Art Museums
Art Insitute of Chicago
Chicago Cultural Center
Elmhurst Art Museum
Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography
National Museum of Mexican Art
National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
Racine Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art
Society of Contemporary Art (Art Institute of Chicago)
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
The Ukrainiam Institute of Modern Art
Art Institute of Chicago
11 South Michigan Avenue
www.artic.edu
Hours
Monday–Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday, 10:30 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Friday, 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Adults: $12
Children, Students, and Seniors (65 and up): $7
Children under 12 are free
Members are always free
Modern Wing
Image courtesy of Charles G. Young, Interactive Design Architects
About the Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago is a world-renowned art museum housing the third largest permanent collection in the United States. As an encyclopedic museum, the Art Institute collects, preserves, and displays works in every medium from all cultures and historical periods. Founded in 1879, the museum is currently undergoing the largest expansion in its history with the addition of the Modern Wing, designed by Renzo Piano for the Art Institute's modern and contemporary collections, which is scheduled to open on May 16, 2009.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917
Through June 20
This ground-breaking exhibition provides the first sustained examination of a crucial period in Matisse’s creative production—the years in which he labored over the Art Institute’s monumental Bathers by a River. Through new historical, technical, and scientific research and 125 of his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works, the exhibition provides a completely new understanding of a seemingly familiar career.
Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington Street
www.chicagoculturalcenter.org
QiuXiaofei_Pagoda_2008 courtesy of Chinablue
Monday - Thursday: 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Christine Tarkowski: Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last Chicago Rooms
Through May 3
In her largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date, Christine Tarkowski continues to analyze the systems of belief that pervade and shape our lives. From large-scale cast iron sculptures that examine the ascent and descent of the automobile to modest etchings of satellites in orbit, her recent work highlights rituals performed in a void. Tarkowski even constructs her own faith-based system for non-existent congregants with a concrete geodesic dome serving as a place of worship and an alt-gospel soundtrack by Jon Langford.
Elmhurst Art Museum
150 Cottage Hill Ave
Elmhurst, IL 60126
www.elmhurstartmuseum.org
Hours
Closed Monday;
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesdays, 1 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Fridays and Sundays, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
The Museum is open FREE to the public on Tuesday
Adults $4; Seniors $3; Students $2
Children under 12 and Members FREE
About the Elmhurst Art Museum
Exhibiting late 20th Century American Art, EAM offers exhibitions ranging from national touring works to local emerging and mid-career Chicago and Illinois artists. The AIA award winning building was designed around McCormick House, one of the only three Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed residences. Fifteen miles west of Chicago and adjacent to the Metra West train line, the Museum offers public tours, programs, guest lectures and art classes.
Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
100 W. Randolph, Suite 2-100
www.museum.state.il.us/sites/chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
www.mcachicago.org
Hours
Monday - Closed
Tuesday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Admission Prices Suggested General Admission $12
Students with ID and Senior Citizens $7
MCA Members, children 12 and under, and members of the military (Tuesdays are free, courtesy of Target)
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out
Through May 30
Throughout art history, artists have reflexively looked at the very site where art work is produced–the studio–as a source of inspiration for their work. Production Site reexamines the artist's studio as subject, presenting work that documents, depicts, reconstructs, or otherwise invokes that space, revealing how the studio functions as a place where research, experimentation, production, and social activity intersect.
Rewind: Selected works from the MCA Collection, 1970s to 1990s
Through September 5
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history of contemporary art. These exhibitions have, in turn, stimulated the museum and its supporters to acquire important and often numerous pieces by these artists. A resulting hallmark of the MCA's collection is the presence of significant, in-depth bodies of work by artists. Rewind: Selected works from the MCA Collection, 1970s to 1990s will focus on artists from these particular decades to show how the groundbreaking work from the recent past is only now becoming historicized for its critical take on art institutions, identity politics, and new approaches to video and photography in the late-20th century.
Special Event: MCA First Fridays
May 7, 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.
The first museum after-hours party in the nation is still going strong. Attend an “Inside-Out”- themed event in honor of Production Site. Tickets at the door are $16 or $8 for MCA members. Advance tickets are available for $11 ($8 for MCA members). Order your tickets online at mcachicago.org or call the MCA box office at 312.397.4010. Guests must be 21 or older to enter.
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 South Michigan Ave
www.mocp.org
Hours
Mon – Fri: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thu: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sun: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Through June 20 Back to the Top
Geissler/Sann: the real estate
Through May 23
While appearing to exist between reality and illusion, Sarah Pickering’s images are actually documents of simulation. The exhibition presents work from four recent series of the photographer’s work spanning from 2002 to the present: Explosions, Fire Scene, Incident, and Public Order. The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) is the only museum in the Midwest with an exclusive commitment to the medium of photography. mocp@colum.edu. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sunday, 12 - 5 p.m.
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 West 19th Street
312.738.1503, www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org
The National Museum of Mexican Art’s Permanent Collection contains over 6,000 objects, and is one of the largest collections of Mexican art in the nation.
Museum Hours
Tue – Sun, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Free
National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
1801 South Indiana Avenue
www.nvvam.org
Hours
Tue - Fri: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sat : 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum inspires greater understanding of the real impact of war with a focus on Vietnam. The museum collects, preserves and exhibits art inspired by combat and created by veterans.
Racine Art Museum
441 Main Street
Racine, Wisconsin 53403
www.ramart.org
The Racine Art Museum is one of North America's most significant contemporary craft museums, with more than 3,500 objects in the permanent collection. Its focus is on work from internationally recognized artists in ceramics, fibers, glass, metals and wood, as well as painting, sculpture and works on paper.
Smart Museum of Art
University of Chicago
5550 South Greenwood Avenue
www.smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
September 8 - May 2
During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time. He produced several thousand works in this short period, mostly of highly stylized landscapes. Although he titled his drawings after specific locations from around the globe, Yoakum was less concerned with their likeness to the physical sites than with the feelings they evoked—a process he referred to as “spiritual unfoldment.” This compelling exhibition features works from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection, and is paired with a related presentation of works by the Chicago Imagists, many of whom were Yoakum’s friends and profoundly inspired by his art.
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900
Through June 13
Paris in the 1800s was the city of light, and Impressionism captured the bustle of its lively streets and cafés. But through the medium of prints, artists like Whistler, Zorn, Meryon and others probed the social and psychological depths of the period. The inherently discrete method of storing prints between the covers of portfolios—which were then typically kept in the privacy of a study room or cabinet—freed artists to explore subject matter that ranged from the prurient to the exotic. While unsuitable for more public display, such prints were avidly collected. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, this exhibition presents over one hundred of these beautiful, often startling works—primarily prints, but also illustrated books, drawings, and small sculptures—within the milieu of a nineteenth-century art collector’s study.
Society of Contemporary Art (Art Institute of Chicago)
312.443.3630, www.scaaic.org
About the Society for Contemporary Art
The Society for Contemporary Art (SCA) was founded at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940 to promote a better understanding and appreciation of the art of our time.
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
610 South Michigan Avenue
www.spertus.edu
Spertus Façade, Courtesy of Spertus Unstitute
Ground Level Projects
Through June 27
A site-specific installation by Jan Tichy animates the street level vestibule of Spertus Institute's award-winning building. Visit the website for a calendar of programs, events, and opportunities to view Spertus collections.
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 West Chicago Avenue
www.uima-art.org
