Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico
Art Institute of Chicago
September 16, 2010 – January 2, 2011
On September 16, 2010, Mexico will commemorate the bicentennial of its independence from Spain and the centennial of the 1910 Revolution that led to the formation of its modern republic. In recognition of these significant anniversaries, the Art Institute of Chicago joins dozens of other cultural organizations around Chicago to participate in the citywide celebration Mexico 2010.

Jitish Kallat: Public Notice 3
Art Institute of Chicago
September 11, 2010 – January 2, 2011
This fall, acclaimed contemporary artist Jitish Kallat turns the landmark Art Institute Grand Staircase into a meditation on religious tolerance, drawing on the museum’s own history in concert with the most devastating terrorist attack on American soil. Public Notice 3 , a site-specific installation, brings together two key historical moments: the first Parliament of the World’s Religions, opening on September 11, 1893, in what is now the museum’s Fullerton Hall, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 108 years later, on that very date. Public Notice 3–the first major presentation of Kallat’s work in an American museum–will be on view September 11, 2010 through January 2, 2011.

Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
September 25, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Over the past 45 years, Richard Gray, one of America’s foremost modern and contemporary art dealers, and his wife, art historian and author Mary Lackritz Gray, have gathered a remarkable collection representing seven centuries of creativity. On September 25, 2010, the Art Institute of Chicago will present the first-ever exhibition of their collection. Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, on view through January 2, 2011, in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Wing (Galleries 124-127) of the museum, features 121 works from the 15th through the 21st centuries–from Francesco Salviati through Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney–and includes a generous promised gift of nine works to the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings.

Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection
Art Institute of Chicago
June 25 – September 19, 2010
The Art Institute of Chicago announces a landmark presentation of one of the country’s leading private collections of contemporary art, Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, on view June 25 through September 19, 2010 , in the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries and in the eponymous Stone Film, Video, and New Media Gallery.

Looking After Louis Sullivan: Photographs, Drawings, and Fragments
Art Institute of Chicago
June 19 – December 12, 2010
The Art Institute of Chicago, home of one of the most comprehensive architecture archives and photography collections in the United States, has organized an innovative exhibition that explores the work of Louis Sullivan through the lenses of legendary photographers John Szarkowski, Aaron Siskind, and Richard Nickel .