January 1 - June 25, 2016 - Presenting 13 paintings by South American artists from the 17th through 19th century, this focused exhibition introduces visitors to images promoted by several Catholic orders at work in the Spanish Andes—the Dominicans, Franciscans, Mercedarians, and Jesuits—examining the politics of the distinct iconographies each group developed as they vied for devotees and dom...

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January 15, 2016 - January 1, 2017 - In this exhibition, fifty of the most beautiful are now featured in The Field Museum’s new exhibition Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. The new exhibition is a rich inquiry into the concept of race, which has changed drastically over the past eighty years but is still very much with us today.  Hoffman’s artwor...

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January 30 - August 21, 2016 - The block-print posters Collins used similar in design to posters used for political rallies or boxing matches are included in the exhibition. El Mundo no Escuchará makes visible the wide range of emotions the camera provokes, including embarrassment, failure, honesty, sincerity, self-consciousness, anxiety, and sentimentality. Simultaneously revealing pop cu...

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February 6 - May 1, 2016 - In the first major American exhibition tour, Theo Jansen’s wholly distinctive kinetic creations blur the lines of art, engineering, science and performance. The exhibition celebrates the thrill of the Strandbeests’ locomotion and shows the processes that have driven their evolutionary development. The sculptures are accompanied by artist drawings, videos, dai...

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February 9 - May 29, 2016 - The exhibition offers an immersive new perspective on the show’s most memorable characters, both upstairs and down, while chronicling the great changes taking place in Britain during the tumultuous early 20th century. The award-winning costumes are produced by renowned London costume house Cosprop Ltd. Many use original fabrics and embellishments from the early 20...

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Feburary 16 - July 3, 2106 - To provide a glimpse into her working process, the exhibition also features research materials selected by the artist. They include trade manuals and journals of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as scale models for the some of the finished works.  Hand-constructing the sculptures from a wide range of materials, Simpson cuts, stitches, wraps, folds, ties, and rivets th...

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March 4, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition was organized by The Field Museum in partnership with the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center, and Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum of the People’s Republic of China.  China's First Emperor, Qin Shihuang, planned to spend his afterlife buried in a palatial tomb, sur...

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March 18 - May 7, 2016 - For our second show of 2016, Western Exhibitions unearths a grouping of never-seen-before drawings by Robyn O’Neil.  The “Lost Show” is sandwiched in between two drawings. One is straight from her studio, representing her current direction. The other is a drawing she made in 2000 while in grad school, and it clearly presages everything she&rsquo...

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April 11 - August 28, 2016 - This focused exhibition unites two marbles portraying Antinous—which recent discoveries reveal were originally one. After years of careful study, an international collaboration among the Art Institute of Chicago, the Palazzo Altemps Museum in Rome, and the University of Chicago determined that the Art Institute’s fragment of a portrait of Antinous was origi...

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April 11 - October 10, 2016 - The selections for the intimate Supernatural Shakespeare presentation copy several paintings Fuseli created for the 1790s Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, one of the catalysts for the Romantic revival of Shakespeare in the early 1800s.

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