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They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950

They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950
Art Institute of Chicago
Sunday, March 3, 2013–Sunday, June 2, 2013
During the first half of the 20th century, the city of Chicago was shaped and reshaped by waves of migration and immigration as African Americans poured in from the South and newcomers arrived from Europe and Mexico. To celebrate these great migrations, the Art Institute of Chicago has organized the first exhibition to focus on the art produced by the diverse communities that made Chicago their home.

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Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen Art Institute of Chicago October 21, 2012 through January 6, 2013 With the largest collection of work by the artist in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago is proud to present Steve McQueen , the first museum survey devoted to his career. Fourteen of McQueen’s works, including the never-before-seen End Credits […]

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Art Institute of Chicago has commissions Katharina Fritsch for a site-specific, sculptural installation

The Art Institute of Chicago has recently commissioned Katharina Fritsch for a site-specific, sculptural installation. The German artist’s curious cast of characters–oversized versions of a hand, fern fronds, an apple, an egg, a human skull, St. Michael, and a Madonna, among others–will be on display on the Bluhm Family Terrace atop the museum’s Modern Wing through October 28, 2012. These nine brightly colored sculptures, divided up into three distinct groups of works (1. Stilleben/1st Still Life, 3. Stilleben/3rd Still Life, and Apfel/Apple) , were produced between 2009 and 2012. Fritsch’s fastidiously crafted objects–rendered in bronze, copper, plastic, and epoxy–offer visitors an alternative, perhaps unsettling, view of these often iconic forms.

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Parcours

Parcours
Art Institute of Chicago
April 21 – September 9, 2012
Parcours –a French word for “route” or “path”–in the United States designates an educational or exercise trail, a loop marked by sights or gymnastics, always with explanatory texts and often with diagrammatic drawings as well. It is, one could say, an outdoor exhibition circuit for the improvement of one’s mind and body. The Art Institute of Chicago’s own Parcours–a sort of model exhibition and conceptual art project–presents a similarly conceived itinerary indoors and online.

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Karen Kice joins Art Institute’s Department of Architecture and Design as Neville Bryan Assistant Curator

The Art Institute of Chicago announced today the appointment of Karen Kice to the position of Neville Bryan Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Design , effective immediately. Kice will join Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, in building and strengthening the Art Institute’s holdings of contemporary architecture. […]

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Claude Cahun

Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun
Art Institute of Chicago
February 25–June 3, 2012
In the first exhibition devoted to the artist in the United States, Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun explores the prescient and provocative work of French Surrealist Claude Cahun. Born Lucy Schwob to a family of French Jewish intellectuals and writers, Claude Cahun–who adopted the pseudonym at age 22–is best known for the staged self-portraiture, photomontages, and prose texts she made principally between 1920 and 1940.

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Jindřich Heisler

Jindřich Heisler: Surrealism under Pressure
Art Institute of Chicago
March 31, 2012-July 1, 2012
In the first solo retrospective of the artist in the world, the Art Institute explores the rich and concise oeuvre of Czech poet, photographer, and object-maker Jindřich Heisler in Jindřich Heisler: Surrealism under Pressure. Heisler, the child of a mixed-faith marriage, joined the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia in 1938, on the eve of the Nazi dismemberment of his country.

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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Art Institute of Chicago
May 16 to September 3, 2012
Whaam! Bratatat! Varoom! The Art Institute of Chicago explodes this summer with the energy of Roy Lichtenstein in the largest exhibition of the seminal Pop artist to date. More than 160 of Lichtenstein’s works, from the familiar to the completely unexpected, will be on view in the first of only two American venues for Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective. Bringing together never-before-seen drawings, paintings, and sculpture, this exhibition presents the deepest exploration of Lichtenstein’s signature style and its myriad applications across one of the most prolific careers in 20th-century art.

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Fashioning the Object

Fashioning the Object
Art Institute of Chicago
14 April – September 13, 2012
Contemporary fashion over the last 50 years has become increasingly tied to issues surrounding everyday life, fuelled by agendas as diverse as politics, the environment, pop culture, and social reform. Fashion designers, moving beyond traditional presentation methods such as the catwalk show or window displays, have embraced a diversity of methods to push their practice into new arenas.

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Rabindranath Tagore

The Last Harvest: The Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore
Gallery 50
January 29 through April 15, 2012
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a transformative figure in the modern cultural history of India. Remembered primarily as a poet, playwright, musician, and philosopher, he is also recognized around the world as the first non-European recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature, which he received in 1913. Less well known, however, is his visual art, which he began creating in his mid-60s.

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