The Art Institute of Chicago has laid off 22 employees, or 3 percent of its staff, as part of a larger series of cost-cutting measures....
Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 07.18.2009 | Chicago
Tour groups coming from the Modern Wing have been known to straggle across Monroe like a herd of sheep, bringing traffic to a halt....
Brian Dickie | Posted 07.13.2009 | Chicago
I had the opportunity to try out the new restaurant in the Modern Wing of the Art Institute, Terzo Piano. And, for what it's worth, I pronounce it an...
Patricia Zohn | Posted 07.12.2009 | Chicago
New York, LA, San Francisco, Houston, eat your hearts out: Renzo Piano has saved his best US work so far for Chicago.
Edward Lifson | Posted 07.10.2009 | Chicago
If New York can close a part of Broadway, why can't Chicago close a part of Monroe?
Time | Richard Lacayo | Posted 06.26.2009 | Chicago
In today's final installment of that conversation with James Cuno, director of the Art Institute of Chicago, we talk about what it might take to make ...
Edward Lifson | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
With a stunning addition by architect Renzo Piano -- filled with natural light and beautifully detailed-- the Art Institute of Chicago becomes the sec...
Brian Dickie | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
An operatic Facebook? The Opera Insider looks like an interesting addition to the collection in these days of so much social networking.
Brian Dickie | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
Yesterday evening's event at the Art Institute was a rare opportunity. Steuart Bedford and John Evans, a direct line to Britten. Wonderful conversati...
Paul Klein | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago
I felt like a tourist dropped in an unknown, thoughtful, considered, glorious, confident, consummate museum. And then I looked out the window. I was at home.
AP | F.N. D'ALESSIO | Posted 06.16.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Light, bright and definitely pricey _ the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago is a triumph for Pritzker Prize-winning architec...
AP | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Park District has voted to cut a raise in entrance costs for the Art Institute of Chicago by $2. The board in March appro...
AP | Posted 05.29.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A member of the Chicago City Council is attempting to use a 118-year-old contract to increase the number of free admission days at the...
AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - Members of the Chicago City Council are urging the city's park district to repeal a 50 percent increase in museum admission fees. Last...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 04.18.2009 | Chicago
Chicago would cut off the free water spigot and other public subsidies to museums that charge more than $10 for admission, under a measure proposed We...
Edward Lifson | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
When the Modern Wing opens it will drastically change our perceptions the area. Combined with Millennium Park, we now have a stronger than ever cultural presence in that part of downtown.
Mike Doyle | Posted 01.29.2009 | Chicago
Throwing poorly labeled exhibits before Chicago audiences seems to be an epidemic among Windy City museums.
Paul Klein | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago
I asked those who receive my ArtLetters to grade Chicago's institutions that exhibit visual art. Here are the fascinating results.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago