The Art Institute of Chicago is an encyclopedic art museum founded in 1879 as both a museum and school for the fine arts. The museum's permanent collection covers nearly 5,000 years of art from around the world, and has grown to nearly 300,000 works, including a collection of Impressionist and post-impressionist pieces.
Housed in a Beaux-Arts style building originally built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, collections include over 1,000 contemporary works from 1945 to the present, nearly 1,000 works of modern art by artists from Europe and the Americas, more than 3,500 European paintings from the 12th through the 20th century, and five millennia of Asian art.
Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.
200 works explore de Kooning’s drawing practice over seven decades
65 artists from 23+ countries who explored abstraction between 1940 and 1970
Stories of self-invention in photography, drawing, and sculpture
40+/- ukiyo-e prints, portrayals of city life in the 17th century
Centuries-old embellishment techniques transmit cultural expression
Epic and intricate, monumental and meticulous paintings
A focused presentation invites close looking at these rare jewel-like objects
The first comprehensive survey of her photographs in 25+ years
75+ works marking the centennial of her death
50+ objects explore shared beliefs and values about the body
80+ drawings and prints spanning more than 6 decades
50 works from 30 major lenders showcase this consummate artist of the Spanish Golden Age
33+ works by Denmark’s important late-19th and early-20th century painter