Home | The Art Institute of Chicago Welcome to the Art Institute of Chicago, home to a collection of art that spans centuries and the globe—and one of Tripadvisor’s “Best of the Best” US attractions of 2025 We look forward to your visit and invite you to explore our many exhibitions, join one of our free daily tours, or make your own tour of must-see works 111 S
Curatorial Departments - The Art Institute of Chicago The more than 300,000 works in the Art Institute’s expansive collection are overseen by various specialized curatorial divisions, each filled with distinguished curators and researchers nbsp;
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Excavation | The Art Institute of Chicago Excavation, Willem de Kooning’s largest painting up to 1950, exemplifies the artist’s innovative style of expressive brushwork and distinctive organization of space into loose, sliding planes with open contours According to de Kooning, his point of departure was an image of women working in a rice field from Bitter Rice, a 1949 Italian Neorealist film The mobile structure of hooked
Events | The Art Institute of Chicago Events In support of 500 Ways of Looking at Modern, the Art Institute has assembled a wide array of family programs, gallery talks and tours, performances, readings, and lectures as we look at “modern” from the perspective of actors, artists, curators, dancers, museum directors, musicians, poets, and scholars
Mission and History - The Art Institute of Chicago Mission The Art Institute of Chicago shares its singular collections with our city and the world We collect, care for, and interpret works of art across time, cultures, geographies, and identities, centering the vision of artists and makers We recognize that all art is made in a particular context, demanding continual, dynamic reconsideration in the present We are a place of gathering; we
Search | The Art Institute of Chicago Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago Expansive in its timeline and its range of media, this richly illustrated digital publication features more than one hundred works from the Art Institute’s collection of ancient Egyptian art