The Art Institute of Chicago is a world-renowned art museum housing one of the largest permanent collections in the United States. An encyclopedic museum, the Art Institute collects, preserves, and displays works in every medium from all cultures and historical periods. The museum also hosts special exhibitions, with recent highlights including Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007, Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns: Gray, and The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece. With a collection of more than 260,000 art works and artifacts, the museum has particularly strong holdings in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, early 20th century European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, Japanese prints, and photography. The museum just completed the largest expansion in its 130-year history, the internationally acclaimed Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano. The Modern Wing features the latest in green museum technology and 264,000 square feet dedicated to modern and contemporary art, photography, architecture and design, and new museum education facilities.
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The Art Institute offers all kinds of programming in addition to exhibitions—concerts, performances, and artist talks, to name a few. Check out our
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