“Elizabeth Catlett: ‘A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies,’” a remarkably bracing new exhibit stuffed with politics and activism and fascism and standing up for everyday laborers and ...

An installation view of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.” Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- An iconic piece of art has gone back on display at the Art Institute of Chicago after five years in storage. The series is credited with establishing the popularity of landscape ...

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WILLIAMSTOWN — Men and women, dressed in muted tones, are running, crawling uphill, clasping children to their breasts as they try to escape the pursuing floodwaters. Others raise their hands to the ...

We read with interest Hannah Edgar’s feature “How light a touch is too light?” (Aug. 3) about the handling of Gustave Caillebotte’s sexuality by the Art Institute and the renaming of the exhibition ...

In the centuries following the Han dynasty’s collapse in 220, China’s territories divided into varied arrangements of frequently short-lived smaller states. In the north, periods of rule by ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — This sea serpent wants to be noticed. That makes it an outlier among its contemporaries — whether it's Nessie of the famous loch in Scotland or Champ of America's own Lake Champlain, ...

An exhibition at Houston’s Menil Drawing Institute explores the relationship between drawing and TV from the 1950s to the ...