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Museum News Releases Index 1939-98
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The following record is the first installment of the Museum Archives project to document the history of The Art Institute of Chicago through its News Releases, the first of which is dated December 26, 1921. The Index is based on the accumulated news releases kept in the Archives and provides a timeline and perspective of Museum affairs from 1939 to 1998. Please use a search option or click on a year:
 1939  1940  1941  1942  1943  1944  1945  1946  1947  1948
 1949  1950  1951  1952  1953  1954  1955  1956  1957  1958
 1959  1960  1961  1962  1963  1964  1965  1966  1967  1968
 1969  1970  1971  1972  1973  1974  1975  1976  1977  1978
 1979  1980  1981  1982  1983  1984  1985  1986  1987  1988
 1989  1990  1991  1992  1993  1994  1995  1996  1997  1998

Legend

  • abbreviations: AIC (Art Institute of Chicago), SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
  • each outlined summary of an issue indicates its topic and often refers to its contents
  • the date of issue posted on the left upper corner of a summary may not necessarily correlate with an event, appointment or exhibition. For exhibition dates go to AIC Exhibition History
  • numbers given in italics are designated for in-house archival reference only.

Please send comments and inquiries to archives@artic.edu (312) 443-4777, AIC Archives Department.

$5 fee is required to obtain Xerox copies of News Releases and other related documents.

Index compiled by Jamily Mansurova under supervision of AIC Institutional Archivist Bart Ryckbosch, and with assistance of AIC interns Rebecca Perez-Sanchez, Sandra Steele, Nadia Szerwinski, Barbara Toczydlowska, Jennifer Bukovsky.

     
 

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