Exhibitions

Picasso and Chicago
Wednesday, February 20, 2013–Sunday, May 12, 2013
Member Preview: February 16–19
Regenstein Hall
They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950
March 3, 2013–June 2, 2013
Galleries 182–184
Chicago’s artistic life in the first half of the 20th century was transformed by the arrival of thousands of newcomers—from Europe, the American South, and Mexico.
Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!
February 21, 2013–August 11, 2013
Gallery 293
Kara Walker's commissioned installation includes her celebrated cut-paper silhouettes accompanied by several drawings, continuing what she has called her “ever-present, never-ending war with race.”
Irving Penn: Underfoot
January 17, 2013–May 12, 2013
Gallery 188
The complete series of master photographer Irving Penn's close-ups of Manhattan pavements transforms gum and cigarettes into cosmic abstractions.
Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art
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.
Sharing Space: Creative Intersections in Architecture and Design
April 6, 2013–August 18, 2013
Galleries 283–285
From the powerful effect of color to the rigor of geometry, this exhibition presents architecture and design works that reveal common concepts and strategies across these interwoven fields.
The Artist and the Poet
February 1, 2013–June 2, 2013
Galleries 124–127
This collection of prints and drawings surveys the myriad ways visual artists have been inspired by or collaborated with poets in the 20th century.
When Collecting Was New: Photographs from the Robert A. Taub Collection
December 15, 2012–May 12, 2013
Galleries 1–4
More than 100 photographs chart the rebirth of an American photo market from the 1960s through the 1980s.

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