Exhibitions in Chicago

August 2025

August 2025 at a glance: 1 exhibition opened, 0 closed, and 2 more were on view across the city.

A section of a museum exhibition, with large cut-outs of trees and plants, and specimens in display cases.

Museum exhibitions featuring two scientists. On the left is a desk and bookshelves, with multimedia panels. On the right, a large video screen and a canoe.

Detail of a panel from Raqib Shaw's monumental painting Paradise Lost

Opened in August

After the Age of Dinosaurs29 Aug
Field Museum
What happened once the dinosaurs were gone: plants and animals reshaped Earth into a lush tropical world of new giants and tiny survivors, told through fossils, touchable casts and immersive media.

Was on view in August

The Changing Face of Scienceto 18 Oct
Field Museum
A rotating Comer Gallery series profiling Field Museum scientists — currently Lesley de Souza and Sara Ruane — following their research journeys, passions and personalities.
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lostto 15 Nov
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.

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