When visiting the Art Institute of Chicago, be sure to check out Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, one of the best-known paintings in American art. One wonders if this painting is of a real coffee ...

William Adolphe Bouguereau was a French painter ... give myself to my dear painting I am miserable.” Bouguereau died on August 19, 1905 in La Rochelle, France. His works are in the collections of the ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

Home to one of the country's most impressive collections of impressionist and post-impressionist art (plus works from numerous other genres), the expansive Art Institute of Chicago features nearly ...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression, unless you’re an impressionist painter. In that case, each day ...

The sculpture Sharifa, created by Simone Leigh, stands in the North Garden of The Art Institute of Chicago. It is a portrait of writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share ...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is massive, featuring 350 works of art, with paintings, sculpture, video and audio, as well as historical ...

It was sold for $39.9 million, at the time a record high price for a painting sold at an auction. In 2001, a Yasuda representative wrote to the Art Institute of Chicago ahead of an exhibition ...