Modern Wing

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Modern Wing

 

Modern Wing

On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history. The 264,000 square foot addition, designed by Renzo Piano, makes the Art Institute the second-largest museum in the US. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art, including Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist, Henri Matisse’s Bathers by a River, and René Magritte’s Time Transfixed. It also houses contemporary art from after 1960; new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries; temporary exhibition space; shops and classrooms; a cafe and a restaurant, Terzo Piano, that overlooks Millennium Park from its terrace. In addition, the Nichols Bridgeway connects a sculpture garden on the roof of the new wing with the adjacent Millennium Park to the north and a courtyard designed by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol.

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Nichols Bridgeway linking the Modern Wing to Millennium Park

 

the Art Institute extends over the rail tracks
with the Modern Wing on the Eastern side

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picasso

 

Klee

 

Matisse

 

Chagall

 

 

Frank Lloyd Wrights desk designsign

 

 

the controversial three legged chair

 

 

courtyardyard


 

 

Egyptian

 

 

 

 

Arabic TileTile

 

 

Spanish

 

 

Meissen Porcelain

 

 

 

monkey band

 

the faces of Honoré Daumier

 

Edgar Degas

 

 

 

Photos of Millennium Park


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