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April 23 - September 11, 2016 - This exhibition presents iconic examples from throughout the 20th century by makers including Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, Harry Bertoia, and Charles and Ray Eames, all of whose work contributed to the evolution of a new, modern ideal. The first episode of the series focuses on a piece of furniture that has captivated the popular imagination like no other: t...

April 18 - May 27, 2016 - Enter the mysterious world of one of nature’s most awe-inspiring marine mammals. Narrated by Ewan McGregor and set in the spectacular waters of Alaska, Hawaii and the remote islands of Tonga, this ocean adventure offers an up-close look at how these whales communicate, sing, feed, play and take care of their young. Join a team of researchers as they unlock the secrets of ...

April 18, 2016 - February 28, 2017 - Exhibit / Brick by Brick - The sensational LEGO® structures and hands-on challenges in Brick by Brick reveal the power of play as a gateway to creating greatness. Spectacular LEGO®-built marvels of engineering will inspire the builder within you in this world-premiere exhibit. Brick by Brick features more than a dozen giant constructions by LEGO® Certified Prof...

April 18 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition, featuring 100 photographs drawn exclusively from the Art Institute’s extensive holdings of Siskind’s work, examines some of his most influential abstract photographs and series. Beginning with Siskind’s new attention to the power of a single object in the 1940s, the presentation continues through formally graphic series such as barely touching rocks in...

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.

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 originally the fa...

April 11 - August 7, 2016 - Comprising approximately 140 works, including selected subjects from Van Dyck’s Iconography, this exhibition features prints from five centuries. The earliest works, by artists such as Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) and Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617), precede Van Dyck’s career, while portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) and Jan Lievens (1607–74), artists who followed V...

April 11 - May 1, 2016 - This exhibition is the first to draw back the curtain on that practice. Featuring over 100 drawings and prints as well as 12 sculptures—many borrowed directly from the artist and never displayed before—the presentation offers an unprecedented look into Puryear’s inspirations, methods, and transformative process. Uniting these rarely seen drawings, several sculptures, and s...

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’s made since. Event held in Galler...

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, surrounded by all his worl...