Exhibitions in Chicago

September 2027

September at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 1 closing, and 3 more on view across the city.

A diver in scuba gear face to face with a carved statue underwater

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Eliot Porter, Snow and Grass, Colorado (detail), 1959

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

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An African sculpture from the Art Institute's Arts of Africa collection, shown in Body and Being in African Art

Closing in September

Cleopatra & Egypt's Sunken Cities19 Sept 2027
Field Museum
More than 200 objects raised from ancient Egyptian ports underwater, centred on Isis, Aphrodite, Helen of Troy and queens Cleopatra and Arsinoe II.

Also on through September

The Seasons: Time, Change, and the Natural Worldto 20 Dec 2027
Art Institute of Chicago
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.
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lostto 3 Jan 2028
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.
Body and Being in African Artto 1 Mar 2028
Art Institute of Chicago
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.

Image credits

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Cleopatra & Egypt's Sunken CitiesPhoto: Jerome Delafosse ©Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation
The Seasons: Time, Change, and the Natural World© 1990, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist.
Raqib Shaw: Paradise LostCourtesy of Art Institute of Chicago
Body and Being in African ArtCourtesy of Art Institute of Chicago

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