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Art Institute of Chicago

The Most Influential People in the Art World Today

The women and men on Observer’s 2023 Business of Art Power List have their fingers on the pulse of the art market, and they’re unflinchingly optimistic. In the face of market contraction, ongoing uncertainty about the role of major cultural institutions and everything else that’s happening in the art world, these power players find inspiration in everything from art’s philanthropic potential and growing reach to the rapidly changing narratives around what art is and who it’s for. In short, they’re the people wielding outsized influence on art’s present and its future.
By Dan Duray,  Farah Abdessamad,  Christa Terry,  and The Editors

One Fine Show: Remedios Varo at the Art Institute of Chicago

This is the first solo show dedicated to her work in the United States since 2000.
By Dan Duray
A well-muscled man rendered in pencil falls

Art Institute of Chicago Purchases Nearly 1,500 Works From Art Collector Charles Hack

Hack's collection will fill a major gap in the museum's collection of Dutch artwork.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Exterior shot of the Art Institute of Chicago

Former Art Institute of Chicago Manager Indicted for Embezzling $2 Million From Museum

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Wages at Museums are Rising, But So Too is Inflation

By Helen Holmes

LeRoy Neiman Spent Decades Painting Olympians as the Games’ Official Artist

By Helen Holmes
Rashid Johnson.

Rashid Johnson Made These ‘Anxious Red Drawings’ in Response to Coronavirus

By Helen Holmes
David Hockney, In the Studio, December 2017. Photographic drawing printed on 7 sheets of paper.

What Else to See During Expo Chicago: Sanford Biggers’ New Work, Hockney Tackles Time and Space

By Devon Van Houten Maldonado

The 51 Artists, Curators, Directors and Dealers Changing the Art World in 2018

By Margaret Carrigan, Juliet Helmke and Guelda Voien
Modern Family actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson poses with a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Is Jesse Tyler Ferguson Really Vincent van Gogh?

By Alanna Martinez
Institutions from MoMA to the Art Institute of Chicago will be hosting this spring's blockbuster museum shows.

Top 10 Must-See Museum Shows Opening This Spring

By Alanna Martinez
The Great Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Admission Fees Are Too Damn High

By Daniel Grant
CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 24: A lion sculpture outside the Art Institute of Chicago wears a batting helmet to help the city celebrate the Chicago Cubs making it into the World Series on October 24, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs will face off against the Cleveland Indians in the World Series beginning tomorrow. This will be the Cubs first trip to the Series since 1945. The Indians last trip to the Series was 1948.

Art Institute Lions Don Chicago Cubs Hats, 600 Women Artists Pose for Group Photo

By Alanna Martinez
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 07: French artist 'JR' poses with some of his giant portraits at Somerset House for his Inside Out project on October 7, 2013 in London, England. Displaying at the Lazarides gallery and also on hoardings at a building site opposite the Old Bailey, the exhibition is comprised of giant black and white images of members of the public who are photographed in a mobile studio mounted on the back of a small truck. The Inside Out photo booth truck is located on the River Terrace of Somerset House from 3rd - 11th October 2013.

JR to Make Louvre Pyramid Disappear, Tate to Show Elton John Collection—and More

By Alanna Martinez
Vincent Van Gogh's Bedroom recreated at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Photo: Art Institute of Chicago via Instagram)

Van Gogh’s Bedroom for Rent on AirBnB, Barbie Goes on View in Montreal—and More

By Alanna Martinez
A visitor walks past marble statues on display at Rome's Capitoline Museum (Musei Capitolini) on Capitol Hill on January 26, 2016. Italy's desire to court visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani extended to covering up classical nude sculptures in the Capitoline Museum, where he met Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, it emerged on Tuesday. / AFP / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)

Italy Clothes Nude Statues for Iranian Prez, MFA Boston Buys Frida Painting—and More

By Alanna Martinez
LACMA’s new prize: Mrs. Cazalet and Children Edward & Victor (1900-01) by John Singer Sargent. (Photo: Promised gift of Barbra Streisand in honor of the museum’s 50th anniversary)

Barbra Streisand’s Birthday Present to an LA Museum, and Other Big Donor Deals

By Daniel Grant
Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter: My Prices Are Too High, Are Degas Sculptures at AIC Fakes? and More

By Guelda Voien
Just when you think Kanye can't get any crazier...

Art World Abstracts: Art Institute of Chicago to Give Degree to Kanye West, and More!

By Nate Freeman
Art Institute of Chicago. (Courtesy Getty Images)

Art World Abstracts: Art Institute Is the ‘Best Museum on Earth,’ and More!

By Alanna Martinez

Mellon Foundation Funds Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship at Five Museums

By Zoë Lescaze
Ghez. (Courtesy CCS Bard)

Susanne Ghez Named Adjunct Curator at Art Institute of Chicago

By Andrew Russeth
The Art Institute of Chicago. (wallyg/Flickr)

Kate Nesin Named Associate Curator at Art Institute of Chicago

By Andrew Russeth
Douglas Druick, the newly named director of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Photo: Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago Designates Douglas Druick Director

By Andrew Russeth
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