Last month, about 1,700 college students from eight Art Institute college campuses — including one here in Houston — opened their e-mail to learn they had one week until their school would close ...

“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 ...

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Since it was acquired in 1964, Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street; Rainy Day” has become all but synonymous with the Art Institute. It appears in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” and in ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Art Institute of Chicago is getting a new addition thanks to a $75 million donation. The gift is courtesy of Aaron I. Fleischman and his husband, Dr. Lin Lougheed—who have been ...