Wrightwood 659 presents exhibitions on socially engaged art and architecture, on issues facing LGBTQ+ communities, and on Asian art and architecture. Located in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood in a building transformed by Pritzker Prize winner Tadao Ando, Wrightwood 659 encourages visitors to engage with pressing issues of our time in an intimate and beautiful space.
SPRING 2026 | April 17 – July 18, 2026
Dispossessions in the Americas
Martin Wong: Chinatown USA
FALL 2026 | September 25 – December 19, 2026
One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama
Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War”
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Admission to Wrightwood 659 is only available during the public showing of exhibitions. Advanced reservations are required and available exclusively at wrightwood659.org. Walk-up admission cannot be accommodated.
Image: Interior view of Wrightwood 659.Photography: © Jeff Goldberg/Esto, All Rights Reserved.
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Taking place at FACETS
1517 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL
$15 General Admission
$5 Student Admission + ID
Advance Registration Only
June 18, 6:00 pm
These three hilarious comedies explore what happens when gender is not quite so solid as it seems.
• A Woman (U.S., Charlie Chaplin, 1915, 20min)
• I Don't Want to be a Man (Germany, Ernst Lubitsch, 1918, 45 min.)
• Madame Behave (U.S., Scott Sidney, 1925, 55 min.)
Total running time: 120 min.
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