The Art Institute of Chicago has received a massive gift of French art from collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz.

For years, an elaborately displayed tooth at the Art Institute of Chicago has been thought to belong to the major Christian religious figure John the Baptist. As it turns out, that claim has no teeth.

Since Friday, hundreds of dead and sick birds have been found along Lake Michigan’s shore — all likely infected with bird flu ...

The Met’s Costume Institute announced on Tuesday it will bring back the previously defunct tradition of a “host committee” to ...

Chicago History Museum workers have stated their intention to unionize. They were inspired by cultural workers who have ...

The Art Institute of Chicago offers free days for residents ... For students in the Illinois districts that do have school on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a new law may apply, allowing them an ...

who studied at the School of the Art Institute and who lived in Cairo, Ill. We have a large-scale installation by Ebony G. Patterson, an artist who lives between Chicago and Kingston, Jamaica.

For a city in transition — evolving from the old days of backroom Machine politics and toward a more inclusive future — his ...

At the Evanston Art Makers Outpost, Maggie Leininger can spin a yarn.   Leininger, a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is working on a project that tells ...

"Helmut Jahn wanted the lines of the building to emulate the waves of Lake Michigan, and he wanted it to be the 'jewel box of ...

This is the week we recall the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Although we don’t single out his birthday as a nation any longer, ...

Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ H. Edwards Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ H. Edwards was born on Dec. 21, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to Elizabeth Sifers and George Phillips ...