Tadao Ando Room, Art Institute of Chicago

Sandy Caribou

“People will wax poetic about the Chagall Windows and tell you not to snooze on the Thorne Miniature Rooms, and rightly so! They’re important pieces of Chicago’s history and staples of the Art Institute’s seemingly encyclopedic collection. My personal favorite gem is the Tadao Ando Gallery, a site-specific installation of 16 wooden pillars installed in a darkened room (Gallery 109). When I worked a”