The Art Institute of Chicago: Fast Pass

Home to some of the world's most recognizable artworks, the Art Institute of Chicago is America's second-largest art museum. Seeing famous art at the Art Institute of Chicago is a reliable way to ensure your day in the Windy City is nothing short of spectacular.

Exhibitions Information
Bruce Goff: Material Worlds
Exhibition period: : 2025-12-20 ~ 2026-03-29
This major retrospective celebrates the unbounded creative practice of American architect Bruce Goff (1904–1982).

Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024
Exhibition period: : 2026-01-31 ~ 2026-06-01
Over the course of five decades, Dunham has engaged in wide-ranging formal and thematic experimentation across various media, yet his drawings represent a distinct, interconnected body of work.

Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking
Exhibition period: : 2026-01-31 ~ 2026-07-20
This exhibition focuses on Samaras's innovative photographs, which unite his background in performance and his technical achievements with instant process film, particularly Polaroid.

Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost
Exhibition period: : 2026-06-07 ~ 2026-11-15
At the Art Institute, Shaw debuts his more-than 100-feet-wide, 21-panel Paradise Lost (2009–25), the artist's most ambitious and personal project to date. This magnificent allegorical painting takes viewers on a spellbinding journey, from the nocturnal solitude of the artist's childhood in Kashmir to the frenzied daylight of the art world and the West to finally a fragile, renewed dawn.