The Art Institute of Chicago

Max Kozloff: Critic and Photographer
October 5, 2013–January 5, 2014
Galleries 1–4
This survey of the work of Max Kozloff, includes his photographs, his writings, and works by some of the photographers about whom he has written over the decades.
Ed Clark
October 11, 2013–March 9, 2014
Gallery 296
Pioneering paintings by artist Ed Clark come together in celebration of his receiving the Art Institute’s Legends and Legacy Award, an honor recognizing living African American artists.
The Mezzotints of Hamanishi Katsunori
October 12, 2013–January 5, 2014
Gallery 107
Celebrating the recent gift of works by Hamanishi from the Ninion and Sheldon Landy Collection, this exhibition brings together a selection of the artist's mezzotints from the 1970s through 2012.
Amar Kanwar: The Lightning Testimonies
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.
Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes”
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.
Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection
October 20, 2013–February 16, 2014
Galleries 124–127
This selection of 115 pieces from the Hilliards’ impressive and diverse collection ranges from 16th-century drawings to modern 20th-century works on paper and sculpture.
focus: Monika Baer
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.
When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt after Alexander the Great
October 31, 2013–July 27, 2014
Gallery 154
Over 75 artworks—gilded mummy masks, luxury glass, magical amulets, and portraits in stone and precious metals—demonstrate the influence of foreign rule on ancient Egypt’s distinctive visual culture...
Ugo Rondinone: we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces look twisted.
October 31, 2013–April 20, 2014
Bluhm Family Terrace
The Bluhm Family Terrace is transformed into an imagined Chinese landscape with the installation of five of Ugo Rondinone's towering interpretations of scholars' rocks.
Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine
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.
Neapolitan Crèche: A Holiday Gift to the City
November 29, 2013–January 5, 2014
Gallery 209
Member Preview: November 26
Featuring over 200 figures, this rare and remarkably preserved 18th-century Neapolitan Nativity scene—one of the very few and finest examples outside of Naples—makes its Art Institute debut.
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness
January 25, 2014–May 18, 2014
Galleries 1–4, 188–189, 283–285
Christopher Williams's first retrospective showcases how the artist has mined the techniques and history of photography to pursue contemporary art as a domain of intellectual inquiry.
Christopher Wool
February 23, 2014–May 11, 2014
Regenstein Hall
Paintings, photographs, and works on paper comprise the most comprehensive examination of Christopher Wool's career to date.
Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938
June 22, 2014–October 12, 2014
Regenstein Hall
This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on the breakthrough years of René Magritte, creator of some of the 20th century’s most extraordinary images.

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