Instead of engaging in dialogue with its dedicated Video Data Bank staff, SAIC chose to callously cross out a budgetary line ...

Reality loses its hold on the pictorial surface in the Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination exhibition, replaced by ...

The world-famous lions at the Art Institute of Chicago have some new holiday swag. They're now decked out with giant holiday ...

The future of one of the world’s leading archives of video art has been thrown into uncertainty after the School of the Art Institute of Chicago abruptly laid off three of the five staff members of ...

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago dismissed more than half of the staff last week at the Video Data Bank, a video art–focused organization whose services are used widely by museums across the ...

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in Chicago, Illinois (photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images) The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) laid off 20 workers last week, citing ...

“Work will begin in early 2026 on a projected $50 million transformation of the Art Institute of Chicago’s former principal exhibition space into a world-class conservation center—a project that will ...

Work will begin in early 2026 on a projected $50 million transformation of the Art Institute of Chicago’s former principal exhibition space into a world-class conservation center — a project that will ...

In which Observer's Arts Editor sets out to have as many art and art-adjacent encounters as possible in the Windy City in just two days. Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, better known as the Bean. Photo: ...

Entering the Art Institute of Chicago’s galleries of Asian art, there’s a modest hallway to the immediate right: Gallery 107, home to a rotating selection of Japanese prints. It’s a stop that I make ...

Ari Emanuel, former head of the Endeavor talent agency and brother of former mayor Rahm Emanuel, “has finalized the acquisition of Frieze, the company that includes its namesake publication, seven art ...

Free admission on Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. through Sept. 25. Reservations are required. Admission is always free for Chicago teens under the age of 18, all children under age 14, Link and WIC ...