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Past Exhibition in 2012

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Picturing Poetry
November 17, 2012–May 12, 2013
Ryan Education Center, Picture Book Gallery
Award-winning picture book artists Carin Berger, R. Gregory Christie, Brian Pinkney, James Rumford, Peter Sís, and Ed Young transform poetry into unique and unexpected illustrations.
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.
Danh Vo: We The People (detail), 2010–2013
November 17, 2012–May 5, 2013
Bluhm Family Terrace
Vietnamese-born, New York–based artist Danh Vo brings his installation of reconstructed fragments of the Statue of Liberty to the Art Institute.
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.

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