“Elizabeth Catlett: ‘A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies,’” a remarkably bracing new exhibit stuffed with politics and activism and fascism and standing up for everyday laborers and ...

The Grainger Center for Conservation and Science, due to open in 2027, will occupy prime real estate in the museum’s former Regenstein Hall.

The 25,000-square-foot Grainger Center for Conservation and Science will bring together the museum’s 40 specialists in a ...

Here, debates about whether art can change a city give way to evidence that it already does through cultural labor and shared ...

Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) was a revolutionary printmaker, sculptor, and painter with a body of work spanning six-plus decades. This fall, the Art Institute of Chicago presents a long-overdue ...

Her retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago highlights politically transformative relationships between Black women ...

The Grainger Center for Conservation and Science, projected to cost $50 million to build, will be a space for conservators ...

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 ...

A truly monumental piece of art, 100 feet long and comprised of 21 panels, is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. The piece is called "Paradise Lost," and was painted by artist Raqib Shaw, who ...

Two groundbreaking exhibitions in Chicago explore the shift in portrayals of same-sex attraction. They are being staged at a fraught moment. Andreas Andersen, “Interior with Hendrik Andersen and John ...

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