Rooms with A View

If you're getting your architecture fix during NeoCon, you won't want to miss two of the city's most recent significant additions—Renzo Piano's Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago, and his Nichols Bridgeway that connects the museum to Millennium Park. Incorporating the Pritzker Prize—winning architect's signature style of vertical lines and transparency, the wing will inaugurate its special exhibition galleries with the show "Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007." The selection—32 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures never before seen in a U.S. museum—explores the artist's interest in nature.



Also at the museum, "Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago" honors the seminal urban-planning document that shaped the Windy City, as part of the Burnham Plan's 100th anniversary. The exhibition presents maps, diagrams, perspective drawings, and watercolors. If you stay in town past NeoCon, continue the centennial celebration by visiting temporary pavilions in Millennium Park designed by Zaha Hadid and Ben van Berkel (opening June 18). Twombly runs through September 13; Burnham through December 15. 312-443-3600; artic.edu.

From top: Renzo Piano's Modern Wing; photo courtesy of James Iska/the Art Institute of Chicago. Cy Twombly's Untitled, 2007; photo courtesy of the Gagosian Gallery.