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The Department of Conservation and Science is responsible for the treatment, research, and long-term preservation of more than 300,000 works of art in the Art Institute’s collections.
Explore our range of print and digital titles, from popular collection publications to scholarly exhibition catalogues.
The artist Camille Claudel devoted her short but remarkable career to sculpting the human figure.
Cities—centers of human activity, growth, and creativity—have long incited imaginative responses from artists across time and place.
Hundreds of artworks entered the museum’s collection last year, each one broadening and deepening the stories we can share. Get to know some of our most notable new works below.
Explore the ways LGBTQ+ artists have expressed gender, sexuality, and identity in the vast world of queer culture.
Four curators share their favorite elements of the newly reimagined galleries and the deeper, richer, more entwined narratives they tell.
New digital tools offer innovative ways to view works from the collection.
The installation of the new Eloise W. Martin Galleries offered an opportunity to conserve and reevaluate this icon of the collection, leading to significant discoveries.
The impact of this transformative gift—44 works by artists who radically altered the course of contemporary art—continues to reverberate throughout our galleries, complementing and informing more recent additions.
This digital publication features forty-four paintings by Ivan Albright in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection, presenting art historical and conservation research and high-resolution images of each work.
Expansive in its timeline and its range of media, this richly illustrated digital publication features more than one hundred works from the Art Institute’s collection of ancient Egyptian art.
This digital volume—on the work of Claude Monet—is the first in the series Paintings and Drawings by Artists of the Impressionist Circle at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Explore a work of art by analyzing the artist’s choices. Then, on the back of this sheet, plan your own creative work.
Look closely at the work Alma Thomas, an artist who explored color, light, and the natural world through painting. Learn more about the artist and her work, make art inspired by her example, and explore the work of other artists with connections to Thomas.
Take a deep look at Weaving by Diego Rivera to learn how Indigenous Mexican traditions and modern art movements influenced his creative practice. Using the activities provided, you can make weavings and portraits inspired by your heritage. Plus, explore collection works by Rivera’s peers.
Learn about by Elizabeth Catlett who used her art to honor Black history and culture and to fight for social justice, including in her collaborative work with the Mexican printmaking collective, Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP).
