Tag: Art Institute of Chicago

The 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 started repairing hail damage and accidentally created a large-scale exterior art installation.

I 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…

I 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.

Well, 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.

What happens when your kids start sorting their Halloween candy, and it turns into something that looks like a Paul Klee painting? This year, our post-trick-or-treat candy sort turned unexpectedly artistic.

Stumbled 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.

The 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.

A 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?

Whenever a potato appears in famous fine art, it’s always a surprise and a delight—especially when you’ve been tracking potato art for years. After all, my blog is named Spudart. I’ve used the Spudart name for 28 years since 1997.…

That time I turned goldfish-sitting into an art experiment: A fish swimming through rainy Paris streets and contemplating Japanese prints.

With every new Chrome tab—boom, art appears. Today? A Sol LeWitt print. But am I seeing a LeWitt? Or just a trace of his idea?

How does a brand-new artwork get into a museum? This 1962 print by Robert W. Mallary was added to @artinstitutechi’s collection almost instantly. What’s getting added today?

Found 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.

In 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.

Decoding a bird motif on an Arts and Crafts cabinet in the Art Institute of Chicago

U of I Quad looks like a Kazimir Malevich

I've long wanted to see an artist from Etsy to get a solo show in a major art museum. Someone who really started grassroots and built up their work among the common platforms like Etsy and eBay.

Our Art Institute of Chicago lion is out and ready to guard the holidays on our porch! Feels like we’re living in an art museum.

A 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.

I was stumped by this sculpture until AI shed light on its symbolism. Learn how AI can enhance your art appreciation.

A timeless desk perfect for modern tech

Stumbled 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.

How to use BlueSky to discover wacky artworks in a museum's collection

Imagine 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.

Almost every day I load up around 100 tabs in my browser. One of the tabs is a search on Twitter for the phrase “Art Institute of Chicago“. Today this search showed this fun tweet of a couple sculptures with…

The 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?

Transforming large sculptures into two-dimensional photograms.

NASCAR is teaming up with the Art Institute of Chicago to create a Georgia O’Keeffe-wrapped pace car at the 2024 Chicago Auto Show.

Transform each new tab into a journey through the Thorne Miniature Rooms with my modified version of the Art Institute of Chicago's Chrome extension.

What's up with this "Fragment of a Sampler" from 1669?