Art Institute of Chicago

The creative process behind Edward Hopper's paintings

2013-05-24 10:00:00

NEW YORK — As 1938 came to a close, painter Edward Hopper was a man on a mission. Again and again, he would pick up his sketchbook and head for a cluster of New York City movie theaters. Sometimes it was the Republic or the Palace, other times the...

'The Cooked Seed' details Anchee Min's fraught immigrant saga

2013-05-09 15:00:00

By the time Anchee Min made it to America in 1984, she was "considered a 'cooked seed' — no chance to sprout." As she explains in her new memoir, "I was 27 years old and life had ended for me in China. I was Madame Mao's trash, which meant I wasn'...

Working Hollywood: Tattoo artist Dickcherry has lasting influence

2013-01-26 07:45:00

The artist and graphic designer known as Dickcherry doesn't sport any real tattoos, but he makes temporary ones for characters in the supernatural thriller "Mama," the action movie "The Last Stand," and "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters." "I can't even...

Review: Charles Reiffel retrospective is an eye-opener

2013-01-19 07:00:00

SAN DIEGO — In the history of American art, Charles Reiffel is probably the best early Modernist painter you've never heard of. Celebrated in his own day for Expressionist landscapes of remarkable verve and complexity, he quickly fell off the...

Danh Vo wins 2012 Hugo Boss Prize from Guggenheim Foundation

2012-11-01 16:23:00

Artist Danh Vo has been named the winner of the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize, which is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation. Vo, who was born in Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Denmark, will have a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New...

Michael Asher dies at 69; pioneering conceptual artist

2012-10-17 00:00:00

Michael Asher, the pioneering conceptual artist who challenged expectations of what constitutes a work of art and what happens during an art critique, died in his sleep at his Los Angeles home early Monday after several years of poor health. He was 69....

Karl Benjamin dies at 86; painter created colorful geometric works

2012-07-26 16:01:00

Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its...

LeRoy Neiman dies at 91; artist depicted sports in bold strokes

2012-06-20 21:55:00

LeRoy Neiman, a wildly successful American artist who was famous for his colorful portraits of athletes in motion and who became an artistic fixture at such major sporting events as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, has died. He was 91. Neiman, who was...

Willie Middlebrook dies; photographer documented African American life

2012-05-11 00:00:00

Willie Robert Middlebrook, a photographer who sought to enlarge public perceptions of the African American community through painterly depictions of its people and places, died Saturday at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City. He was 54. The cause was...

Gene R. Summers dies at 83; architect renovated L.A. Biltmore

2011-12-22 00:00:00

Gene R. Summers, an architect and developer who undertook the first major renovation of the historic Biltmore Hotel, reviving interest in downtown Los Angeles and helping to spark its revitalization, has died. He was 83. Summers, who retired to the...

Monster Mash: Broad Museum at MSU; World Trade Center site

2011-12-09 16:32:59

Cuno on Bomford's departure and hiring a new museum director

2011-12-13 21:33:10

Active duty military personnel and their families receive free admission to various museums in the Chicagoland area including the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Children's Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art. For a list of participating museums go to nea.

2013-05-24 08:55:00

Art Institute of Chicago

2013-05-24 08:38:00

Who eats: A mixture of businesspeople, museum visitors and diners taking it easy with a glass of wine. Why eat: It's a chance to sample Spiaggia chef Tony Mantuano's cuisine while enjoying Michigan Avenue views from atop the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2013-02-25 00:00:00