“We are disappointed with the ruling,” a museum spokesperson told me in an email. “There is significant evidence that demonstrates this work was not looted and previous courts have found that evidence ...

Goff’s unconventional work isn’t easily categorized, but he left his mark on the Chicago area with some unusual residences.

Including the international debut of the Pokémon Fossil Museum and a never-before-seen collection of works by Matisse.

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After being closed for refurbishment since January 2024, the Art Institute of Chicago’s 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century European design galleries will reopen Friday with a new configuration that allows ...

The leader of the Art Institute of Chicago is taking time off amid an investigation into his behavior on an airline flight last month. Citing unnamed sources, WBBM-TV/Channel 2 reported late Friday ...

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Dive into one of the biggest museums in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago, through five must-see works, from Impressionist painting to Modernist stained glass. A Sunday Afternoon on the ...

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Since it was acquired in 1964, Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street; Rainy Day” has become all but synonymous with the Art Institute. It appears in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” and in ...

In which Observer's Arts Editor sets out to have as many art and art-adjacent encounters as possible in the Windy City in just two days. Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, better known as the Bean. Photo: ...

A walk through the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center’s first floor is a walk through African American history. It begins with slavery, and a visualization of slave ships arriving in ...