Art Review
An Impressionist's Ode to Male Sensuality
A retrospective of the work of Gustave Caillebotte illuminates the painter’s radical focus on the male form and the lives of men.
Art Institute of Chicago
News
Art Institute of Chicago President on Leave After Stripping on Plane
The museum confirmed that James Rondeau is currently under investigation.
News
Art Institute of Chicago Returns Sacred Buddha Statue to Nepal
The sculpture was identified by the online heritage activist group Lost Arts of Nepal as matching one stolen from Kathmandu.
News
Art Institute of Chicago Gets "Transformative" $75M Gift
Collectors Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed’s donation will fund a new building to house the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art.
Art
First Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York Paintings Now on View in Chicago
Overlooked by NY institutions and the male art world, the artist’s experimental depictions of skyscrapers get their own exhibition a century later.
Art
The High-Drama Kabuki Portraits of an Enigmatic Artist
An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago features over 30 of Tōshūsai Sharaku's rarely shown ukiyo-e prints exemplifying the classic Japanese theater genre.
Art
The Singular Style of Chicago’s Art
The more time I spent at Four Chicago Artists, the more I wanted to know about the less familiar paths these artists took in their work.
Art
The Fetishistically Fantastic Art of Christina Ramberg
Ramberg was one of the lesser-known — but, to my mind, most exciting — artists often grouped together as the Chicago Imagists.
News
Police Arrest Dozens Protesting for Gaza at Art Institute of Chicago
The demonstrators symbolically renamed the school “The People’s Art Institute.”
Art
Kameelah Janan Rasheed Embraces the Unknowable
Her multidisciplinary practice takes text as a point of departure, stripping away layers of meaning until only the marks remain.
Interview
Remedios Varo’s Strange and Mysterious Universes
“In Varo’s work there is often a sense of geographic travel, but also a sense of traveling down material pathways that no one has ever looked at before,” says curator Caitlin Haskell.
Art
What Today's Museums Can Learn From Van Gogh
Van Gogh and his cohorts were actively searching for new means to translate modern culture. Why aren’t we taking risks?