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APRIL 3—Encounters with Asia: A Conversation with Cai Guo-Qiang
Join us for a conversation + screening with artist Cai Guo-Qiang, whose most famous works include "Sky Ladder" and the fireworks display for the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Spring Break plans? Your picture-perfect Chicago adventure starts at the Art Institute. Kids under 14 are always free!
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Berthe Morisot was the only woman to be exhibited in seven of the eight Impressionist group exhibitions between 1874 and 1886. Her pictorial realm included studies of domestic interiors, women and children, gardens, fields, and seaside homes.
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"Into the Void: Prints of Lee Bontecou" traces the artist's voyage through a series of experiments and happy accidents toward the mystique of her final, definitive images.
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CLOSING SOON—"Tomma Abts"
Experience the powerfully magnetic paintings of Tomma Abts—in the London-based artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States in 10 years.
Closing February 18—https://t.co/d2TOLtHPoF
When winter weather gets you down, a painting like John Twachtman’s "Icebound" can offer solace. Twachtman loved winter for its potential to encourage reflection and regeneration, and he was a strong proponent of the belief that art can ease the hectic lives of urban dwellers.
Complementing his new exhibition "Night Coming Tenderly, Black," artist Dawoud Bey has chosen photographs from the Art Institute’s collection to accompany the show.
See these works outside of the galleries to "Night Coming Tenderly, Black."
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Experience the powerfully magnetic paintings of Tomma Abts, a singularly distinctive artist who transforms two-dimensional canvases into complex illusory spaces—closing February 17.
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NEW ACQUISITION—These two striking creatures are the result of a collaboration between sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet and the stoneware manufactory Emile Muller et Cie. To create these imaginary beasts, Frémiet drew on medieval imagery and his lifelong zoological studies. #NowOnView
Find exquisite Japanese screens from the 17th century on view in the Art Institute’s meditative Ando gallery.