A truly monumental piece of art, 100 feet long and comprised of 21 panels, is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. The piece is called "Paradise Lost," and was painted by artist Raqib Shaw, who ...

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 ...

Here, debates about whether art can change a city give way to evidence that it already does through cultural labor and shared ...

“Elizabeth Catlett: ‘A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies,’” a remarkably bracing new exhibit stuffed with politics and activism and fascism and standing up for everyday laborers and ...

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