The fourth edition of Chicago Exhibition Week has launched more than 150 exhibitions across the city, cementing the event's place as the anchor of the Windy City's fall art calendar. Now in its fourth year, the week has grown from a local initiative into a fixture of the national fall season, drawing curators, collectors, and critics to the Midwest. "CXW makes the city feel less like a collection of individual institutions and more like an actual cultural ecosystem," Artnet's Min Chen wrote in a roundup of standout moments. Among the highlights: Jaume Plensa's "Beyond Silence" at Gray Chicago, where the Barcelona artist — whose Crown Fountain has stood in Millennium Park since 2004 — shows massive wood-and-steel sculpture reliefs carved with his signature elongated faces. Spanning more than 28 feet, the works exploit the gallery's vast proportions with an architectural presence of their own; Gray New York has opened a parallel Plensa show. The Art Institute of Chicago's Mary Cassatt survey gathers the artist's greatest hits, including the museum's prized "The Child's Bath" (1893), alongside quieter revelations: Cassatt's 1890s prints, clearly inspired by Japanese woodcuts, lend everyday scenes — women bathing, sealing an envelope, attending a fitting — an unexpected drama. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, "From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard" spreads across three floors to assess the critic and curator's imprint on feminist and conceptual art, drawing on collection highlights by Adrian Piper, Andrea Bowers, and Group Material. Its most intriguing thread is land art, which Lippard both championed and challenged.