewski
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Chicago Mariachi Festival, Mariachi Los Camperos, Mariachi Reyna, Mariachi Hernecia, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Mike Jones, PainoForte Studios, Afro-Dancehall with Stacy Letrice, Lou Conte Dance Studio, Chicago Zombie March, Millennium Park, Black Light, Gallery 400, Premier Premieres!, World's Largest Block Party, Old St. Pat's Church, 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, Neo-Futurarium

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2017
Black Scholars Salon with Thelma Golden, WhiskyFest Chicago kick-off, and more things to do this week

Open Books and Laugh, Karaoke Night, and more happenings from April 17-20.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Sable Kitchen & Bar, WhiskyFest Chicago, Diamanda Galás, Thalia Hall, Deb Olin Unferth, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Open Books and Laugh, Laugh Factory, Kelly Leonard, General Assembly, Karaoke Night, Revival Food Hall, Myq Kaplan, Schubas, MK Czerwiec, Illinois Masonic, Black Scholars Salon, Rebuild Foundation, Theaster Gates, Thelma Golden, The Earth Will Not Abide, Gallery 400

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 3, 2016
Video
Artists Andrew Yang and Christa Donner explore the natural world from the comforts of home

Artists Andrew Yang and Christa Donner offer guided tours of their studios and talk about their work and their process.
- By Chris Buddy and Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Fall Preview, Visual Art, Andrew Yang, Christa Donner, MCA, Gallery 400, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2016
Copa America soccer tournament, Silent Shakespeare, and more things to do in Chicago this week

The Art of Falling returns, Exoneree Diaries author Alison Flowers, and more happenings from June 6-9
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Joan of Arc, Elastic Arts, JOA20, Silent Shakespeare, Music Box Theatre, What We Have Witnessed, Gallery 400, First Tuesdays with Mick and Ben, Hideout, Copa America, Soldier Field, Alison Flowers, Women & Children First, Home Movies Reconsidered, Comfort Station, Activate: Hear, Sullivan Center Alley, Second City, Hubbard Street, the Art of Falling, Harris Theatre

Arts & Culture, Art Review May 12, 2016
Recommended
‘Our Duty to Fight’ brings Black Lives Matter to the art gallery

A new exhibit at Gallery 400 documents the past, present, and future of the activist movement.
- By Nissa Rhee
- Tags: Art Review, Our Duty to Fight, Gallery 400, Black Lives Matter, Laquan McDonald, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Dyett High School, Joseph Dole, Stateville Correctional Center, Darius Pinex, Rhonda Wheatley, Gloria Pinex, Flint Farmer, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2016
Baraka de Soleil tackles race and disability in a performance-art lecture tomorrow

At Gallery 400, the artist presents "The 'Good' Body (Chicago Edition)."
- By Kate Sierzputowski
- Tags: Arts, Politics, Baraka de Soleil, "The 'Good' Body (Chicago Edition)", Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC, Bodies of Work, Exposure series, 3Arts, Carrie Sandahl

Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2016
Sketchbook Festival's final year, Run the Jewels at the MCA, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

RhinoFest, The Year of the Rooster, and other weekend happenings in Chicago from January 15-17.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Sketchbook Festival, Chopin Theatre, The Year of the Rooster, Red Theater, Few Were Happy With Their Condition, Gallery 400, Run the Jewels, Museum of Contemporary Art, RhinoFest, Prop Thtr, Laugh Your Face Off, Laugh Factory

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 9, 2015
Chances Dances turns ten, grows up, and celebrates with a multimedia exhibit
- By Laura Pearson
- Tags: Fall Arts, Fall Preview 2015, Chances Dances, Gallery 400, Platforms: 10 Years of Chances Dances, Edie Fake, Charles Vinz, Elijah Burgher, Gordon Hall, Lorelei Stewart, John Neff

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2015
Video
Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Abel Ferrara, Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Dominigue Strauss-Kahn, The Wrecking Crew, Denny Tedesco, Tommy Tedesco, Adult Beginners, Nick Kroll, Dior and I, Little Boy, The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe, White Cop, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Gene Graham, The Godfather of Disco, Black Cinema House, David O. Selznick, Gone With the Wind, Lon Chaney, Laugh Clown Laugh, Patio Theater Chicago, Jay Warren, Ivan Dixon, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Gallery 400, Circles and Ciphers, Jean Renior, The Woman on the Beach, Robert Ryan, Nightingale Cinema, Facets Cinematheque, Oracle Theatre, Cinemetrics Across Borders, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Creative Music Summit, Oscar Micheaux, Body and Soul, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kirby Dick, The Hunting Ground, Kartemquin Members' Work for Hire, Kartemquin Films, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 4, 2014
Sunday: A memorial for Peter Hales

