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Past Exhibitions

Browse a complete list of past exhibitions, from 1883 to 2007, at the exhibition history archive.

Project Projects: Test Fit
November 17, 2012–April 28, 2013
Gallery 286
New York–based graphic design firm Project Projects offers a model of an exhibition that addresses issues of representation and reproductions in a playful, yet critical way.
Material Translations: Japanese Fashion from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
November 3, 2012–April 7, 2013
Gallery 109
Designs by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto, and Issey Miyake commemorate the 25th year of SAIC’s Fashion Resource Center.
Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects
September 24, 2012–February 24, 2013
Galleries 283–285
The first exhibition to explore the work of Studio Gang Architects offers a studio-like environment that reflects the firm’s collaborative, inquiry-based, and research-driven approach.
Blood, Gold, and Fire: Coloring Early German Woodcuts
August 13, 2012–February 17, 2013
Gallery 202A
Raw colors and burnished gold explode in this special exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago’s earliest, boldest, and least-seen devotional woodcuts.
A Century of Architectural Drawings: Early Collections from the Burnham Library of Architecture
October 13, 2012–January 27, 2013
Gallery 24
The drawings featured in this exhibition demonstrate the Burnham Library’s broad vision of architectural history.
The Floating World Emerges: Selections from the Clarence Buckingham Collection, Part I
November 10, 2012–January 27, 2013
Gallery 107
Featuring the museum’s earliest and most famous ukiyo-e prints, or “pictures of the floating world,” this exhibition includes approximately 35 works dating from the late 17th to the first half of...
focus: Hito Steyerl
November 1, 2012–January 27, 2013
Galleries 182–184, 186, and 295
This focus exhibition features six works by German artist Hito Steyerl, whose practice combines elements of experimental film, auteur cinema, documentary, and video art.
Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper
July 28, 2012–January 13, 2013
Galleries 124–127
These nearly 100 works on paper, including several works by Ed Ruscha, Carroll Dunham, and Martin Kippenberger, have never or rarely been seen in our galleries.
Allen Ruppersberg: No Time Left to Start Again/The B and D of R 'n' R
September 21, 2012–January 6, 2013
Gallery 188
A sweeping survey of classic American popular musicians from blues singers of the 1930s through guitar legends of the 1960s, Allen Ruppersberg’s latest piece debuts at the Art Institute.
Holiday Thorne Rooms
November 23, 2012–January 6, 2013
Gallery 11
The Thorne Miniature Rooms are dressed in holiday finery with the Pennsylvania Dutch room joining the decorating tradition and an original German Rococo room on view for the first time in 50 years!

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