Collection Updates

Artworks occasionally go off view for imaging, treatment, preparation for Art Institute exhibitions, or loan to other institutions. If there is a particular artwork you’re hoping to see on your visit, please check our online collection to make sure it is currently on view.

Paul Cezanne’s The Bathers, 1899–1904

El Greco’s The Assumption of the Virgin, 1577–79

Richard Hunt’s Hero Construction, 1958

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, 1906; Water Lily Pond, 1900; Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, 1900; and Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882

Archibald Motley Jr.’s Nightlife, 1942

Rembrandt van Rijn’s Young Woman at an Open Half-Door, 1645

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–95

Vincent van Gogh’s The Bedroom, 1889

The galleries of European design (231–234) are closed for renovation and will reopen with a dramatically refreshed display in July 2025.

Galleries 136 and 137, featuring Indigenous arts of the Americas and arts of Africa, will be closed June 25 and beginning July 2 for upcoming changes to our campus.

Painting and Sculpture of Europe galleries 202, 204, and 205 will be closed July 21–September 12, and gallery 207 will be closed July 21–October 10. Gallery 206 will be closed September 8–October 10.

As we work over the next several years to evolve our campus to better serve our visitors and showcase our collection, you’ll notice some changes along the way.

On July 2, galleries 136 and 137, currently featuring Indigenous arts of the Americas and arts of Africa, will close as we prepare to transform this space into the new Regenstein Hall, our main exhibition space. You’ll soon thereafter find works from these collections incorporated into other galleries in interesting ways.

• This fall, look for works of Indigenous art of the Americas to be incorporated into Gallery 161, paving the way for a full refresh and expansion of our arts of the Americas collection that fully integrates Indigenous arts of the Americas into the wide-ranging story of creativity on these continents.
• Beginning in August, keep an eye out for works of African art to be presented in dialogue with other collections throughout the campus, while later this year internationally renowned Chicago artist Simone Leigh will curate a small presentation of African works in the Modern Wing.

In mid-July 2025, we debut fully reimagined galleries devoted to 16th–19th-century European design and elegantly designed by leading Spanish architects Barozzi Viega. Learn more.

In late December, with the opening of Bruce Goff: Material Worlds, Regenstein Hall will move to what had been galleries 136 and 137, near the spiral staircase.

The museum continually acquires new works by gift or by purchase that expand the stories that we tell in our galleries. Learn more about newly acquired works here.