{"id":2642,"date":"2023-01-02T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:45","slug":"local-tourist-art-institute-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/local-tourist-art-institute-of-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Tourist | Art Institute of Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a sort of New Year&#8217;s resolution, I signed up for an annual membership at the Art Institute of Chicago. It&#8217;s in the neighborhood, but like too many things we take for granted in our neighborhood, I hadn&#8217;t been in years. The Art Institute of Chicago website offers nice overviews of some of my favorite paintings we saw again today, including these classics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/27992\/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-1884\">A Sunday on La Grande Jatte \u2014 1884, 1884\/86 | Georges Seurat<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/20684\/paris-street-rainy-day\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/20684\/paris-street-rainy-day\">Paris Street; Rainy Day | Gustave Caillebotte, 1877<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/61128\/at-the-moulin-rouge\">At the Moulin Rouge, 1892\/95 | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/27992\/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-1884\">A Sunday on La Grande Jatte \u2014 1884, 1884\/86 | Georges Seurat<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/28560\/the-bedroom\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/28560\/the-bedroom\">The Bedroom, 1889 | Vincent van Gogh<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/6565\/american-gothic\">American Gothic, 1930 | Grant Wood<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ArtInstituteChicago\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ArtInstituteChicago\"> Art Institute of Chicago YouTube Channel <\/a>includes a host of videos &#8211; from quick reviews of individual paintings to in-depth overviews of artists or exhibits. Signing up for a membership was a perfect way to cap off the holiday season and remind myself to be a better tourist in my own backyard in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a sort of New Year&#8217;s resolution, I signed up for an annual membership at the Art Institute of Chicago. It&#8217;s in the neighborhood, but like too many things we take for granted in our neighborhood, I hadn&#8217;t been in years. The Art Institute of Chicago website offers nice overviews of some of my favorite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[324,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}