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 from the Kathmandu Valley. However ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
Frida Kahlo's 'Month in Paris' exhibit at Art Institute showcases obscure friendship with American artist
Though this is the first Kahlo exhibition in the history of the museum, only seven Kahlo works are featured among the 100 on ...
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Art Institute’s first-ever Frida Kahlo exhibition
Go back in time through “Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris” and experience her first and only trip to Europe in 1939.
Kathan Brown, Acclaimed Fine Art Printmaker, Dies at 89
She helped revive the centuries-old tradition of intaglio printing in the U.S., producing fine-art etchings with artists like ...
When WWII’s ‘Invisible Spy’ visited Chicago’s Art Institute with James Bond creator Ian Fleming
This excerpt from the new book by former Sun-Times reporter and “Masters of Sex” author Thomas Maier details the Bond ...
A French Coup for the Art Institute of Chicago
The Horvitz collection of Old Master French drawings and paintings, the best in America, heads to Chicago as a gift.
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Van Gogh’s Radiant Portraits of a Postman’s Family Get a Rare Reunion
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...
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Longtime photography teachers offer a show of their own work
An exhibition of photographs by longtime visual arts teachers Connie Schlelein and Monica Kuhlman Jacobson will be on display ...