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Kings, Queens, and Courtiers at Art Institute of Chicago

Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France
Art Institute of Chicago
February 27–May 30, 2011
The extraordinary quality and dynamism of the visual arts in France at the dawn of the Renaissance receives the royal treatment this winter at the Art Institute of Chicago. Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France–on view February 27 through May 30, 2011 , in the museum’s Regenstein Hall –is the first exhibition in the United States to be devoted to this fascinating period in French art, when late Gothic exuberance encountered the energy and harmony of the Italian Renaissance.

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The Judith Neisser Collection at Art Institute of Chicago

Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection
Art Institute of Chicago
February 13 – May 22, 2011
The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to present Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection–the first-ever public exhibition of works from Chicago collector Judith Neisser’s outstanding private collection. Rooted in the 1960s and 1970s but continuing through today’s most contemporary works, this second installment of the series features 79 Minimal and Conceptual works by artists ranging from Blinky Palermo and Robert Ryman to Eva Hesse and Roni Horn. On view in the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries (G 182-184) from February 13 through May 22, 2011 , the exhibition brings these works to the public for the first time and also celebrates major gifts to the Art Institute from Judith Neisser and the Neisser family.

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American Modern at Art Institute of Chicago

American Modern
Art Institute of Chicago
February 5 – May 15, 2011
A special exhibition that explores the evolution of documentary images through the work of three of the foremost photographers of the 20th century will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from February 5 through May 15, 2011.

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Elizabeth Hurley: Vice President for Development at Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce the appointment of Elizabeth Hurley as the museum’s new Vice President for Development, effective February 14, 2011. In this capacity, Hurley will assume responsibility for overseeing all aspects of the museum’s fundraising goals–including the Annual Fund, major gifts, planned giving, institutional giving, and development operations.

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John Marin at Art Institute of Chicago

John Marin‘s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism
Art Institute of Chicago
January 23 through April 17, 2011
In 1948, a nationwide survey pronounced John Marin (1870-1953) “America’s Number 1 artist.” Marin’s exuberant and improvisational paintings are recognized today as critical to the evolution of American modernism. Less well known, though, is the extent to which Marin pushed the limits of the watercolor medium, establishing for a new generation of artists its inherent suitability to avant-garde expression. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized a major exhibition that is the first to explore this idea through close technical analysis of the artist’s watercolor practice: John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, which will be on view in the museum’s Jean and Steven Goldman Prints and Drawings Galleries in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Wing (Galleries 124-127) from January 23 through April 17, 2011.

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Marc Chagall’s America Windows at Art Institute of Chicago (USA)

After a five-year absence, the Art Institute of Chicago will reinstall one of the most beloved treasures in the museum’s collection, Marc Chagall’s America Windows. Following an intensive period of research and conservation treatment, the America Windows return to public view on November 1, 2010 , as the stunning centerpiece of a new presentation of public art in Chicago on the east side of the museum’s Arthur Rubloff building (Gallery 144).

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Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design at Art Institute of Chicago (USA)

Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design
Art Institute of Chicago
December 11, 2010 – July 20, 2011
Modern architecture and design were long viewed as separate disciplines until practitioners in the mid-20th century began crossing boundaries and rethinking form and function. This fluid exchange of ideas has led to innovative solutions addressing issues at the heart of contemporary life–ones that impact the environment, sustainability, technology, politics, personal well-being, and health and safety.

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Lewis Baltz at Art Institute of Chicago (USA)

Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit
Art Institute of Chicago
September 25, 2010-January 9, 2011
Lewis Baltz (b.1945) is one of the most prominent representatives of the “New Topographics” movement, which changed the direction of American photography in the 1970s and has had a formative impact on every generation since. However, Baltz’s innovations began already in the 1960s. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized the first survey ever of Lewis Baltz’s inaugural body of work, the Prototypes (c. 1967-1973). The exhibition also puts on view for the first time in 12 years Ronde de Nuit, a monumental work of the early 1990s.

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Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico at Art Institute of Chicago (USA)

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.

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Jitish Kallat at Art Institute of Chicago (USA)

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.

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Contemporary Collecting (Chicago, USA)

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.

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