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The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff
The museum's union called the plan to outsource in-house custodial work to a third-party vendor a "devastating and unconscionable injustice."
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Art Review
The Shapeshifting Sculpture of Diane Simpson
From one angle, her sculptural constructions appear deep, but from another flat; here they look angled, there not.
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.
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Art Institute of Chicago President on Leave After Stripping on Plane
The museum confirmed that James Rondeau is currently under investigation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.