The Modern Wing

My mid-year resolution was to properly explore Chicago’s Art Institute. The museum is only a few blocks from work, so the plan is to visit a gallery a day. This humble plan is a little intimidating, so phase one will be the Modern Wing. The collections there are suitably impressive, but there are fewer galleries to explore.

According to the floor plan my checklist is:

• Special Exhibitions (182-184)
• Photography (188) – Visited
• Film Video and New Media (186)
• Architecture and Design (283-286)
• Contemporary Art 1945-1960 (289)
• Contemporary Art After 1960 (288, 291-299)
• European Modern Art 1900 – 1950 (389-399)
• Contemporary Sculpture

Each day I will visit a new gallery, and take a picture with Instagram of something that takes my fancy.

Today I checked off Photography with a particularly impressive collection of the work of Josef Koudelka, a Czech-born French photographer with amazing pictures of the 1968 invasion of Prague, Gypsies, panoramas of the English-French Channel, and theatre performers.