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A groundbreaking exhibit at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 uncovers how visual art helped shape global queer identity between 1869 ...
After a valuable de Kooning was discovered behind a bedroom door, a true crime fan wondered: Is that all the thieves stole?
In a fluorescent-lit diner on a dark city street, film noir-type characters look aloof at the counter while a waiter tends to ...
After a successful career painting cows across the country, Nancy Bass's artwork is being featured in her hometown of Peoria for the first time. Her oil paintings, inspired by her farming past and ...
The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 years ago.
The Art Institute of Chicago Returned a Sculpture to Nepal But Obscured Its Connection to a Wealthy Donor The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen ...
With nearly 2,000 drawings and hundreds of paintings and sculptures, the Horvitz Collection donation represents one of the most significant gifts in the Art Institute of Chicago’s history.
French art from the 16th into the early 19th centuries, the finest in America, is coming to the Art Institute of Chicago as a gift from the Horvitzes. This is big news.
Art Institute steps up efforts to learn the origins of everything in its collection As scrutiny increases of art stolen by Nazis or looted from archaeological sites, the museum has expanded its ...
The Art Institute of Chicago's Gloria Groom described "The Song of the Lark." A social media clip of a 2014 video of actor Bill Murray talking about a painting that he said saved his life recently ...