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 ...

Responsible for the treatment, research, and long-term preservation of over 300,000 works of art in the Art Institute’s collections, the Department of Conservation and Science is integral to the ...

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 ...

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

Join artist Charles Ray and museum educator Sam Ramos for an informal gallery tour and conversation about Ray’s creative ...

CHICAGO—The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to unveil a newly imagined and installed gallery for the arts of Korea on November 1, 2024. The new installation is ...

The most ephemeral of all Japanese prints, fans depicting popular Kabuki actors, beauties, and landscapes were common during the Edo period (1615–1868). They came in two shapes: the folding fan (ōgi) ...

In the summer of 1867 Claude Monet stayed with his aunt in Sainte-Adresse, an affluent suburb of the port city of Le Havre in Normandy, where the artist grew up. Monet began the painting outdoors on ...

Shiraga Kazuo. Golden Wings Brushing the Clouds Incarnated from Earthly Wide Star (Chikatsusei Maunkinshi), 1960. Through prior purchase from the Mary and Leigh Block Fund, restricted gift of Barbara ...

Need some help to get the creative writing juices flowing? Try starting with some art and the prompts below. Who knows where your imagination will take you … These activities are great for children ...

Dan Flavin began creating sculptural objects from commercially available fluorescent-light fixtures in 1963. In the decades that followed, he made systematic arrangements of fluorescent-light tubes in ...