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Watch as Henri Matisse's monumental Bathers by a River is installed in the Modern Wing. The entire third floor of the new building is dedicated to the museum's collection of modern European art.

James Cuno, president and director of the Art Institute, introduces some of the public spaces in the new Modern Wing. Terzo Piano, the museum's new restaurant, the Nichols Bridgeway, and the Bluhm Family Terrace are all accessible without paying museum admission.

Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, sits down with Art Institute director James Cuno to discuss how museums are being built to tell both local and global stories.

Get an inside glimpse of the Modern Wing as James Cuno, director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago, describes the galleries of the Modern Wing.

Historian Natalie Zemon Davis, currently an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and best known for her book The Return of Martin Guerre, has been a pioneer in the field of social history. She reviews her most recent book based on a historical character titled Trickster Travels: A 16th-Century Muslim Between Worlds.

Nayan Chanda, Director of Publications, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization discusses his new book Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. "We humans have been on the move ever since our ancestors stepped out of Africa and began spreading to the ends of the earth. To trade goods, to win converts to their faiths, to search for a better and fulfilling life and to dominate others, generations of humans have crossed oceans, mountains and deserts. In the process, they have produced the interconnected world that we term as 'globalization.'"

Presented with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Chicago Humanities Festival 2008.

Diana Eck, Harvard University professor of comparative religions and Indian studies and director of the Pluralist Project, sits down with museum director James Cuno to discuss the Art Institute's role as the site for the 1893 gathering called the Parliament of Religions.

Richard Longworth, Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, discusses his recent book Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism with Art Institute president and director James Cuno.

President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute James Cuno previews the global themes and events that are part of the 360 Degrees: Art beyond Borders season.

Watch Takeshi Arita and Eileen Jeng as they execute Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing Number 1257: Scribbles for the first time.

Enjoy the view! Watch the museum expand before your eyes in this time-lapsed video.