Chicago
Expo Chicago grows but local dealers drop out
While international exhibitor numbers are up again, the Midwest collectors base proves elusive
Chicago resurrects its master craftsman
Edgar Miller finally gets his due as the city prepares to celebrate the overlooked designer’s eclectic work
Hairy who? The group that put a spell on the 1960s Chicago art scene
Art Institute of Chicago hosts first major survey of the loose artist collective
Chicago’s art history, revised
Art in Chicago illuminates a rich and ultimately countercultural legacy
Tadao Ando designs Chicago art space dedicated to architecture and socially engaged work
The inaugural show at Wrightwood 659 will focus on Ando and Le Corbusier
Anish Kapoor sues NRA for copyright infringement
An image of his Chicago sculpture Cloud Gate was used in a video by the gun lobby that the artist says “seeks to whip up fear and hate”
Chicago’s Surrealists get the homecoming they deserve at the Arts Club
An exhibition at the historic members club recognises a lesser known group of artists
Key figure of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Charles White, finally gets his due
Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to celebrate artist and activist after lengthy search for works
Chicago dealer Richard Gray has died, aged 89
The gallerist and patron was a key figure in the city’s art scene for more than 50 years
Bridging the divide: Terra Foundation and Art Bridges fund collaborative programming between major art institutions and regional venues
The MFA, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts are the first institutions awarded grants in a $15m pilot programme
Is Chicago’s Spertus museum making a come back?
After years of financial problems and timid programming, the Jewish cultural institute is re-emerging with projects like Ellen Rothenberg’s installation on immigration
Madeleine Grynsztejn: 'A great art work and a great museum do the same thing—they raise consciousness'
The director of the MCA Chicago, which turned 50 this year, talks about how museums build citizenship—and soft power
Ofili adds restaurant design to his CV
To celebrate its 50th birthday this year, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has given itself a gift as part of a building redesign: a new restaurant
Rehab and reuse top of agenda at Chicago Architecture Biennial
The second edition promises visionary solutions and a few surprises
Wright to auction the personal collection of Hudson, iconoclastic gallerist and artists’ champion, in Chicago
The man behind Feature Inc is remembered for his challenging eye—and a fraught relationship with the market
Art school under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been accused of cowardice and censorship over its treatment of former professor and Henry Darger expert Michael Bonesteel
The story behind the ‘controversial’ Picasso sculpture that became a symbol of Chicago
When it was first unveiled 50 years ago in the city centre, the monumental "homely" figure was not beloved by all
Richard Gray Gallery opens new warehouse space in West Town, Chicago
A show of new work by Jim Dine inaugurates the building, while a concurrent display of his painting and drawing from the 1960s opens in the New York outpost
Janelle Monáe celebrates the MCA Chicago
Monáe is due to perform at the museum’s MCA ArtEdge: 50 gala
Inside the house that Theaster Gates built
Rising art star and activist Theaster Gates is transforming his Chicago neighbourhood, one building at a time
Possible US sanctions on Iran could create back door for commandeering of museum antiquities as damages
Persepolis tablets on loan to Chicago's Oriental Institute since the 1930s compromised in lawsuit brought by victims of Jerusalem suicide bombing
Calder in Chicago’s Willis tower in legal battle
Former owners of the building stake their claim over the 1974 piece Universe
Collector Richard Driehaus's private museum gets a classical makeover
Who said it was all about modernism?
Chicago's industrialist benefactors built the city’s art collections—but can today’s patrons maintain them?
So far the next generation have yet to replicate their parents’ efforts on the same scale
Field Museum to return Maori remains to New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum in Wellington, will hold them until they can be identified
As US museums face mounting legal issues, an annual conference explores what to do with whistleblowers and dodgy donors
Recent corporate scandals have raised concerns that American charities should be examining their ethics policies
Chicago unveils its new art park
The $475 million Millennium Park includes a bandshell by Frank Gehry and a massive sculpture by Anish Kapoor
Special shows and artists on site made Chicago the capital of the craft market
Prevailing gloom did not deter buying
Sotheby’s ends auctions in Chicago
Twentieth-century decorative arts market may shift to local firms and Phillips