JANUARY
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Chicago-based artist Jin Soo Kim has spent the past few weeks arranging a trail of broken furniture, a TV antenna, lightbulbs, an antique wooden ironing board, pieces of Styrofoam, copper-wrapped garden hose, and other found objects along one long wall of the Chicago Cultural Center’s Sidney R. Yates Gallery. The installation, Prepositions, “flows horizontally, like a river,” explains the Cultural Center’s Gregory Knight, who curated the retrospective it’s part of, Jin Soo Kim: Twenty Years, 1983-2003. The exhibit, which includes the Korean-born Kim’s bound and wrapped early sculptural takes on chairs, several cagelike wire structures, and her more minimalist recent work, goes up today and runs through April 6 at the CCC, 78 E. Washington, Chicago. The gallery’s open 10 to 7 Monday through Wednesday, 10 to 9 Thursday, 10 to 6 Friday, 10 to 5 Saturday, and 11 to 5 Sunday. It’s free; call 312-744-6630.
In real life, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X never met, but in Jeff Stetson’s The Meeting the two sit down for a heart-to-heart in a Harlem hotel room a week before Malcolm X is killed. Pin Points Theatre of Washington, D.C., will present the award-winning play, which contrasts the public styles and strategies of the two leaders but also emphasizes their humor and humanity, at 7:30 tonight in Harper College’s Business and Social Science Center Theatre (room J143), 1200 W. Algonquin in Palatine. (A 1997 touring production was “deeply engaging,” according to Reader critic Lawrence Bommer.) Tickets are $7, $6 for students, $5 for seniors and Harper students. Call 847-925-6100.
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