Springtime Happenings

Photo of a teenage girl with brown hair and a young woman with black hair viewing brightly colored Fauvist paintings in a white art gallery.

#1 A New Day to Visit

Have you heard? Beginning March 5, the museum will be open six days a week! With the addition of Wednesdays to our schedule, members can enjoy an additional member-only viewing hour each week, from 10:00 to 11:00.

#2 Fashioning Paper Bouquets

Use collage to explore the form and meaning of artful bouquets and design a paper bouquet of your very own with this Saturday Studio led by Chicago-based artist Magdalena Gabriela Dumitrescu on Saturday, February 22, at 12:00.
#3 A Celebration of Kahlo and Reynolds

On Tuesday, April 22, at 6:00, Luminary are invited to a private viewing of Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds and accompanying reception. This event is exclusive to members of Luminary, and registration is required.
#4 Art-Inspired Creative Writing

Through close looking and generative writing exercises, this multisession course—on Thursdays at 5:30 from February 27 to March 13—investigates the many ways that visual art and writing can enhance one another.

Two gleaming metallic sculptures photographed on a gray ground and background. Each is in the shape of a head wearing a helmet with a stirrup spout, or a loop-shaped protrusion with spigot. The heads have no facial features, only a smooth rounded surface. The left sculpture is a silver color, the right, copper.

#5 Reflections from the Artist

Peruvian artist Ana De Orbegoso joins curator Andrew Hamilton in conversation on Thursday, March 20, at 6:00 to discuss her work and the dynamic understandings that come from putting ancient art in conversation with later traditions. Registration is required.

A photo of a row of life-sized figural sculptures. All but one are white marble; the second from the left is bronze. Each sculpture rests on a wooden palette. The wall behind the sculptures is a deep burgundy.

#6 Music, Myth, and Marble

On Saturday, May 17, at 1:00, experience centuries of mythic storytelling brought to life through the music of Eternal City: Art and Music in Rome performed by Dutch soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg and musician Stephen Alltop, and hear from the Art Institute’s Jeffrey Nigro on the rich histories behind the rarely seen works on view in the landmark exhibition Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection. Registration is required.

Photo shows two light-skinned girls with curly light-brown hair and a boy with slightly darker skin and black hair, each of whom greatly resembles the other, sitting at a table together working on art projects.

#10 Fun with Family and Friends

Mark your calendar for Saturday, May 17! Family Day: Friends and Frenemies invites visitors of all ages to explore creative friendships and rivalries across the collection through a variety of themed art making and activities offered from 11:00 to 3:00

Images: Installation view of Barnett Newman’s The Beginning, 1946. Through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison. © 2025 Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; A collage courtesy of Magda Gabriela Dumitrescu; Frida Kahlo. The Frame (El marco), 1938. Centre Pompidou, State purchase, 1939, JP 929 P (1). © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / ADAGP, Paris. Digital Image © CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY; Ana De Orbegoso’s Neo-Huaco #1 and Neo-Huaco #2 from the series ¿Y qué hacemos con nuestra historia? (So What Do We Do with Our History?). Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allen M. Turner. © 2025 Ana De Orbegoso; The Torlonia Laboratories. Photo by Agostino Osio; David Hammons. African-American Flag, 1990. The Broad Art Foundation. © David Hammons.