Chicago is home to a wide array of museums, from revered institutions like the Field Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago ...

The line to get in to most of Chicago's museums can be awfully long, but you don't have to waste half the day waiting to just get in if you prepare.

Visitors looking at a George Seurat painting in the Art Institute of Chicago - James Kirkikis/Shutterstock Before getting your hopes up, be aware that many of Chicago's big museums' free days are only ...

After being closed for refurbishment since January 2024, the Art Institute of Chicago’s 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century European design galleries will reopen Friday with a new configuration that allows ...

The lions at the Art Institute of Chicago must be smiling. It’s about time. In this space three years ago, I excoriated the famed museum for a myriad of reasons. The iconic felines that guard the ...

Using both modern and traditional technologies, Ten X in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago realized two iterations of an ancient and iconic sculpture from the museum's collection. Detail ...

In which Observer's Arts Editor sets out to have as many art and art-adjacent encounters as possible in the Windy City in just two days. Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, better known as the Bean. Photo: ...

The Art Institute of Chicago announced plans for a $50 million center dedicated to its conservation efforts that will offer guests a peek inside the work of the museum’s conservation team for the ...

In what will likely be a major draw for the museum, the Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday installed its first-ever Norman Rockwell painting, and it depicts the Chicago Cubs. “The Dugout,” Rockwell’s ...