Explore our wide-ranging exhibitions along with a variety of virtual and on-site programs.
Join architects Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood for a presentation of recent projects by AD–WO and conversation with visual artist Dawit L. Petros.
Join Emerson Bowyer, Searle Curator in Painting and Sculpture of Europe, and Lisa Ayla Çakmak, Chair and Curator of Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium, for a conversation about Antonio Canova’s complex relationship with the art of antiquity.
Join museum educator Jeff Nigro for a close look at our iconic crèche, or Nativity scene, which includes not only the Holy Family but angels, the Three Wise Men, shepherds and their flocks, livestock, musicians, dancers, peddlers, and many others.
Join associate curator Grace Deveney and artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed for a discussion of her exhibition Unsewn Time.
Join Tlingit artist James Johnson and Andrew Hamilton, associate curator of Arts of the Americas, as they discuss Johnson’s work as an award-winning woodcarver and formline painter and how it informs his recent design collaborations with Lib Tech snowboards and Vans.
Stop by Gallery 261 for an opportunity to meet artist James Johnson and join a conversation on Tlingit carving traditions.
Join Marielle Epstein, assistant director of Interpretation, to explore how Caravaggio’s ethos resonate in the work of contemporary nightclub photographers.
Following a discussion with composer Jake Heggie and Camille Claudel curator Emerson Bowyer, renowned mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato performs Heggie’s 35-minute song cycle Camille Claudel: Into the Fire with the Brentano Quartet.
Join Emerson Bowyer, Searle Curator in Painting and Sculpture of Europe; Haddon Dine, Assistant Conservator, Objects and Textiles; and Clara Granzotto, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Conservation Scientist, as they discuss the challenge of conserving Camille Claudel’s remarkable and innovative creations and explore new technical and scientific research into her work.
Join Emily Ziemba, director of curatorial administration and research curator for Prints and Drawings, for an exploration of how Chicago donors built the Art Institute’s preeminent Picasso collection.
