Chicago gets Modern

The Art Institute of Chicago has opened a new Modern Wing.

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the Modern Wing provides a new home for the museum's collection of 20th- and 21st-century art.

Nearly a decade in the making, this 264,000 square-foot building increases the size of the Art Institute by a third, making it the second largest art museum in the United States.

The building will house the museum's world-renowned collections of modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, architecture and design, and photography.

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