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Publications
2026
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost
2026
Carroll Dunham: Drawings 1974–2024
Digital2026
Cezanne Paintings and Watercolors at the Art Institute of Chicago
2025
Bruce Goff: Material Worlds
2025
Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art
2025
Ellsworth Kelly: Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance
2025
On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival
2025
Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection
Digital2025
Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
2025
H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker
2025
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men
Digital2025
Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980
2025
Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds
2025
Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection
2025
Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400–1850
2024
Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks”
2024
Paula Modersohn-Becker
2024
Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective
2024
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
2023
David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive
2023
Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan
2023
Canova: Sketching in Clay
Digital2023
Perspectives on Place
2023
Camille Claudel
2023
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
2023
Ellsworth Kelly: Portrait Drawings
2023
Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine
2023
The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media
2023
Lygia Pape: Tecelares
Digital2022
Perspectives on Data
Digital2022
Perspectives on In/stability
2022
Cezanne
2022
Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
2022
Igshaan Adams: Desire Lines
2022
The Language of Beauty in African Art
2021
André Kertész: Postcards from Paris
2021
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
2021
Ray Johnson c/o
Digital2021
Malangatana: Mozambique Modern
Digital2021
The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: The Digital Edition
2020
Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
2020
Bisa Butler: Portraits
Digital2020
Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago
2020
The People Shall Govern! Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Poster, 1979–1985
2020
Monet and Chicago
2020
Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection
2020
El Greco: Ambition and Defiance
2020
Gray Collection: Pure Drawing
2019
Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age
2019
In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury
Digital2019
Matisse Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago
Digital2019
Ivan Albright Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago
2019
Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection
2018
The Age of French Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago
Digital2018
American Silver
Digital2018
Modern Series: Go
2018
John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age
2018
Hairy Who? 1966–1969
2018
Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes
2018
Georg Jensen: Scandinavian Design for Living
2018
Tomma Abts
2018
Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection
2018
Charles White: A Retrospective
2018
Max Lamb: Exercises in Seating
Digital2017
Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago
2017
Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test
2017
Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist
2017
American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago
2017
Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat
2017
Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg
2017
As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History
2017
Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
Digital2016
Modern Series: Shatter Rupture Break
Digital2016
Gauguin Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Works at the Art Institute of Chicago
Digital2016
Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
2016
Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago
2016
America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s
2016
Vanishing Beauty: Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection
2016
Color the Classics: The Art Institute of Chicago
2016
Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War
2016
Van Gogh’s Bedrooms
2016
The Neapolitan Crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago
2016
Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print
2016
Moholy-Nagy Future Present
Digital2015
Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago
Digital2015
Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago
Digital2015
Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions
2015
David Adjaye Form, Heft, Material
2015
Gates of the Lord: The Tradition of Krishna Paintings
2015
Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840
2015
Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions
2015
Edlis | Neeson Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago
2015
Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Digital2014
James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Digital2014
Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago
Digital2014
Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago
2014
What May Come: The Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Mexican Political Print- 2014
Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection 
2014
Sarah Charlesworth: Stills
2014
The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
2014
James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
2013
Picasso and Chicago: 100 Years, 100 Works
2013
Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection
2013
Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
2013
Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine
2013
They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950
2013
Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes”
2013
Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago
2012
Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque
2012
For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago
2012
Jindrich Heisler: Surrealism under Pressure, 1938–1953
2011
Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
2011
Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945
2011
The Judith Neisser Collection: Minimal and Postminimal Innovation- 2011
Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France 
2011
Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
2011
Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection
2011
Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design
2011
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917
2010
Richard Hawkins: Third Mind
2010
Contemporary Collecting: The Donna and Howard Stone Collection
2010
Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico
2010
June Wayne’s Narrative Tapestries: Tidal Waves, DNA, and the Cosmos
2009
Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design
2009
The Marvelous Album of Madame B: Being the Handiwork of a Victorian Lady of Considerable Talent
2009
Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works, 2000–2007
2009
The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago
2009
American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955
2009
Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth
2009
Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago
2008
Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection
2008
European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago
2007
Perpetual Glory: Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection
2007
Mel Bochner: Language 1966–2006
2007
Young Chicago
2006
Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces
2005
Japanese Prints in the Art Institute of Chicago
2005
Eight Great Impressionist and Postimpressionist Paintings
2005
1945: Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era
2005
Paris: Photographs from a Time That Was
2005
Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago
2004
The James VanDerZee Studio
2004
Journey to Cahokia: A Boy’s Visit to the Great Mound City
2004
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
2004
Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte”
2004
Seurat and “La Grande Jatte”
2002
Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–71
2001
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South
2001
2001: Building for Space Travel
2000
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago
1999
Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities
1999
Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection
1997
Telling Images: Stories in Art
1996
The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture
1993
Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection
1966
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 1
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, no. 2 : African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 31, no. 1 : Objects of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 34, no. 2 : Art through the Pages: Library Collections at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 2 : The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 33, no. 2 : The Art of Indonesian Textiles: The E. M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 2 : Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917–65
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, no. 1 : Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, no. 2 : The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 21, no. 2 : The Prairie School: Design Vision for the Midwest
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 16, no. 2
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, no. 2
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 32, no. 2 : Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 1
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22, no. 1 : Asian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, no. 2 : African Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 2 : Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, no. 2 : Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 34, no. 1 : Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17, no. 2
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 1 : Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 4
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18, no. 1: Five Centuries of Japanese Kimono
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 21, no. 1 : Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, no. 1 : An Educated Taste: Neoclassicism at the Art Institute
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 6
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 1 : Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, no. 2
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, no. 1
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, no. 1 : Negotiating History: German Art and the Past
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 9
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 7
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, no. 1 : Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 31, no. 2 : Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 8
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, no. 2 : The “Grande Jatte” at 100
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, no. 2 : Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 13, no. 2
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 13, no. 1
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 10 : The Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, no. 1 : The Architecture of the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, no. 2 : Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22, no. 2 : Mary Reynolds and the Spirit of Surrealism
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, no. 1 : Modern and Contemporary Art: The Lannan Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 3
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, no. 1 : Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17, no. 1 : Italian Drawings at the Art Institute
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, no. 1 : Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 19, no. 1 : One Hundred Years at the Art Institute: A Centennial Celebration
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 35, no. 2 : Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 19, no. 2 : Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago Since 1980
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, no. 2 : Gifts Beyond Measure: Antiquarian Society and European Decorative Arts, 1987–2002
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 32, no. 1 : Notable Acquisitions at The Art Institute of Chicago
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 16, no. 1 : Aspects of Modern Art at the Art Institute
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18, no. 2 : British Art: Recent Acquisitions and Discoveries at the Art Institute
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, no. 1 : Rooted in Chicago: Fifty Years of Textile Design Traditions
2018
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 35, no. 1 : Film, Video, and New Media at the Art Institute of Chicago: With the Donna and Howard Stone Gift
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