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The MFA, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts are the first institutions awarded grants in a $15m pilot programme
After years of financial problems and timid programming, the Jewish cultural institute is re-emerging with projects like Ellen Rothenberg’s installation on immigration
The director of the MCA Chicago, which turned 50 this year, talks about how museums build citizenship—and soft power
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
The second edition promises visionary solutions and a few surprises
The man behind Feature Inc is remembered for his challenging eye—and a fraught relationship with the market
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
When it was first unveiled 50 years ago in the city centre, the monumental "homely" figure was not beloved by all
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
Monáe is due to perform at the museum’s MCA ArtEdge: 50 gala
Rising art star and activist Theaster Gates is transforming his Chicago neighbourhood, one building at a time
Persepolis tablets on loan to Chicago's Oriental Institute since the 1930s compromised in lawsuit brought by victims of Jerusalem suicide bombing
Former owners of the building stake their claim over the 1974 piece Universe
Who said it was all about modernism?
So far the next generation have yet to replicate their parents’ efforts on the same scale
Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum in Wellington, will hold them until they can be identified
Recent corporate scandals have raised concerns that American charities should be examining their ethics policies
The $475 million Millennium Park includes a bandshell by Frank Gehry and a massive sculpture by Anish Kapoor
Prevailing gloom did not deter buying
Twentieth-century decorative arts market may shift to local firms and Phillips
Limited international collectors, but American museums, local collectors, tourists and children out in force
It is fifty years since this collector and essentially American philanthropist was turned on to art while at Harvard. He has been an integral part of the art establishment in Chicago for decades
Rem Koolhaas to revive inner city property
Commercial galleries with common goals banding together
Money from finance, industry and the law fund some of the city’s leading buyers and contemporary art is high on their agenda
Chicagoans have raised $55 million for this major new museum
But Blackman's New Pier Show promises well