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From managing construction to making large-scale sculpture, he takes on big projects with ambition, care, and an eye for detail.

Just like letters and cards, artworks sent through the mail make personal connections.

The famous actress was also an accomplished sculptor who above all fashioned her own celebrity.

There’s something extraordinary about the Art Institute lions, something that could only come from the vision of a remarkable artist.

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

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

Discover the artists who have and continue to inspire Bisa Butler—not only because of their work and distinct vision but due to their unrelenting perseverance and passion.

“I didn’t understand it. But I certainly could not dismiss it. I felt a kind of quickening.”

A paintings conservator describes the unique experiencing of preparing artworks for travel to Chicago.

To activate a magnificent artifact beyond the constraints of its formal museum setting was a revelation for me.

With a global perspective and outgoing manner, she guides and supports emerging professionals at every stage, from undergraduate internships to post-doctoral fellowships. 

With her photographs and debut film, the Kenyan artist aims to collapse the distance between object and viewer.

Curator Annelise K. Madsen ponders how the life casts of Abraham Lincoln’s face and hands—objects with an uncanny presence—offer an opportunity to rethink and reimagine our collective past.

In the 1880s the new mix of industry and nature in the evolving Parisian suburbs prompted Van Gogh and his contemporaries to experiment with radical painting approaches.

An unexpected move to a residential high-rise gave O’Keeffe a new perspective on nature and the built environment.

This striking early-career sculpture by the artist, well-known for her distinctive prints, allows us to shine a spotlight on a second, vital facet of her practice.