By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/90/christopher-brooks" rel="author">Christopher Brooks</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/89/kirk-vuillemot" rel="author">Kirk Vuillemot</a…
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/82/emily-lew-fry" rel="author">Emily Lew Fry</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/77/shannon-palmer" rel="author">Shannon Palmer</a> And if …
For Onchi Kōshirō, abstract art was a very personal means of expression—one he embraced more thoroughly than any other Japanese artist before him. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/56/janice-katz" rel="author">Janice Katz…
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/39/pamela-olson" rel="author">Pamela Olson</a> Repton was a prominent 19th-century English landscape gardener who took an innovative approach to illustrating design proposals for his …
Rubins’s remarkable, nearly five-decade practice is built on a series of contradictions. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/83/makayla-may" rel="author">Makayla May</a> Her monumental sculptures are simultaneously …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/78/kinneret-kohn" rel="author">Kinneret Kohn</a> The entire Students and Educators team in the Learning and Public Engagement Department had been counting the days until March 16, …
There’s a special fascination in going to the places where creativity takes place—as if witnessing the creative process unfold before our eyes somehow allows a transfer of genius. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/76/francesca-casadio" …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/7/leticia-pardo" rel="author">Leticia Pardo</a>, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/69/sarah-kelly-oehler" rel="author">Sarah Kelly Oehler</a>, …
It’s estimated that well over one trillion photographs were made in 2020. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/88/james-iska" rel="author">James Iska</a> How do I know that? I googled it of course. The digital …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/27/paul-jones-2" rel="author">Paul Jones</a> For the price of a quarter, people could pass through the Snow & May art gallery and pay their respects. Many openly wept. The …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/73/madhuvanti-ghose" rel="author">Madhuvanti Ghose</a>, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/70/annelise-k-madsen" rel="author">Annelise K. Madsen</a…
Resilience and persistence—these are traits Bisa Butler emphasizes when contemplating the artists who have most inspired her: artists such as Loïs Mailou Jones and Alma Thomas, as well as Amy Sherald. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/12/ …
When I was about eight years old, I went on a school field trip to the Art Institute and bought some Art Deco paper dolls before we left. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/80/jennifer-evanoff" rel="author">Jennifer Evanoff …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/56/janice-katz" rel="author">Janice Katz</a> For a short but spectacular period in the history of Japanese woodblock prints, it was landscapes—rather than Kabuki actors or beauties— …
In his unpublished manuscript on Joseph Yoakum, Yoakum’s friend and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) professor Whitney Halstead wrote, “This book is about an unusual man.” By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/53/emily-olek" …
Did you notice that presidential portrait in your pocket? By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/71/elizabeth-siegel" rel="author">Elizabeth Siegel</a> The arrival of the Obama portraits in Chicago—Kehinde Wiley’s …
The Asian art collection is indeed rich and robust, spanning nearly five millennia and encompassing all of the continent’s major artistic traditions. But driven by the recent escalation of hateful aggression against Asians nationwide during the pandemic …
Narrator: This is Art Institute of Chicago Presents. And today, we’re featuring Jordan Casteel. Jordan Casteel: To make a portrait is to think in nuanced ways about the layers of the human existence. [Music cue] Narrator: That’s Jordan Casteel, a painter …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/63/antawan-byrd" rel="author">Antawan Byrd</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/62/mimi-cherono-ngok" rel="author">Mimi Cherono Ng'ok</a…
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/70/annelise-k-madsen" rel="author">Annelise K. Madsen</a> They are three separate bronzes, cast at scale. The head has the appearance of a heavy mask, its edges trace the hairline, …
