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Lectures and Programs
Friday, October 4, 2013
12:00PM–1:00PM
Guided Tour
Lectures and Programs
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
12:00PM–12:30PM
30-minute guided tour
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Current Exhibitions
Through October 06, 2013
Gallery 107
This exhibition affords a rare opportunity to view several prints from the famous "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" series, including three versions of "The Great Wave."
Ongoing
Galleries 150–154
Through over 550 works, these stunning new galleries present the origins and early development of Western art from the third millennium B.C. to the time of the great Byzantine Empire.
Through January 05, 2014
Galleries 188–189
The first museum exhibition on photographer Shomei Tomatsu (1930–2012) since his death, this presentation is also the first to focus on Tomatsu’s long fascination with Japan’s southern islands.
Through January 05, 2014
Galleries 283–285
Work by fashion designer Issey Miyake, architect Greg Lynn, and Dutch designers Scholten & Baijings explores how research and experimentation are driving new forms of architecture and design.
Upcoming Exhibitions
October 17, 2013–January 9, 2014
Galleries 202 and 202A
An exceptional loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Artemisia Gentileschi’s sensational "Judith Slaying Holofernes" (c. 1620) comes to Chicago for the first time.
October 14, 2013–January 12, 2014
Gallery 291
This disturbing eight-channel video installation explores the often repressed, always sensitive, and newly urgent subject of sexual violence against women on the Indian subcontinent.
November 12, 2013–January 27, 2014
Regenstein Hall
Member Preview: November 9–11
Examine the many meanings and interpretations of eating in America through over 75 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the 18th through the 20th century.
October 24, 2013–January 26, 2014
Galleries 182–184
The first U.S. museum exhibition of Berlin-based artist Monika Baer's work, this presentation reflects the diversity of the artist’s practice—both conceptual and performative, spare and sensuous.
