Chicago: The Art Institute Experience
A very wide angle of the Art Institute of Chicago main entrance. Note: This is the second part of my travelogue on the trip Jennifer and I made recently to Chicago. We went in to and out of the Art Institute of Chicago four times during our stay there. We spent over 7 hours walking the Institute's extensive floors and spaces; several more hours discussing what we saw. We trekked through the Southeast Asian exhibit three or four times as it was a transfer area from one large wing of the museum to the other. I recalled seeing much of that collection's style when I was living in India . The temples there are covered in vast intricate engravings. I pointed out the Cambodian section to Jennifer before we knew the art was, in fact, Cambodian. I know my Southeast Asian art styles. But that certainly was not the great attraction for Jennifer and me. Nor was ancient Roman and Egyptian art. Nor was African, medieval, nor religious art, all of which are plentiful a