Art Institute of Chicago

A 21-panel painting over 100 feet wide carries viewers from the nocturnal solitude of the artist's Kashmiri childhood through the frenzy of the Western art world to a fragile, renewed dawn.

Nine rare Saint-Porchaire ceramics of the French Renaissance from a private collection, most on public view for the first time since the late 1800s.

The museum's first exhibition devoted to the artistic traditions of the SWANA region, with more than 70 embroidered works from the 18th through the 20th century.

An immersive installation of new sculptural objects in which the Haitian American artist explores how iron connects us to histories, the material world, and each other.

Photography, drawing and sculpture by 14 self-made artists, most working outside the gallery and museum system, from the Sandor family collection.

The first comprehensive survey of Lee Miller's photographs in more than 25 years, gathering the major episodes of her singular career from Surrealist portraiture to wartime reportage.

The first Art Institute show devoted to Cassatt in over 25 years brings together 70 paintings and works on paper from the late 1880s to the early 1900s, her most ambitious and experimental period.

Karimah Ashadu's 2024 video on the okada motorcycle taxi riders of Lagos and the informal economy around them.

Jill Mulleady's first solo show at a major museum: about 20 paintings in Gallery 289.

More than 40 of the ukiyo-e master Kitagawa Utamaro's most celebrated woodblock designs, all drawn from the Art Institute's own Japanese print collection.

Cokes's first outdoor presentation in Chicago fills the Bluhm Family Terrace with a two-part installation: a billboard viewable from Millennium Park and a freestanding sign, both set to music.

More than 50 objects from the Arts of Africa collection show beliefs and values surrounding the body shared across the continent, and the distinct cultural forms those ideas take.

The first exhibition of Colombian artist Beatriz González's works on paper: more than 80 works from six decades, many shown publicly for the first time.

The museum's 18th-century Neapolitan nativity scene, with more than 200 painted terracotta figures, returns to Gallery 203 for the holidays.

27 prints placing Japan's sōsaku-hanga (creative print) artists among the global postwar avant-garde, from the museum's Asian art and prints collections.

A yearlong photography and media show on seasonal change, with some works rotating in and out as the year turns and others on view throughout.

The first US exhibition on Francisco de Zurbarán in 40 years: about 50 works of the Spanish Golden Age painter from 30 lenders worldwide.