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The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, includes works such as Georges Seurat 's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte , Pablo Picasso 's The Old Guitarist , Edward Hopper 's Nighthawks , and Grant Wood 's American Gothic .
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
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The Renaissance Society was founded in the wake of the Armory Show of 1913 at the Art Institute, which had travelled to Chicago after its contentious time in New York. Then called the International Exhibition of Modern Art, the show was met with outrage and incomprehension in New York, leading to a similarly fervent uproar when it traveled to Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago opened as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts on May 24, 1879, and changed to its current name on December 23, 1882. [5] It was originally established as both a school and museum, and stood on the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street, [6] where it rented space. [7]
Ten months later, they're exhibiting some of the artwork at Chicago's Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, bringing it to North America for the first time. Nataliia doesn't speak English, but her ...
The Chicago Cultural Center underwent an extensive [4] renovation during 2021–2022 [5] with the goal of unearthing the original beauty of the building. The detailed restoration of the art glass dome and decorative finishes in the Grand Army of the Republic rooms, a Civil War memorial, was made possible by a grant of services valued at over $15 million to the City of Chicago.
CHICAGO – On weekend nights, off Western Avenue in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, on a street so thin it appears squeezed alongside the elevated 606 trail, a curious thing happens: The ...