Expanded Galleries of African Art and Indian Art of the Americas Open at the Art Institute

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago opens its expanded galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas today, June 3, 2011. Following an extensive four-year planning, construction, and reinstallation project, the combined 7,500 square foot gallery spaces–located in the Art Institute’s lower Morton Wing (G136 and G137) –have now been freshly conceived and completely renovated to accommodate more than 550 objects on display. For the first time in the museum’s history, the majority of the Art Institute’s [...]

Works by “New Topographics” Pioneer on View at the Art Institute

CHICAGO, IL.- 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 [...]