Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

David Applegate, ’78, moved to of counsel status at Williams, Barber and Morel, capping a career of exceptional ...

A New York judge has ruled the Art Institute of Chicago must surrender a 1916 drawing stolen from a Jewish art collector by Nazis in the Holocaust.

A New York judge ruled on Wednesday (23 April) that the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) must return a Nazi-looted Egon Schiele drawing, the latest development in a yearslong battle between the ...

The Art Institute of Chicago must return a 1916 drawing by Egon Schiele to the heirs of an entertainer and art collector, according to a court ruling on Wednesday.

With nearly 2,000 drawings and hundreds of paintings and sculptures, the Horvitz Collection donation represents one of the most significant gifts in the Art Institute of Chicago’s history.

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.

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) has received a massive gift of French art from the collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz. Comprised of almost 2,000 drawings, 200 paintings and 50 sculptures by ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has received a massive gift of French art from collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz.

LeRoy Neiman’s breakthrough came when a maintenance man at his building offered him a wheelbarrow full of leftover enamel paint.