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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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Designing for pig parts | Zoë Ryan | Playing Favorites

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

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

Caillebotte Paris Street Rainy Day 1877
Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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

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

A carved stone tablet with graphic and figurative details.
Aztec Coronation Stone | Art Institute Essentials Tour

1977.938 American Windows
Marc Chagall’s America Windows | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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

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

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Artists

Waterlilies with pink blossoms dot the surface of pond that also reflects nearby trees.
Claude

Monet
A vibrant bar scene with a crowded dance floor and and jubilant drinkers.
Archibald John

Motley Jr.
A figure sits in a colorfully stripedchair facing away from the viewer. Only their head and shoulders are visible as is a black floor. There are no other indications of context; the rest of the composition is undecorated negative space.
Noda Tetsuya
Young African American boy standing in front of a movie theater. He leans on a wooden barricade, wearing sunglasses, a zippered jacket, pants, and white sneakers. He holds a small book in his hands, looking straight at the camera.
Dawoud

Bey
El Greco Square 1
El Greco
Red Hills With Flowers
Georgia

O'Keeffe
Design drawing of a large house with multiple levels.
Tadao

Ando
A painting of a woman holding a birdcage.
Rufino

Tamayo
Weaving with a pattern of alternating rectangles in black, white, gray, and striped orange.
Anni

Albers
A close-up view of a black and red vase showing a central figure looking back over her shoulder at a mirror another figure is holding.
Syriskos

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A male artist with short hair and neatly trimmed beard sits at a drawing board and turns towards the camera, pencil in hand.
From the Frames Lab
There and Not There: Recreating a Kupka Frame

A conservation technician describes the process of replicating a bare-bones frame that typifies how the sum of the parts add to the greatness of the whole.

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