Posts by Katie Rahn
Associate Director of Marketing
January 26, 2018
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As Sophie (my favorite art-appreciating then-12-year-old) and I were heading into Past Forward: Architecture and Design at the Art Institute, I asked her what she thought would be in galleries of this nature. “...
April 28, 2017
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There’s more than initially meets the eye to this exceptionally intricate lock, which was forged in iron by metalworker Frank Koralewsky and illustrates a scene from Grimms’ “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...
March 23, 2017
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Bernat Martorell's dynamic 15th-century painting is based on a widely read collection of stories about the lives of saints and depicts the heroic tale of Saint George slaying the dragon. According to the legend, a...
March 3, 2017
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Tomorrow, for the first time in over 60 years, the painting famously known as "Whistler's Mother" will be on view at the Art Institute. We've paired this famous portrait with a selection of other paintings...
February 16, 2017
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Opening on Friday to the public, Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium is the first U.S. retrospective for arguably the most influential Latin American artist of the post-World War II period. Oiticica is known... - 1 of 49
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ARTicle
- Trompe l'oeil: Not Just for April Fools
- How Our (South) Garden Grew: From the Archives
- A New Design for the Alsdorf Galleries
- Spring in the Museum
- Bare-Knuckle Boxing and Crazy Quilting
- Collection Spotlight: Self-Portrait of My Sister
- Meet the Staff: Kirk Vuillemot
- Collection Spotlight: Ancestral Altar Screen (Duein Fubara)
- The Block Party: Let’s Collaborate, Chicago!
- Curious about Curating? Your First Stop: The Andrew W. Mellon Summer Academy
YouTube
- A Portrait of Antinous, In Two Parts - Duration: 7 minutes, 36 seconds.
- 4/1/2016 Session 1 of 3: Color Change in 19th Century Art - Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes.
- Van Gogh's Descendants: Machteld van Laer with Gloria Groom - Duration: 116 seconds.
- Lecture: Cy Twombly's Things - Duration: 36 minutes.
- Artist Talk: Edmund DeWaal - Duration: 1 hour.
- Artist Conversation: Martin Puryear and Theaster Gates - Duration: 56 minutes.
- Histories Remixed: Jim Enote - Duration: 1 hour, 22 minutes.
- Artist Talk: Richard Rezac - Duration: 52 minutes.
- Under Cover: The Science of Van Gogh's Bedrooms - Duration: 8 minutes, 53 seconds.
- Van Gogh's Bedrooms at the Art Institute of Chicago - Duration: 111 seconds.