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On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history.<ref name="architecutre">{{cite news| title=Renzo Piano Embraces Chicago| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/arts/design/14muse.html| first=Nicolai| last=Ourossof| date=May 13, 2009| newspaper=The New York Times| access-date=2011-06-13| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513210441/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/arts/design/14muse.html| archive-date=2011-05-13| url-status=live| df=mdy}}</ref> The {{convert|264000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} addition, designed by [[Renzo Piano]], makes the Art Institute the second-largest museum in the US.<ref name=secondlargest/> The [[architect of record]] in the City of Chicago for this building was Interactive Design.<ref>{{cite web| title=The Modern Wing At The Art Institute Of Chicago| website=Interactive Design Architects| url=https://interactivedesignarchitects.com/portfolio-post/the-modern-wing-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago/| access-date=2020-08-06| language=en-US}}</ref> The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art, including [[Pablo Picasso]]'s ''[[The Old Guitarist]]'', [[Henri Matisse]]'s ''Bathers by a River'', and [[René Magritte]]'s ''[[Time Transfixed]].'' The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection of Surrealist art includes the largest public display of [[Joseph Cornell]]'s works (37 boxes and collages).<ref>{{cite news |title=Joseph Cornell's Works At The Art Institute |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-03-23/entertainment/9703230020_1_joseph-cornell-utopia-parkway-art-institute |last=Seaman |first=Donna |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=March 23, 1997}}</ref> The Wing also houses [[contemporary art]] from after 1960; new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries including original renderings by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] and [[Bruce Goff]]; temporary exhibition space; shops and classrooms; a cafe and a restaurant, ''Terzo Piano'', that overlooks Millennium Park from its terracecafe.<ref>{{ cite news |title=A New Kind of Institutional Dining |url=http://www.zagat.com/Blog/Detail.aspx?SCID=42&BLGID=20948 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505234903/https://www.zagat.com/Blog/Detail.aspx?SCID=42&BLGID=20948 |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |work=[[Zagat]] |date=May 27, 2009}}</ref> In addition, the [[Nichols Bridgeway]] connects a sculpture garden on the roof of the new wing with the adjacent [[Millennium Park]] to the north and a courtyard designed by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol.