With our exhibition Art and Appetite, we invite you to feast your eyes on the rich tradition of food and drink in American art with over 100 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the 18th century to the 20th century. Continue the celebration of delectable edibles in your kitchen with our online cookbook featuring vintage American recipes featured in the exhibition as well as some scrumptious new offerings from Chicago's top culinary talent.

This summer, there are an infinite number of ways to design your own museum visit, but a trip to Henri Cartier Bresson: The Modern Century should definitely be at the top of the list. Don’t miss the nearly 300 prints from the most influential photographer of the 20th century and the master of both the timely and the timeless. There are more ways to experience the museum this summer; take a look at some of our favorite summer Art Institute visits.

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Inventive. Collaborative. Research-driven. Led by principal and founder Jeanne Gang, Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects has established itself as one of the premier architectural firms working today. Inside Studio Gang Architects presents an engaging workshop-like environment that showcases and reveals the practice's creative process as they seek architectural solutions to pressing contemporary issues. During the course of this exhibition, two Archi-Salons will engage a host of architects, journalists, and critics in discourse surrounding the contemporary practice of architecture. Held within the gallery space, the two salons will focus on different perspectives that influence current practices. These conversations will be inspired by Studio Gang’s work, but ultimately will address larger issues in the field of contemporary architecture.

Our understanding of the world is based on connecting and interpreting ideas according to associations and the juxtaposition of information within a given context. Appropriating the ambidextrous term, hyperlinks, this exhibition of collaborative experimentation suggest a new paradigm shift that we see occurring across the fields of architecture and design based on a fluid exchange between disciplines. The linking or accumulation of data helps us form a complex picture of daily life leading to greater interaction, engagement, and understanding of our place in the world. By fostering rigorous, cross-disciplinary relations, architects and designers are carving out new avenues for experimentation that are helping shape insightful solutions to urgent issues such as our well-being and our health and safety, ultimately enhancing the quality of our daily lives. Not always intended as ends in themselves, however, multi-disciplinary practices can also be used as experiments into under-explored issues meant to motivate reflection on the values, mores, and practices that are often overlooked in society. Discover the innovative ways architects and designers are probing beyond the confines of their fields to explore new directions and innovative solutions to current cultural conditions.

Collage is commonly thought of as a modern art form, but the act of “playing with pictures” has a long, rich, and surprising history. Sixty years ahead of the avant-garde—and more than a century before Photoshop—aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. This world-premiere exhibition is the first to comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon, presenting many eye-opening works that have rarely—and in many cases never—before been displayed or reproduced. See Playing with Pictures at the Art Institute before it travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. It might change the way you look at the Victorian age.

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