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The museum’s galleries are continually changing as newly acquired works and loaned objects join our spaces and expand the perspectives and stories that we share.

It’s easy to have a first reaction to a work of art. But what is revealed when we ask ourselves not only what we find beautiful or ugly, but also where those ideas come from?

Hundreds of artworks entered the museum’s collection last year, each one broadening and deepening the stories we can share. Get to know some of our most notable new works below.

Cities—centers of human activity, growth, and creativity—have long incited imaginative responses from artists across time and place.

The artist shares the thinking, questioning, and experiences that take shape in her Art Institute installation, Unsewn Time.

Artist Jitish Kallat reflects on his piece Public Notice 3 as it returns to the storied Woman’s Board Grand Staircase and how its meaning has evolved in the 14 years since its debut.

On its journey to the Art Institute, Adams’s massive floor work—a woven map of the lived experience and physical terrain of his South African hometown—grew out of Cape Town and returned to it.

Curator Hendrik Folkerts and Igshaan Adams, the multidisciplinary artist from Cape Town, discuss the artist’s expansive and radical approach to weaving as a medium and as a practice.