The Art Institute’s wide-ranging collection is a testament to thousands of years of human creativity and artistic ...

Rufino met a sympathetic soul in the artist and fellow Escuela Nacional student María Izquierdo.

Combining painting, sculpture, and carpentry, this unique object was created collaboratively by Paul Gauguin and his younger contemporary Émile Bernard. Their artistic experiments, often undertaken in ...

CHICAGO—The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce Jeremy Frey: Woven on view from October 26, 2024 through February 10, 2025. The exhibition is a mid-career retrospective of the work of ...

During her short life, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) radically charted her own path, exploring the singular aspects of the feminine experience in a bold style that foreshadowed Expressionism. Her ...

Since 2019, Giovanni Verri has been a conservation scientist in the Department of Conservation and Science. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Ferrara, Italy, and MA in conservation of ...

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The Art Institute uses a security screening and weapon-detection system at all entrances. The system uses low-frequency (ELF) radio waves—in the range used by the anti-theft systems many retail stores ...

Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s collection—from our renowned icons to lesser-known works from every corner of the globe—as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other ...

Untitled (Portrait of Man with Large Mustache), 1850/99 ...

J. C. Spooner Untitled (Lebanon, N.H.), n.d.