Art & Art Institute of Chicago (intersection of tags)
867 Art posts • 122 Art Institute of Chicago posts • 109 in common
- Zooming super-close into a MonetThe Art Institute of Chicago just released a beast of a Monet digital catalog with insanely high res zoom. You can see individual brushstrokes and even photomicrographs of the paint layers.
- I painted a Georgia O’Keeffe on the front of my houseI started repairing hail damage and accidentally created a large-scale exterior art installation.
- Pay phones depicted in artwork in Art Institute of Chicago’s collectionI found an artwork featuring a pay phone in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. That somehow led me to a decades-old webpage listing the museum’s pay phone numbers — and memories of my own pay phone art project from…
- Wrapped computer, unwrapped thoughtsI can’t stop thinking about a Christo print of a wrapped computer. It’s high-tech (for 1985), completely unusable, and somehow full of care.
- Mondrian’s double vision: A lesson in not limiting yourselfWell, I completely botched this blog post. Yeah, that's the actual summary. I'm keeping it up, because it's hilarious how badly wrong I got it.
- The Phantom Banksy at the Art Institute of ChicagoThe Art Institute doesn't own any Banksy works, but their search engine created the next best thing—accidental connections between street art, ancient sculptures, and Impressionism. See how Bankoni, Monet, and Bakst became honorary Banksy works.
- Why does this fisherman look so annoyed? A curious London Train posterA train ride to nature should be relaxing, right? Not for this fisherman, who looks ready to cast us out instead of a line. What’s going on here?
- When art meets aquariumThat time I turned goldfish-sitting into an art experiment: A fish swimming through rainy Paris streets and contemplating Japanese prints.
- Walmart turns Jeff Koons’ $14,500 art into a $10 party decorationFound at the Art Institute shop: $11,500 Jeff Koons balloon dog sculptures. Found at Walmart: The same thing for $10. The art world is wild y'all.
- The most unrelevant painting in the Art Institute of ChicagoIn a collection of 927 paintings, there’s always one that lands dead last. For the Art Institute of Chicago, it’s The Sand Pits, Hampstead Heath by John Linnell. The least relevant—or quietly profound? Decide for yourself.
- Are the birds on this cabinet doves or hoopoes?Decoding a bird motif on an Arts and Crafts cabinet in the Art Institute of Chicago
- Interpreting sidewalk patterns on U of I’s Quad through a modernist perspectiveU of I Quad looks like a Kazimir Malevich
- Adorable sculptures whisper from museum cornersA ceramic hippo looking despondent. A tiny figure side-eyeing centuries of art. These are the museum treasures we need to see. Little Guys Tour: coming soon to an exhibit near you.
- Is that Mary riding a reindeer?I was stumped by this sculpture until AI shed light on its symbolism. Learn how AI can enhance your art appreciation.
- Ancient Egyptian funeral shroud kinda looks like Tron’s master villain MCPStumbled upon a striking visual parallel: an Ancient Egyptian funeral shroud & the Master Control Program from 'Tron'. Both showcase faces at their core but are centuries apart in creation. One rooted in the past, the other in digital dystopia.
- St. John the Baptist’s tooth is at the Art Institute of ChicagoHow to use BlueSky to discover wacky artworks in a museum's collection
- Personalized tracking system for artworks in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collectionImagine having a bullet list of your favorite artworks at the Art Institute, ready for your next visit. Plus, get alerts on display changes. I might actually be able to write a program that does this.
- Sending mail art to an art museumThe Art Institute of Chicago is welcoming people to send them mail art in the form of postcards. If you were to send some mail art to the Art Institute, what would you send?
- Large photograms by János MegyikTransforming large sculptures into two-dimensional photograms.
- Georgia O’Keeffe wrapped on a NASCAR — you might be aghast, but here’s why it could workNASCAR is teaming up with the Art Institute of Chicago to create a Georgia O’Keeffe-wrapped pace car at the 2024 Chicago Auto Show.
- Discover the Thorne Miniature Rooms in a browserTransform each new tab into a journey through the Thorne Miniature Rooms with my modified version of the Art Institute of Chicago's Chrome extension.
- Exploring timeless creativity: A peek at Peru’s Paracas cultureDid you know? The same culture that crafted adorable pottery also sketched epic geoglyphs viewable from the skies!
- Flowers in hommage of Brice MardenUsing artificial intelligence to make a painting in honor of abstract painter Brice Marden
- Staffordshire Pottery Houses in a major art museumIf you ever wanted to own artwork from a major museum for just $51, here's your chance.
- 19th century chair as a TransformerI might have gone too far. I have come up with three different Transformer names for this 19th century armchair in the Art Institute’s collection.
- Rough pigs by Charles Émile JacqueThe roughness of how these pigs are drawn seems to be more accurate for how they are in real life.
- That random piece of art history would make a great coloring pageYou can be the person who loves to color random artwork that was never meant to be colored.
- Sailing from a quiet to violent seascapeSo quiet. The exhaust from one tiny ship pulling a grand sailboat. The exhaust floats into the sky like the larger clouds. Then...
- Japanese falling leavesFalling leaves like Japanese characters read downward vertically on a page.
- Velvet giving illusion of depthCrawling up into the nooks and crannies of a fabric scrap.
- Comparing the cost of an Art Institute of Chicago membershipLet's get into the math of buying regular tickets at the ticket window versus getting an annual membership.
