Art Institute of Chicago & Chicago (intersection of tags)
122 Art Institute of Chicago posts • 930 Chicago posts • 57 in common
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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.
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Finding a newspaper comic in a fine art museumStumbled across a 1995 Curtis comic strip in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection. Now I'm emailing them asking if they'd ever do a full comic strip exhibit. Someone on Bluesky dared me to ask, so here we are.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Cool baseball hats for the Art Institute of ChicagoDoes the Art Institute of Chicago have any cool baseball hats?
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16th century Switzerland textiles that look like bitmap artIt is my greatest desire that some video game midi music play in the background while this is displayed. Are there other examples of 16th century Switzerland textiles with bitmap art? I’m googling: Switzerland 16th century textile Google is not…
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The contemplative skulls of El GrecoNeed a moment to quiet your busy life and meditate on your mortality? Meditate on some skulls. Do you love skulls? Then you’ll love the El Greco exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Do you find skulls creepy? You’ll…
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Art Institute’s Art Tab highlights from February 2020Here are 28 of my favorite artworks displayed in February 2020 from the Art Tab Chrome extension. Every time you open a new browser tab, you get a different work of art from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. Tribune…
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Drawing as thinkingA couple weeks ago I started a project where on my lunch break, I go the Art Institute of Chicago, stand in front of an artwork, and sketch it. I set out with this project to help improve my drawing…
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The third guardian lion at the Art Institute of ChicagoAnother Guardian Lion‽ A pair of famous lions guard the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. Inside the museum resides another guardian lion. This unknown distant cousin comes from Cambodia. It currently sits guard at the entrance to one…
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Fun security guards at art museumsEver come across a fun or interesting security guard at an art museum? Here’s my encounter with a security guard at the Art Institute of Chicago sharing her love of tiny details of paintings, encouraging visitors to get closer to…
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Warhol wallAndy Warhol. The art world darling. The Art Institute of Chicago is putting on a big Warhol show. Members get a special preview during October 17-19, 2019. Can’t get into the members preview of the Warhol show? Get a cool…
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Capturing sharp details from drawings in an art museumThe collection of 17th century Dutch and Flemish drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago is a nice display of work. Especially impressive is the large sign at the front of the exhibit. The Art Institute blew up a 6-inch…
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Art on walls, or in handsWhat is the utility of hanging a drawing on a wall? How often do people change their wall decorations? Do people today continue to buy images to hang on their walls? Should a drawing instead be viewed with one’s hands?…
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Multiple toes: photographs of statue feet with kaleidoscope lensWhile photographing the feet of a sculpture of two naked men wrestling, at the Art Institute of Chicago, a guard stopped me. She asked what the clip was on my camera. I walked over to her, and showed her how…
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Using a kaleidoscope lens at an art museumBring a cheap kaleidoscope lens with you to an art museum, and you’ll be guaranteed to have an ever-changing wonderful time. You can get one for $26 on Amazon (and you’ll also get a whole array of other fun lenses).…
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Where is the closest art in proximity to you?While I was walking through the Art Institute of Chicago today, I was thinking about how this artwork is the artwork that I have the most immediate physical access to. I work two blocks north from this grand museum. If…
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Degas in 360-degree stitched photoStand right in front of a Degas pastel drawing, and try photographing a 360-degree photograph with multiple-stitching. You get some fun results with how the application auto-stitches the exposures together. Normally, 360-degree panorama apps like this are meant to photograph…
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Making famous art into playable tiles in the museum storeCan Jackson Pollock paintings be displayed any which way? Upside-down, sideways? Sure, why not? Especially when the paintings are reproduced into two-inch magnets. The Art Institute of Chicago takes some of their most famous art, reprints it into tiny two-inch…
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A bookshelf with hundreds of books that you cannot touchA floor-to-ceiling shelf holding hundreds of books. Makes a beautiful backdrop. But you can’t read the books. You can’t even touch them. It’s a work of art. Oooook. I need to investigate this artwork further. During lunch I breezed through…
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The first artwork the Art Institute acquired in 1999The candy pile is the first artwork the Art Institute acquired in 1999. It has the reference number of 1.1999. I googled all the other years from 1879 to 2018. Yup, that’s 139 Google searches. Google totally DID NOT like…
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When you want to go to the art museum, but have to grocery shopping insteadWant to visit the Art Institute of Chicago?—but wait—you are out of yogurt. That’s the dilemma I found myself in this afternoon. I wanted to visit some fine art, but I was out of fine yogurt. Perhaps one can survive…
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Merging a John Singer Sargent painting with the Chicago BeanThe John Singer Sargent exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is closing this weekend. Thankfully my brother informed me of that this morning. Now that I work within walking distance of the Art Institute, I wanted to take full…
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Kirk Vuillemot, the Art Institute’s framemakerFrame conservation. Picking the right frame to match artwork from centuries ago. The Art Institute of Chicago has an employee with the title of Assistant Conservator for Preparation and Framing. Kirk Vuillemot has been restoring and creating frames for the…
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Star Wars meets the Art Institute of ChicagoTwo monumental cultural events are about to happen in the same week: Star Wars is releasing episode VII: The Force Awakens The Art Institute is about to exhibit their largest donation of artwork ever. 44 monumental modern artworks were donated…
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The 11 napkins in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collectionThe fine art of napkins. Art that you can wipe your mouth with. The Art Institute currently has 11 napkins in their permanent collection. The height of the napkin collecting craze occured from 1983 to 1996. Nine of the eleven…
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Get inside the artwork at the Art Institute of Chicago #GetInsideTheArtInstituteofChicagoEver want to get inside the artwork at an art museum? Now you can! Several people on Instagram and Flickr have demonstrate how they interact with artworks in museums. These seven methods are collected under the hashtag, #GetInsideTheArtInstituteofChicago. A clever…
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4,715 artworks currently on display at the Art Institute of ChicagoTwo years ago the Art Institute of Chicago had 3,976 artworks on display. Now they have 4,715 on display. The Art Institute has a great website that shows their entire collection. You can even search for which artworks are on…
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Goal: Have one of my artworks officially on display in a major art museumThe opportunity: The Art Institute of Chicago was asking for “surrealist objects” last week as a promotion for the current Magritte exhibit. The objects will be selected by the curator of the Magritte show and will be displayed in the…
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Secrets behind origin of Wrigley Building design revealed by mythical artistMany of Chicago’s iconic buildings are white today, because of an unknown artist working today. This artist has managed to keep his identity relatively unknown for the past hundreds of years. He’s also managed to stay alive for the past…
