The sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi for $450m (including fees) at Christie’s New York on 15 November shattered every record for art prices. Since then, speculation about the identity of the buyer has ranged from Chinese billionaires to the Microsoft co-founder and Leonardo Codex collector Bill Gates; from French government officials for Abu…
There are two versions of French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Two Sisters (On The Terrace).” One has hung in the Art Institute of Chicago since 1933. The other is in President Donald Trump’s New York apartment. But one of them is a fake — and the Art Institute says it isn’t the one in Chicago. Trump,…
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) today announced the appointment of Mary Jane Drews as its new Director of External Affairs. Drews, who comes to the MIA from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), where she was Vice President of D…
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) today announced the appointment of Mary Jane Drews as its new Director of External Affairs. Drews, who comes to the MIA from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), where she was Vice President of D…
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Highlighting Italy’s rich cultural heritage, the J. Paul Getty Museum is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian unification with the Italian Showcase, a presentation of objects from its permanent collection that draws visit…
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Highlighting Italy’s rich cultural heritage, the J. Paul Getty Museum is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian unification with the Italian Showcase, a presentation of objects from its permanent collection that draws visit…
CHICAGO, IL.- Beginning around 1910, a group of vanguard artists working in Europe advanced the radical idea that art had a mandate to transform daily life, from silverware to postage stamps to buildings. This theory would eventually take hold in th…
CHICAGO, IL.- Beginning around 1910, a group of vanguard artists working in Europe advanced the radical idea that art had a mandate to transform daily life, from silverware to postage stamps to buildings. This theory would eventually take hold in the w…
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago and TASCHEN are pleased to announce a new landmark arrangement between the country’s second-largest art museum and the publisher of best-selling art books. The Museum Shop of the Art Institute has recently ope…
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announces a major acquisition by the museum’s Department of Contemporary Art: Robert Rauschenberg’s Combine of 1955, Short Circuit. This visually arresting and autobiographically rich work is the first major R…
