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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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Talks
King Day Virtual Talk: (In)Justice
Jan 20, 2021
2:00–2:45
Member Exclusive
Virtual Member Lecture: Nazca Lines—Outlines as Throughlines in Nazca Art
Jan 26, 2021
5:00–5:45
Talks
Virtual Conversation: Faheem Majeed and Tempestt Hazel
Jan 28, 2021
6:00–7:00
Live Arts
Virtual Studio: Kid Koala—Music To Draw To
Jan 29, 2021
12:00–1:00

Videos

Maxresdefault 1 — 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

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

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

Maxresdefault — 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

Maxresdefault — 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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Artists

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

Gideon — Charles

White

Black-and-white etching of a man and woman, Adam and Eve, nude in the garden of Eden. — Albrecht

Dürer

Red Hills With Flowers — Georgia

O'Keeffe

Zizwezenyanga

Qwabe

Rounded jar with intricate decorations — Ampersand Painter

Black ink drawing of a plant with an inscription in Korean. — Kim Eung-won

Painting of two men in a boat at sea catching herring with a net. The sea is rough and dark. — Winslow

Homer

The cover of a catalog or book. The bottom half is in black and white. Two men wearing hats stand with their back to us, facing a wall covered in maps and images that seems to bend. There are two men near the wall in the distance. Above the wall is a dark blue background. — Ladislav

Sutnar

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A drawing in black on a sepia-toned background of a draped fabric with numerous undulating folds.

New Acquisition
Andrea del Verrocchio’s Drapery Study of a Standing Figure Facing Right, in Profile

A work by one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance becomes the museum’s most significant drawing from the period.

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