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The Block Museum of Art hosts an opening today of 90 Polaroids taken by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe between 1970 and 1975. Through April 5. Open until 5 p.m. today. Northwestern University. 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston.

Unlike chocolate and peanut butter, politics and art are rarely two great tastes that taste great together. Witness Robert Mapplethorpe’s troubles with the NEA, the painting of former Chicago mayor Harold Washington in women’s underwear and this weekend’s Team America: World Police which is at the top of Chicagoist’s must-see list this weekend. Social commentary with puppets from the makers of South Park? Yes! And yet this only proves the above thesis as none other...