How do you fashion modern galleries to showcase objects from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? Visitors find out starting Friday.

The Art Institute, Chicago’s most celebrated cultural institution, sits on the city’s front porch. Yet, it was not there when ...

Two groundbreaking exhibitions in Chicago explore the shift in portrayals of same-sex attraction. They are being staged at a ...

Richard Hunt” opens Friday at the Loyola University Museum of Art, spotlighting America's most prolific public art sculptor.

Though the art and architecture of the fair were mostly destroyed, as was intended, its curious cultural legacy was not.

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological ...

At Sawhorse, “Far Down the Phantom Air” unites the prehistoric and the postindustrial into a devotional that poses worship as pleasure.

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...