CHICAGO—The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to share a selection of our most exciting acquisitions of 2024. This year, the museum added more than 1,000 new works to its permanent collection, ...

“For me, painting the crosses was a way of painting the country,” recalled Georgia O’Keeffe about the series of compositions featuring Catholic crosses that she created upon visiting the Southwest in ...

In December 1931 Pablo Picasso began a series of paintings of Marie-Thérèse Walter, a French model with whom he was romantically involved while married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. Perhaps ...

On the front (obverse) of this coin the king Vabalathus is portrayed, facing right and wearing a crown of laurels. On the back (reverse), the emperor Aurelian is similarly portrayed, facing right and ...

The Art Institute offers almost a million square feet to explore. Use the museum floor plan to help navigate a course for your visit. Planning your visit? Download our Visitor Guide (in English or ...

The front (obverse) of this coin depicts the forepart of a lion, leaping right with head turned back and mouth open. The back (reverse) shows a 4 part square, with alternate quarters incused. In one, ...

The front of this coin portrays Scipio Africanus (the elder), with a trident preserved at left. On the back the god Jupiter stands between between the goddesses Juno and Pallas. Below them is ...

The Hellenistic period spans the nearly three hundred years between the death of Alexander the Great of Macedonia (323 B.C.) and that of Cleopatra VII of Egypt (30 B.C.), a descendant of one of ...

Following the premature death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, his generals, friends, and heirs engaged in forty years of wars over his empire. Lysimachus (reigned 323–281 BCE), one of Alexander’s ...

Pan-Africanism, first named and theorized around 1900, is commonly regarded as an umbrella term for political movements that have advanced the call for both individual self-determination and global ...

Join Interpretation staff members Nancy Chen and Molly Bryson for a creative writing program inspired by Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me. Participants will be guided through a series of close-looking ...