NewsMuseums
Several US museums restrict staff travel to high-risk countries in response to coronavirus
Institutions like the National Gallery of Art and the Guggenheim remain open but alert to potential for closing as confirmed cases of Covid-19 rise
NewsBauhaus
Art Institute of Chicago show traces the Bauhaus’s legacy in 20th-century textile art
The weaving workshop was “an incubator of aesthetic and pedagogical talent”
ArchiveLooted art
Top museums in Europe and North America face claims for Dürers looted during World War II
Poland and the Ukraine both want the Lubomirski drawings back
ReviewExhibitions
Dawoud Bey brings viewers on an evocative journey along the Underground Railroad
The artist’s new series of nocturnal photographs, on show at the Art Institute of Chicago, vividly imagine the kinds of scenes escaping slaves might have seen
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2018
A gift for Chicago, a new work for Norway, and a Rothko rockets in price: talking points at Art Basel in Miami Beach
From a Tschabalala Self painting donated to the Art Institute of Chicago to Goshka Macuga's commission the Norwegian parliament
ArchiveThe Art Institute of Chicago
How to avoid digital boom and bust
There are plenty of grants for new digital projects but finding long-term funding could be much harder
ArchiveJanuary 2008
Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture is fake
The Bolton fraud
ArchiveExhibitions
German prints and drawings from Friedrich to Baselitz and the Manilow gift of post-war German works on paper go on show in Chicago
The Art Institute attempts to heal old wounds with upcoming exhibitions
ArchiveMuseums
San Francisco MoMA has new director
Mr Benezra comes to the city's Museum of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago
ArchiveColonial art
Okwui Enwezor's curation examines the effects of post-colonialism on Africa’s artistic output
“The short century: liberation and independence in Africa 1945-94”, creates a “critical biography of Africa”
ArchiveColonial art
Books: a selection of the Art Institute of Chicago's holdings
Painting, design, and decorative arts from Colonial times until the Second World War
ArchiveNazi loot
Goodman restitution case settled out of court
Disputed Degas to go to the Art Institute of Chicago
ArchiveLooted art
US museums deny holding war loot
Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives
ArchiveNazi loot
The Lubomirski Dürers: where are they now?
The Art Newspaper has tracked down twenty-four of the drawings looted by Hitler and sold by the prince whose ancestors had donated them to their local museum
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Making the Art Institute of Chicago a more inclusive place is about more than just architecture
The museum’s director James Rondeau on why the institution is bringing Barcelona architects Barozzi Veiga on board to rethink the whole campus
James Rondeau