For the first time in the history of the Art Institute, nearly all of its unparalleled tapestry collection is featured in a spectacular presentation. After decades in storage, these monumental artworks were subject to one of the largest tapestry conservation projects ever undertaken by a private workshop. Freshly conserved to their full splendor, The Divine Art's 70 masterpieces will only be on view for two months and then will return to storage, so be sure to catch these majestic works at their best—dazzling the eye beyond expectation.

Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926—1938 focuses on René Magritte’s breakthrough Surrealist years, peeling back the layers of this inventive and experimental period in the artist’s career to reveal the development of the themes and motifs that make his art so unforgettable. Each of Magritte’s enigmatic works encourages viewers to think and search deeply, and in the case of the Art Institute’s iconic Time Transfixed, that kind of probing investigation revealed surprising twists and turns in the making of painting.

2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known today as the Armory Show. A landmark event in the history of art, this monumental exhibition showcased the works of the most radical European artists of the day alongside those of their progressive American contemporaries. Presented differently at each of its three venues—New York (69th Regiment Armory, February 17–March 15), Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, March 24–April 16), and Boston (Copley Society, April 23–May 14)—the exhibition introduced a broad spectrum of the American public to the visual language of European modernism, forever changing the aesthetic landscape for American artists, collectors, critics, and arts institutions.

Steve McQueen is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work is primarily engaged with moving images. Born in London in 1969, he has, over the last twenty years, made a series of film and video installations designed for gallery-based presentation, along with two feature films made for cinematic release. His efforts in these two distinct, but interrelated, arenas have earned him a reputation as one of the most important and influential artists of his generation working with these media, and beyond. McQueen's earliest works are silent, and mostly black-and-white, often with a focus on the body, very often the artist’s own. Subsequent pieces incorporate, as a general rule, sound and color, and often emerge from more elaborate investigations.

Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World is an interactive guide to the Ancient Art Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago. This Web site is named after Cleopatra, queen of Egypt from 51 to 30 B.C., because she embodied the three great cultures of the ancient Mediterranean region: she was Greek by birth, ruled Egypt as its queen, and lost her kingdom to Rome.

In 1976 Crombie Taylor used then state-of-the-art multi-media slide projection technology to represent Louis Sullivan's eight Midwestern banks at architectural scale and with exquisite fidelity to their stunning polychromy. Now digitized, Taylor's program, together with his pioneering Sullivan building restorations and stencil exhibit, reveals a previously unknown Sullivan, a master of mass and volume, and a new starting point for our understanding of early modern architectural history.

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360 Degrees: Art beyond Borders brings together the Art Institute, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Poetry Foundation, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs for a globe-spanning array of concerts, lectures, performances, readings, and symposia. In tandem with exhibitions pulled from the Art Institute’s encyclopedic collection, leading museum directors, renowned musicians, international poets, and cultural leaders explore the role of art and culture around our ever-shrinking globe. This season will offer visitors the singular opportunity to see, hear, and consider the riches the world has to offer, all under one roof.