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.

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 ...

In a fluorescent-lit diner on a dark city street, film noir-type characters look aloof at the counter while a waiter tends to them. It’s 1942, and the scene is called "Nighthawks." This painting by ...

The Art Institute, Chicago’s most celebrated cultural institution, sits on the city’s front porch. Yet, it was not there when ...

Queer Art and Activism in Chicago” is a messy, exuberant gathering of painting, sculpture, photography, film and ephemera ...

A groundbreaking exhibit at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 uncovers how visual art helped shape global queer identity between 1869 ...

Composed of 21 panels that stretch 100 feet wide, "Paradise Lost" traces four chapters of the artist's life, from childhood ...

The original meaning behind the cards, first created 500 years ago, still remains elusive. But that didn't stop our reporter ...

“The term homosexual was coined in 1869,” says Jonathan D. Katz, the co-curator, along with art historian Johnny Willis, of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939.

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