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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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Seurat's pointilist masterpiece, showing crowds of Parisians enjoying the day at the Grande Jatte.
Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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

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

A painting looking in the window an old-fashioned diner at night where three customers sit at the counter and a soda jerk bends behind the counter working.
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks | 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

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

Man and woman dancing amidst a crowd of people at the Garage.
Ferrill

Hokusai Great Wave
Hokusai

A print of a young African American person wrapped in a cloth and with their head titled upward and eyes closed. A pink shell floats above the person's head on a bright blue gradient background.
White

El Greco Square 1
El Greco

Red Hills With Flowers
O'Keeffe

Wright Side
Wright

2000.740 Gladys Nilsson
Nilsson

A vessel with water lilies and delicate inscriptions painted by Ah Maxam.
Ah Maxam

E23681 Press
Tawney

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Shelter: It’s Us

Curator Alison Fisher explores how the groundbreaking conception of shelter at the Institute of Design was defined by its focus on essential human needs.

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