Now, timed to the Democratic National Convention (Aug. 19-22), Chicago is debuting a new array of public art throughout the city, much of it by local talent, and all on democratic (with a ...

CHICAGO — Before Georgia O’Keeffe painted her legendary Southwestern scenes, she spent years depicting a very different kind of landscape: the harsh and smoky urban canyons of New York City.

The Art Institute now occupies about 1 million square feet, making it the second largest art institution in the U.S. after the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York City.

A New York judge has ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to surrender a 1916 drawing owned by a Jewish collector that had been stolen by Nazis in the Holocaust.