But in part because of the dominance of the New York art scene and biases about so-called regional art, the group has faced ...

“The whole world is a mystery,” the painter Gertrude Abercrombie said in a 1977 interview, just months before her death at the age of 68. The remark tied around a lifetime of Abercrombie’s work like a ...

Bronislaw “Bruno” Sowa, Untitled, c. 1980-1995; Paint on carved wood, 25 ½ x 39 x 1 in. Collection of Intuit Art Museum, gift of Eugenie and Lael Johnson, 2017.2.2 Isarnu Guy Conners’ North Avenue ...

Inviting fresh attention from the art world is a group of fiercely independent artists who flourished in Chicago over the last century, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, when a sense of grit and ...

Imagine you’re a tourist from Spain, a recent arrival from Venezuela or maybe the Chicago-born child of an immigrant. You’re stumbling into the Museum of Contemporary Art for the first time, and to ...

The Chicago Park District said Thursday that it has reached a deal to end a lawsuit over the removal of Chicago's Christopher Columbus statues. The City of Chicago, which owns the statues, will not be ...

"The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.," Chicago, IL: Chicago Historical Society, 1991, no. 51. Mooney, Amy M., "Archibald J. Motley Jr.," San Francisco, CA ...

The famous painting by Grant Wood shows a farmer holding a pitchfork and a woman standing next to him. The earlier sketch is ...

Studio Saturday weaving at the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) in Chicago (photo by Beto de Frietas, courtesy NMMA) America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The couple has a cute dachshund named Dahlia, who enjoys napping on a couch near the front windows of as colorful a storefront business as you are likely to ...