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  Cocktails & Clay

  Fri 8pm–midnight

  Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S Cornell Ave, at 51st St, Bronzeville/Hyde Park/South Shore, Chicago (773-324-5520)

  Learn hand-building and coils, or just play with your clay at the HPAC's monthly event, which features a DJ and drink specials. Donations suggested. For more...

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  “Christa Donner: Non-Prescription.”

  Fri 7pm–11pm

  Medicine Cabinet 3216 S Morgan St, apt 4R, at 32nd Pl, Bridgeport/Chinatown, Chicago (630-849-7750)

  Donner's imaginative riffs on viscera recall pop-up books and folding medical charts. For more information, visit the-medicine-cabinet.blogspot.com....

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  “Gene Hamilton: Vent Figure Fun!”

  Today–Thu 11am–5:30pm, Fri 11am–5:30pm, 5:30pm–8pm, Sat 11am–5:30pm

  Packer Schopf Gallery 942 W Lake St, Morgan and Sangamon Sts, Loop/West Loop, Chicago (312-226-8984)

  We can't write a blurb about these portraits of ventriloquists' dummies because we're too busy screaming. Reception Fri 12, 5–8pm. Through Sat 13. ?...

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  “Jason Lahr: DEATHMETALHIPPIEKILLER.”

  Today–Thu 11am–5:30pm, Fri 11am–5:30pm, 5:30pm–8pm, Sat 11am–5:30pm

  Packer Schopf Gallery 942 W Lake St, Morgan and Sangamon Sts, Loop/West Loop, Chicago (312-226-8984)

  Using fragmented texts, Lahr's darkly comic paintings, installations and drawings narrate the struggles of working-class male characters perplexed by women in...

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  “Jim Zimpel: by George.”

  Fri 7pm–11pm

  Second Bedroom Project Space 3216 S Morgan St, apt 4R, at 32nd Pl, Bridgeport/Chinatown, Chicago (630-849-7750)

  Zimpel channels his grandfather George for an installation about collecting, tools and male identity. For more information, visit secondbedroomproject.blogspot.com....

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  “Tim Vermeulen: Moby Dick.”

  Today–Thu 11am–5:30pm, Fri 11am–5:30pm, 5:30pm–8pm, Sat 11am–5:30pm

  Packer Schopf Gallery 942 W Lake St, Morgan and Sangamon Sts, Loop/West Loop, Chicago (312-226-8984)

  Vermeulen's small figurative paintings illustrate passages from Herman Melville's novel as autobiographical scenes set in the present. Reception Fri 12, 5–8pm....

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  “AfriCOBRA and the Chicago Black Arts Movement.”

  Sundays 10am–10pm, Mondays 10am–10pm, Tuesdays 10am–10pm, Wednesdays 10am–10pm, Thursdays 10am–10pm, Fridays 6pm–8pm, Saturdays 10am–10pmThrough Mar 17.

  Dittmar Memorial Gallery Northwestern University, Norris University Ctr, 1999 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL (847-491-2348)

  Several famous works by AfriCOBRA—a black artists' collective founded on the South Side in 1968—offer insight into the influential group's formative years. Opens Fri...

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  “Emma Bee Bernstein: Masquerade, A Retrospective.”

  Tomorrow–Thu noon–5pm, Fri noon–5pm, 5pm–8pm, Sat noon–5pm, Feb 17 noon–5pm Ongoing through Feb 27.

  DOVA Temporary Gallery University of Chicago, 5228 S Harper Ave, between 52nd St and 52nd Pl, Bronzeville/Hyde Park/South Shore, Chicago (773-324-2089)

  Bernstein was receiving national attention for her feminist art and activism when she died in 2008 at the age of 23. Thirty photographs by the U. of Chicago alum...

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  “Free to Be.”

  Fri 5pm–11pm, Mon 3pm–8pm, Feb 16 noon–8pm, Feb 17 3pm–8pm, Feb 18 noon–8pm Ongoing through Feb 25.

  Anode Gallery 718 W 18th St, between Halsted St and Union Ave, Heart of Italy/Little Italy/Pilsen, Chicago

  Ten local artists including Steve Somers, Gabe Lanza and Shayne Labadie show recent work. Opens Fri 12, 5–11pm. Through Feb 26....

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  “Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes.”

  Tuesdays 10:30am–5:30pm, Wednesdays 10:30am–5:30pm, Thursdays 10:30am–5:30pm, Fridays 10:30am–5:30pm, 5:30pm–8pm, Saturdays 10:30am–5:30pmThrough Apr 17.

  Walsh Gallery 118 N Peoria St, between Washington Blvd and Randolph St, Loop/West Loop, Chicago (312-829-3312)

  Itatani, who's taught at SAIC for decades, shows new large-scale, mostly monochromatic paintings—her most autobiographical works to date. Reception Fri, Feb 12, 5...

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