THIS WEEK
Tuesday
September 22nd
How Do We Heal?
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, July 11th
Nina Chanel Abney: Between Us
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, July 11th
teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, February 21st
Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago Grand Opening Celebration and New Onsite Exhibition, “A Palm of Victory,”
@ Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave. Ste. 1580, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 11th
Leopold Procession
@ MCA Plaza to SAIC Galleries
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, September 22nd, from 4PM - 6PM
Wind Knitting Factory by Dutch Designer Merel Karhof
@ Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, September 22nd, from 11 am - 4 PM
Wednesday
September 23rd
Narratives of the Flesh II: Embodied Grief
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, September 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, September 23rd
33rd Chicago Underground Film Festival
@ Chicago
Gene Siskel Film Center and the Harper Theater
On view through Sunday, September 27th
2026 Filter Photo Festival
@ Colombia College Student Center
754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Saturday, September 26th
Thursday
September 24th
Kind of Representational
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
The Sapphire Gayla: 45 Years of Gerber/Hart
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, September 24th, at 7PM
Candace Hunter: Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams?
@ Arts + Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 12th
Lessons in (Art Space Accessibility)
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, November 2nd
Pressure: Shameekia Shantel Johnson, Mark Pascale, & Eric Von Haynes
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Linework: Chicago Comics and Community
@ Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Friday
September 25th
Where Memory Lives: 40 Years of Día de Muertos
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Taffy Pull
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
Chicago Journal of Visual Art Issue I Launch
@ Point Blank
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 25th, at 6PM
Sonja Thomsen and Aaron R. Turner: LIGHT SLIP – ARCHIVE, ABSTRACTION, & PHENOMENA
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 3rd
Inner Worlds: Visions from the Hirshhorn Collection Works by Mary Bauermeister, Yayoi Kusama, and Niki de Saint Phalle
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago
On view through Saturday, December 19th
Everyday War: Yuan Goang-Ming
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago
On view through Saturday, December 19th
Community Blessings Rangoli Drawing
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 12PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 26th
Saturday
September 26th
Michael Workman: Writing as Cultural Archaeology and the Poetics of Place
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 12PM - 2PM
DIY Skeletons for Puppet Creatures By Emilie Wingate [Hybrid: In-person or online]
@ Chicago Creative Use Exchange
2124 W 82nd Pl, Chicago, IL 60620
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 1PM - 3PM
Fall Equinox Acoustic Ecology Hike
@ Meadowbrook Nature Preserve
109 W 700 North, Valpariso, IN 46385
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
13th Annual Beverly Art Walk
@ Beverly Art Walk: Uprising Handmade Market
1750 W 103rd St, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 11am - 5PM
Randolph Street Market Festival
@ Randolph Street Market
1341 W. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 27th
Sunday
September 27th
Documentation Workshops and Open Studios
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 10am - 12PM
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