A memorial service for author-historian and retired UIC professor Peter Bacon Hales will be held in Chicago on Sunday, October 5.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Visual Art, Peter Hales, Peter Bacon Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago, Gallery 400, University of Chicago Press, Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2014
Video
This Monday discover the weird, wonderful world of experimental animator Suzan Pitt

Previewing a 90-minute program, which spans Pitt's career from the early 1970s to the mid-2000s
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Visual Art, Suzan Pitt, Chicago Filmmakers, Gallery 400, experimental animation, Asparagus, Jefferson Circus Songs, Video

Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 3, 2014
Video
The natural selection of Jenny Kendler

Artist and environmental activist Jenny Kendler makes complex work about the weird relationship between humans and the natural world. And she has just found a bigger platform as the first-ever artist in residence for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Feature, Jenny Kendler, artists, environmental activists, paintings, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, volcano rabbit, species, extinction, E.O. Wilson, Edward Abbey, conservation movement, Marfa Dialogues, climate change, Saint Louis, monarch butterflies, milkweed, CAC, Chicago Artists Coalition, lichen, installations, John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. Airways, Operation Migration, whooping cranes, Thomas Nagel, essays, philosophy, West Town, Los Angeles, foraging, mulberries, daylilies, saskatoons, Salt Point State Park, Richmond, Virginia, environmentalists, San Luis Obispo, Nature Conservancy, Salt Lake City, secular humanists, Mormons, solar power, naturalist artists, naturalists, David Abram, Maryland Institute College of Art, SAIC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, collage, drawing, subjugation, natural world, female body, Endangered Species Print Project, Molly Schafer, ESPP, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Caroline Picard, Gallery 400, Chernobylanimals, Expo Chicago, Brian Kirkbride, Other People's Pixels, Elizabeth Corr, Gordon Matta-Clark, Earth Day, Vaughn Bell, The Violet Hour, collaboration, nonprofits, artists in residence, public art, New York City Department of Transportation, Chicago Park District, acorns, photography, sea stars, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2013
"It's the Political Economy, Stupid," "Suicide Narcissus," and the rest of your weekend in visual arts

Your guide to visual arts in the city this weekend
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, The Tyranny of Good Taste, at Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery, Mike's Kind of Town, Cobalt Studio, Mike Pocius, In the Hood: Portraits of African American Professionals, Zhou B Art Center, Cesar Conde, Gallery 400, Suicide Narcissus, Renaissance Society

Blogs, Bleader Feb 25, 2013
Audio
The small sound world of California artist Steve Roden

The sound artist makes some rare Chicago appearances this week.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Steve Roden, sound art, Gallery 400, Proximities, Observer Effect, I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates my Traces, Chinati Foundation, Donald Judd, Sparks From One Hand on Fire, A Big Circle Drawn With Little Hands, Burlington Bar, Audio

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2013
Exhibits I might skip, part one: Gallery 400's "Observer Effect"

Gallery 400's "Observer Effect" explained—or not.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Visual Art, Gallery 400, UIC, Jerome Ludwig, Books I won't review, Carrie Gundersdorf, Lorelei Stewart, John O'Connor, Steve Roden, Jorinde Voigt

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2010
3/18— Free Artists at Work Forum

Tonight 3/18 at 6 PM, the Chicago Cultural Center hosts "Domestic Studio," a talk about making art at home.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Visual Art, Free Shit, Other Stuff, Apropos of Nothing, Swag, Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Chicago, Gallery 400, Jason Lazarus, Georgina Valverde, Brian Kapernekas, Lorelei Stewart, Domestic Studio

Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2009
Feminist video today at UIC

Feminist Critique video screening today at UIC's Gallery 400
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Gallery 400, University of Illinois-Chicago, People's Matinee Series, Feminist Critique, UIC Art History Graduate Student Association

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2008
Drag City art show closes Saturday!

Last chance to see Drag City's art exhibit Chances Are the Comets in Our Future.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Art, Drag City, Gallery 400, Royal Trux, Weird War, David Berman, exhibition

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