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Located in downtown Chicago, the Art Institute is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe.

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Bisa Butler: Portraits | Exhibition Stories

Nightlife
Archibald John Motley Jr.’s Nightlife | Art Institute Essentials Tour

Cybele Titlecard
Finding meaning in a medieval reliquary | Cybele Tom | Playing Favorites

Buddha Shakyamuni Seated In Meditation
Buddha Shakyamuni | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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Art that expresses the inner world | Costa Petridis | Playing Favorites

Joan Mitchell City Landscape Master
Joan Mitchell’s City Landscape | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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Rembrandt and the desire for human connection | Sam Ramos | Playing Favorites

A carved and subtly colored wooden sculpture of a seated man wearing an elaborate headdress. A larger woman stands behind him and two much smaller figures at his feet.
Olowe of Ise’s Veranda Post | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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Art you can’t hold in your hands | Jordan Carter | Playing Favorites

Van Gogh Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh’s The Bedroom | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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A vibrant quilt depicting seven schoolchildren dressed in many different colors. The children stand together in a group, and one boy, a member of the Safety Patrol, stands in front with his arms outstretched in a protective gesture.
Bisa

Butler
Green water lilies with pink and purple flowers cover the surface of a reflective pond. A Japense-style wood bridge curves over the pond, and various other trees and forms of vegetation grow alongside the pond and over the bridge. Reflections of trees and plants mingle with the forms of the water lilies on the surface of the pond.
Claude

Monet
Zizwezenyanga

Qwabe
Blackstone, Woodlawn/Chicago
Darryl

Cowherd
Faceted Round Jar
Lee

In-chin
The Creation of Adam
Giovanni Benedetto

Castiglione
Time Transfixed
René

Magritte
19842 Architectural Relief Depicting The Gigantomachy
Ancient Etruscan
Woman Before The Mirror
Ellen Emmet

Rand
Sketch of a long building, low to the ground.
Ludwig

Mies van der Rohe

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Art and Hip Hop: Profound Parallels

Sam Ramos finds rich connections between the work of visual artist Kerry James Marshall and the music of Childish Gambino.

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