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Our favorite Modern Wing artworks

Don't miss the highlights of the Art Institute's addition.

By Lauren Weinberg. Photographs courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Published: May 11, 2009

Gerhard Richter, Woman Descending the Staircase, 1965. Richter, whose painting Kerze graces the cover of Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, is one of Germany’s most important postwar artists. The Modern Wing devotes an entire rotating installation to his work.

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