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

How do you fashion modern galleries to showcase objects from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? Visitors find out starting Friday.

Those of us who call Urbana-Champaign home know it’s not quite like any other place. There’s a certain spirit in the ...

At the Liverpool Biennial, Karen Tam’s immersive installation transports festivalgoers to the Montreal neighbourhood of her ...

The prominent Vancouver collector has given 61 works to the Ottawa gallery, including pieces from renowned artists such as Ai Weiwei ...

The Art Institute of Chicago announced that director James Rondeau will remain in his role and return to work in June following a bizarre incident on a flight in April.

Rhona Hoffman, who helped launch artists like Cindy Sherman, defined Chicago’s role in the visual art world — and built some of its most prominent private collections.

Jointly organized by the Palace Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago, Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey Through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World brings together more than ...

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 ...

The Art Institute has repatriated other objects in recent months. Last summer, the museum announced that it would be returning a 12-century fragment of a pilaster to Thailand.

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.