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

Two groundbreaking exhibitions in Chicago explore the shift in portrayals of same-sex attraction. They are being staged at a ...

Richard Hunt created more public sculptures and monuments in the U.S. than any other artist — over 160 by the time he died in ...

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 ...

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 ...