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Art & Design Events...

  • It's Holiday Time at Apartment Therapy.

  • Figuration in Contemporary Design
    • Featuring: Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Jürgen Mayer H., UNStudio, Foreign Office Architects, Kuth/Raneri, ROY, Joel Sanders with Balmori Associates, KOL/MAC, Greg Lynn/FORM, R&Sie, Klein Dytham, Gage/Clemenceau, MoD, Aranda/Lasch, Kivi Sotamaa, PATTERNS, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Marcel Wanders, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius, Patricia Urquiola, Tord Boontje, Petra Blaisse, Abbott Miller, An Te Liu, Demakersvan, and 2x4.
    • The Art Institute, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
    • Just opened; runs through June 8

  • The New Authentics:
    Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation
    • This inaugural exhibition "explores contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States."
    • 610 S. Michigan Ave.
    • Through April 13

  • Illusive: An Exhibition of Photography
    • The work of four local photographers including AT's Evan Thomas
    • Tojo Gallery, 1418 W. Division
    • Through Dec. 29 (open Saturdays noon-6 pm or by appointment)

  • Winter Exposure
    • Featuring work by: Kristin Anderson, (art)n, Sandra Bermudez, Cameron Crawford, Kim Curtis, Kinga Czerska, Kim Dorland, Carla Gannis, D. Dominick Lombardi and Brian Yates.
    • Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, 1044 W. Fulton Market
    • Through Dec. 29

  • Jasper Johns: Gray
    • "This exhibition emerges from broader studies of Johns's approach to form, examining for the first time the artist's use of gray in his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings from 1955 to the present."
    • The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
    • Through Jan. 6

  • WISH LIST
    • Recent works by Advanced Sculpture Practices Studio students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
    • Koscielak Gallery, 1646 N. Bosworth Ave.
    • Through Jan. 12