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 ...

Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra) by Kerry James Marshall is on view as part of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” at the Art Institute of Chicago. Using his ...

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 ...

Installed in October, Sharifa, by Simone Leigh, is the first new artwork to be added to the Art Institute of Chicago’s North Garden since 2018. It is a portrait of the writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts.

An ancient tooth in a crystal vessel inside a gilded silver frame at the Art Institute of Chicago was long thought to belong to John the Baptist, a contemporary of Jesus. But testing ruled that out.

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 ...

David K. Nelson Jr., a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, displayed his painting “Mirth & Girth” — which ...