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Every year we grow our collection with works that expand and deepen the stories we tell and the perspectives we share—across geographies, periods and cultures. Enjoy a few highlights of this past year’s additions.
New acquisitions strengthen, broaden, and deepen the stories we can share in our galleries. Here are a few of the past year’s most notable newcomers.
Let your imagination take over on this journey through the Thorne Rooms—miniature and, as generations of Art Institute visitors have found, wonderfully transporting.
What happens when a surrealist makes an addition to another artist’s creation?
Trace the roughly 50-year journey of these elaborate vessels as they traveled from China to France and were extravagantly transformed along the way.
Journey through the long, careful, and beautifully intense process the artist undertakes to transform a tree into an exquisite basket.
Discover what’s in store this season with our quick and easy guide to artist talks, gallery programs, new installations, and other inspired offerings.
This revised and expanded edition of the Essential Guide features more than three hundred objects that span the breadth of the museum’s esteemed collection. Each work is reproduced in full color and discussed in a brief and lively entry.
The first comprehensive study of these rare, influential objects, documenting a formative moment in the noted photographer’s early career
