The Art Institute’s wide-ranging collection is a testament to thousands of years of human creativity and artistic ...

From the late seventeenth century to the present, well-attended public exhibitions of artwork in Paris created an opportunity for a diverse group of Parisians to view and form opinions about works of ...

In this vivid painting, William Glackens portrayed the members of his circle at their favorite meeting place, the New York restaurant Mouquin’s. Jeanne Mouquin, the proprietor’s wife, shares a drink ...

Rufino met a sympathetic soul in the artist and fellow Escuela Nacional student María Izquierdo.

In 1911 Francis Picabia met Marcel Duchamp, who had devised a unique style of painting that combined Cubist elements with pseudodiagrams in humorous compositions. Stimulated by Duchamp’s example, ...

This picture was taken of a television showing the famous Nixon-Kennedy presidential debates of 1960. The debates, the first ever to be broadcast on television, introduced a new and singularly ...

v. 1–3 of 3 published, 1834–5 (v. 1–2), c. 1849 (v. 3) ...

Edgar Degas was the most subtle portrait painter in the Impressionist group. His portraits, mostly of family members and close friends, were executed primarily in the period from the late 1850s ...

Cindy Sherman is a major figure in the contemporary revival of directed, or staged, photography. Her work explores the pervasive effects that mass-media images have upon the construction, assumption, ...

This unique and elegant venue offers main-floor and balcony-level seating and is the perfect setting for an evening of dinner, entertainment, and amusement. Set a traditional stage for a stand-up ...

A windblown girl looks out toward the viewer, shielding her eyes from the blinding sun with one hand while holding on to her younger sister with the other. Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was ...

Louis Sullivan, architect; for Dankmar Adler, Architect. Left: c.1885-1895 (view image); Right: 2006 (view image).