The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world’s largest, most comprehensive and most loved art museums. Home to the greatest Impressionist collection outside of Paris, the Art Institute also holds work by many of history’s greatest artists; highlights include Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, Henri Matisse’s Bathers by a River, René Magritte’s Time Transfixed, Mary Cassatt’s The Child’s Bath, and many others.
The Art Institute of Chicago also offers visitors a unique collection of works by celebrated artists from Chicago, such as Harry Callahan, H.C. Westermann, Ed Paschke, Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Leon Golub, Julia Fish, and others.
Highlighted Chicago architects include: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jeanne Gang, Dirk Lohan, Bertrand Goldberg, among others.
Contemporary masterpieces are on view in the spectacular Modern Wing.
Travel the globe through galleries devoted to the art of ancient Greece, Japan, Africa, and the Americas. View the much loved miniature Thorne Rooms, and more.
Advance ticket purchase is required for the public. Members do not need tickets.
Image: Francis Picabia, Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic), 1913. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Armand Bartos. © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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For more than 30 years, the Swiss artists Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012) have collaborated on a body of work that transforms the ordinary into something unconventional. Their first collaboration in Zurich in 1979 set the tone for their future works, consisting of a photographic series of doll-scaled scenes where sausages, salami, and other processed meats become the protagonists of various situations and settings, including a car accident, a rug store, and a fashion show. The projects that Fischli/Weiss have made since then are characterized by a quirky sense of humor, a love of poetry, and a fascination for the mundane. Executed in a variety of media, including unfired clay, polyurethane, photography, and video, their works are at once playful and challenging. The artists have unraveled ideas of dualism, dismantling distinctions between high and low art, labor and leisure, fiction and reality, kitsch and beauty, and the banal and the sublime, among others.
\r\n\r\nFischli/Weiss's installation on the Bluhm Family Terrace consists of a single snowman encased in a six-and-a-half-foot-high refrigerated vitrine. The sculpture, which is on view during Chicago's warmer months, creates a paradoxical situation that brings together the snowman—normally only able to exist during the coldest winter days—and the sun-filled terrace. This project is a version of Fischli/Weiss's 1990 Snowman (Schneeskulptur), a snowman outside of a thermic power station in Römerbrücke, Saarbrücken, Germany that utilizes the plant's energy to keep the snowman frozen year round. Fischli/Weiss's Snowman presents a combination of utter simplicity and technical complexity, aiming to confuse heirarchies and values by creating systems doomed to fail.
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