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Collection Updates

The Art Institute is an active lending institution that is additionally always trying to improve the experience of visitors. Periodically some galleries may be closed and works of art may be on loan to institutions around the globe. To ensure that your visit meets your expectations, please check the updates below.

Gallery Closures

Please note that the ancient Egyptian collection is currently not on view. 

Beginning September 3, the galleries of European modern art will be closed for renovation and will reopen in April 2014.

Artworks off View

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942)
Through November 12, when it will be on view in Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine

Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom (1889) and The Drinkers (1890)
Through mid-January 2014

René Magritte's Time Transfixed (1938), On the Threshold of Liberty (1937), and The Eye (1932/35)
Late August 2013–June 22, 2014, when they will be on view in Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938

Marsden Hartley's Madawaska—Acadian Light-Heavy (1940)
Mid-September 2013–Mid-January 2014

Lucian Freud's Sunny Morning–Eight Legs (1997)
Late September 2013–May 2014

James MacNeill Whistler's Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach (1863)
Early October 2013–late August 2014

Vincent van Gogh's Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La Berceuse) (1889)
Early October 2013–June 2014

Camille Pissarro's Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook (1894/95)
Mid-October 2013–late May 2014

Ellsworth Kelly's Tableau Vert (1952)
Mid-November 2014–late February 2015

If there is a particular artwork you're hoping to see on your visit, please check our online collection to make sure it is currently on view.

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