Exposure—Matt Keegan
Matt Keegan discusses his previous works that relate to the site-specific installation in the exhibition Exposure which grew out of the arti...
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Art Institute of Chicago Lectures
Enjoy these audio recordings of free public lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago by the world's foremost and emerging artists and scholars. This podcast is brought to you by the Ancient...
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20 of 220 episodesVan Gogh—The Life
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize winners for their biography on Jackson Pollock, presented their new book about Vincent...
Bertrand Goldberg with Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner in Chicago, 1965
In this 1965 rare recording, Bertrand Goldberg leads psychologists Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner on a tour of the recently completed Marin...
Exposure—Heather Rasmussen
Heather Rasmussen recreates international shipping containers in miniature, crafting them by hand from colored cardstock which she then dama...
Sustaining Fellows Exhibition Opening: Windows on the War—Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945
One of the special privileges of Sustaining Fellows membership is the opportunity to see exciting exhibitions before they open to the genera...
Artists Connect: Joyce Owens Connects with Marc Chagall
Painter Joyce Owens grew up in a culturally diverse neighborhood; her strong African American roots were infused with Jewish culture. Respon...
Byzantine Reliquary Pendants
James Robinson, British Museum, provided a rich overview of Byzantine Reliquary Pendants and reviewed the context from which they came. This...
Seeing Things: John Marin's Watercolors
Curator Martha Tedeschi explores how the artist's influential experiments in watercolor and unorthodox ideas about framing helped create mod...
Objects Speak Back
James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, reviewed observations on how we see things with a particular look at art. He was intro...
Sustaining Fellows Annual Meeting
On February 14 the Sustaining Fellows gathered for a recap of the previous year and also hear some news of things to come at the museum. Aft...
Woven Traditions: Asante and Ewe Textiles
Nii Quarcoopome, Detroit Institute of Art, highlighted selections of Asante and Ewe textiles in the Art Institute of Chicago collections. He...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Jason Hill)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990s. Jason Hill, PhD candidate,...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Heather Diack)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990s. Jason Hill, PhD candidate,...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (David Campany)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990s. Jason Hill, PhD candidate,...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Abigail Solomon-Godeau)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990s. Jason Hill, PhD candidate,...
Changing Face, Changing Place—A History of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Curator Kathleen Bickford Berzock traces the history of African Art at the museum from the 1920s to the present, introducing the new install...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Sophie Hackett)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990. Louis Kaplan, professor of...
Symposium—Material Witness: Documentary since the 1940s (Louis Kaplan)
Speakers for this symposium provided a rich overview of documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1990. Louis Kaplan, professor of...
Artist Talk—An-My Le
Photographer An-My Le reviewed her work highlighting the Vietnam War reenactment scenes and those of soldiers training for Iraq. This lectur...
Horace Pippin's Cabin in the Cotton
Curator Sarah Kelly discusses self-taught artist Horace Pippin's layered paint technique and reviews primary sources that seem to have inspi...