CHICAGO — The Art Institute of Chicago today announced the election of Eric Lefkofsky as the organization’s new chair of the ...

Find us on the first floor of the museum’s Modern Wing. Turn left after you enter at 159 East Monroe. The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Learning Center (RLC) is the museum’s hub for learning and ...

Louis H. Sullivan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 3, 1856. His formal education was erratic, but its scope and variety laid the foundation for Sullivan’s monumental presence on the ...

Digital Resources is a growing on-line representation of special collections and archival materials. It contains reproductions of print publications, websites presenting important collections in whole ...

Never been to the Art Institute before and not sure what to expect? Never fear. We’ve got plenty of handy tips to make your visit fun and inspiring—and likely not your last. Purchase tickets in ...

The governing body for both the museum and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Board of Trustees is a group of highly dedicated individuals who bring their wide-ranging expertise to ensure ...

Thanks to the generosity of our members, donors, volunteers, and friends, every year we are able to grow our global collection, expand our audience engagement, strengthen our exhibition program, and ...

A pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael, Meindert Hobbema often borrowed motifs from his teacher, such as the watermill seen here. Watermills, which Hobbema employed more than 30 times in his paintings and ...

In this triptych, Mary, crowned as the queen of heaven, is surrounded by female saints in an enclosed garden (called a hortus conclusus) evoking paradise. Singled out on the right wing is Saint Ursula ...

In January 2023, I joined the provenance research team at the Art Institute, tasked with studying objects in the collection from Southeast Asia. My specialty is Hindu-Buddhist art and archeology of ...

Natalia Goncharova first painted the subject of the Spanish dancer in 1916, while touring Spain as a set and costume designer with Sergei Diaghilev’s traveling ballet company, the Ballets Russes. In ...

In the late 1940s Clyfford Still, along with Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, originated the type of Abstract Expressionism known as color-field painting, a term used to describe very large canvases ...