CHICAGO — The Art Institute of Chicago today announced the election of Eric Lefkofsky as the organization’s new chair of the ...

Join artist Charles Ray and museum educator Sam Ramos for an informal gallery tour and conversation about Ray’s creative ...

CHICAGO—The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to unveil a newly imagined and installed gallery for the arts of Korea on November 1, 2024. The new installation is ...

The most ephemeral of all Japanese prints, fans depicting popular Kabuki actors, beauties, and landscapes were common during the Edo period (1615–1868). They came in two shapes: the folding fan (ōgi) ...

The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the head of Emperor Trajan, facing right, laureate. The back (reverse) depicts a triumphal arch with four columns, three arches: Trajan in center above ...

James McNeill Whistler painted marine subjects throughout his career. For several years beginning in 1855, the expatriate American artist divided his time between London and Paris; in the latter, he ...

Following a period spent producing Parisian scenes in the style of Édouard Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard virtually reinvented his art around 1905. The artist’s new emphasis on ...

The work of Giorgio de Chirico represents an unexpected form of classicism in early avant-garde painting. This canvas, one of six in a series, combines a Mediterranean cityscape with still-life ...

With a myriad of special event spaces ranging from traditional to modern, the museum offers endless options for your engagement party, rehearsal dinner, bridal shower, wedding ceremony, or reception.

John Singleton Copley was largely self-taught, his only formal training from his stepfather Peter Pelham, an English artist who specialized in mezzotint engraving. He nonetheless garnered considerable ...

Frederic Remington crafted this scene of bloody confrontation for white audiences east of the Mississippi River, who imagined the West as a place of both danger and opportunity. An unseen Sioux ...

The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats in the famed Cirque Fernando in Paris. Although they were depicted in the center of a ...