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This rare and delicate work demonstrates the exchange of Chinese and Western influences in the 18th century.

Our expansive gallery of African art has been reconsidered and reinstalled.

Contemporary artist Tai Xiangzhou’s Cosmic Symphonies pays homage to tradition while pushing past earthly bounds.

The social norms inspired by COVID-19 safety precautions have had an interesting effect on our relationship with art in a museum.

Gentle eyes, a wise, ambiguous smile, and carefully rendered features distinguish this powerful and intimate portrait in charcoal.

A landmark painting significantly expands the museum’s holdings of both Clark’s work and postwar abstraction.

The author explores how the hard-fought civil rights victories of the 1960s enabled his parents to immigrate here and start a family.

Learn the ins and outs of our new search engine—and see works you’ve never seen before.

My hope is that people might unexpectedly see themselves at our institution and develop a lifelong fondness.

A new feature on our website has a lot of people really excited: the ability to search the collection by color!

Cutting-edge technology allows us to gain a surprising amount of insight into the materials that artists used to create paint.

Meet Kenneth Sutherland, Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Scientist at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Turn your face to the sun. It is spring, and skies are increasingly blue and wide.

Would you be inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s Sky above Clouds IV if you knew it had been designed and crafted by a program?

“It’s exciting to be trying new things, like bringing hip-hop music into the galleries and playing it really loud.”

Curator Kevin Salatino takes a look at how O’Keeffe joined her two worlds, east and west, desert and ocean, reconciling opposites.

Curator of Chinese art Colin C. Makenzie finds comfort in the simple elegance of these pale green ceramics.

The artist drove himself to capture what was changing right before his eyes.