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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.
Chicago is the home of progressive architecture and innovative design.
Food is a necessity and one of our greatest pleasures.
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists continue to push the contemporary art landscape across a variety of media—architecture, design, installation art, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.
What happens in the space between you and the artworks in front of you? Can your experience of art cultivate greater self-awareness and attention to the present moment?
The artist drove himself to capture what was changing right before his eyes.
Take a closer look at the making of the artist’s recent series of iPad paintings—plus discover his past works, inspirations, and Chicago connections.
Curator Gloria Groom explains how the artist mixed these delicate aquatic flowers to inspire as well as mirror his palette.
Sixty years after Van Gogh died, his nephew took photographer Peter Pollack on a tour of places where his uncle had lived and painted.
A rich and unprecedented exploration of Chicago’s embrace of Claude Monet’s modernism.
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.
Inspired by the Apollo missions, Thomas’s thickly painted patches of vivid color against a white ground creates a sensation of flickering light, which suggests the mysterious beauty of outer space and inspires a sense of wonder.
Use your observations and imagination to bring to life a work of art.
Use your close looking and comparison skills to consider the qualities of works of art and give awards.
Use clues from works of art to make inferences, or guesses based on evidence, about characters.
