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“This head of Christ,” the artist said, “is an acid test of American democracy.”

Curator Sarah Kelly Oehler draws attention to an American artist who captured the quietly uncanny nature of everyday life.

Curators Yechen Zhao and Stephanie Strother discuss our city’s dynamic artistic atmosphere as revealed in two very different current exhibitions.

On its journey to the Art Institute, Adams’s massive floor work—a woven map of the lived experience and physical terrain of his South African hometown—grew out of Cape Town and returned to it.

And what they find helps to develop and refine their personal artistic visions.

Curator Annelise K. Madsen remembers the career of the turn of the 20th-century sculptor, her training and robust support in Chicago, and her evolution from working in plaster to casting her pieces in bronze.

Collectors in Chicago, along with the Art Institute, were early champions of radically new artwork by a French artist named Claude Monet.

There will always be a constant battle in my heart and mind.

This story reminds us that collections are shaped by real people—with real ambitions, contradictions, and desires.

The Great War had different effects on the lives of three metalsmiths who all traveled abroad to serve.

Smart exhibition design facilitates a physically distanced yet powerful and intimate experience.

An iconic piece of South Side history by a pioneering architect joins the museum’s collection.

An art collector and her expert advisor—early admirers of Monet’s luminous paintings—made the city a destination for Impressionist art.

Curator Zoë Ryan invited artists, designers, and architects to use works from the museum’s collection as a means to make vital connections and start timely conversations. Here are six selections.

For some visitors to the museum, looking at art is a religious experience.

Follow the journey of Matisse’s painting Daisies from its theft by the Nazis to its permanent home in the Art Institute’s collection.