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The West Loop gallery Spoke is offering up Objet Petit A: an exhibition and auction of artist-created piñatas to benefit both the gallery and the Chicago Rarities Orchard Project. A brand-new organization, CROP was founded to establish community rare-fruit orchards in Chicago and preserve open space. Auction participants will bid on piñatas created by artists Abby Christensen and Emily Vanhoff, Ben Fain, Jose Lerma and Cristina Tufino, Michael Jones McKean, Tomas Moreno, Harriet Salmon, and Astri Swendsrud — and the winners will be able to either keep the works as-is, or bash them up at a public performance event and reception taking place on September 11.

Perhaps you couldn't afford to Lolla this year -- sux. Or maybe you are disenchanted with the whole music festival scene: the $6 hot pretzel dinners, and the foul-smelling porta-potties, and the crappy bands you have to sit through to get to the good bands. Well, we are here to remind you that you have entertainment options -- and they don't involve wristbands, or Perry Farrell, or the onset of tinnitus, or even hot pretzels. Instead, they involve mingling, and pine-scented bathrooms, and possibly some bowls of Sun Chips. Oh -- and visual art!

Remember when you could just buy a six-pack of something, like Hanes underpants or Hamm's beer, use one or two of the pack, then condemn the rest to the landfill? Wasn't that fun? Almost as fun as throwing trash out of car windows. Well, those wasteful days are gone, Gatsby -- at least temporarily -- thanks to The Great Depression: Internet Edition. Now that we're all Okies and hobos, we have to save fuzzballs and weave them into hoodies, and turn our used paper plates into filters for our DSLRs instead of buy real filters, and manufacture our own anti-depressants out of those candy circus peanut nightmares. It's tough.

Aw ... poor wittle wone-wee singleton has no romantical dinner plans tonite? Well, stop your whining and crying, Sadsack, and get out of the house to see some art:

Hoo boy. We've got a lot of art openings going down in the West Loop on Friday, some calls for entries, and fun with cubes.