art institute of chicago Archive • Highsnobiety

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Avant-Garde in Everyday Life

Now on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, Avant-Garde in Everyday Life celebrates the work of progressive artists in the design of a wide variety of ephemera during the early decades of the 20th-century. Nearly one century ago, progressive…

Video | Art Institute Installations: Wall Drawing #1111 by Sol LeWitt

Draftsman Takeshi Arita and assistants install Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #1111: Circle with broken bands of color, 2003, in the Art Institute of Chicago‘s Modern Wing, in Griffin Court, for the exhibition Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard…

Everyday Adventures Growing Up: Art from Picture Books

Some of my favorite exhibitions of the last few years have dealt with children’s book illustration. On April 30, 2010, the Art Institute of Chicago launches there take on the subject, Everyday Adventures Growing Up, focuses on elements of visual…

Art Institute of Chicago Expansion

I love a (good) museum expansion project. Over the past few years, Renzo Piano envisioned my absolute favorite, the expansion at the Morgan Library, and begun work on an expansion to the Art Institute of Chicago. The new building creates…

+ View More Posts

Highsnobiety

art institute of chicago

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Avant-Garde in Everyday Life

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Video | Art Institute Installations: Wall Drawing #1111 by Sol LeWitt

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Everyday Adventures Growing Up: Art from Picture Books

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Art Institute of Chicago Expansion