Renoir’s “Madame Léon Clapisson” (1883), with its current state on the left & digitized restoration on the right (all images courtesy Art Institute of Chicago)
Art as we see it now isn’t always as the artist intended. After the paint dries, there’s still chemistry happening on the canvas.
An exhibition currently at the Art Institute of Chicago is exploring one such alteration of a 19th century…
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(via Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Increasingly Reliant on Fee-Generating Loans)
oston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) has significantly expanded its practice of lending out marquee artworks in its collection for profit, according to the Boston Globe. The paper reported that a number of masterpieces from the MFA’s collection, including Claude Monet’s “Grainstack (Sunset)” (1891), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Dance at Bougival” (1883), and Vincent van Gogh’s “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888), are spending more and more time on the road.
In 1915, with the newly innovated film camera, a young Russian-born, French actor named Sacha Guitry captured some of France’s greatest artists and authors. His footage of Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and other luminaries in their twilight years appeared in his first cinematic work, a 22-minute silent film called Ceux de Chez Nous (Those of Our Land).
Rare 1915 Films Show Rodin, Monet, Renoir, and Degas in Their Twilight Years
Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing Now 30% Closed
Photo of the Art Institute’s Modern Wing Facade (Dave Jordano/Art Institute of Chicago)
CHICAGO —…
In a recent interview with the French design blog Clique, noted college dropout Kanye West claimed that he is “getting an honorary doctorate on May 5th from the Art Institute of Chicago.”
Is the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Really Giving Kanye West an Honorary Doctorate?
CHICAGO — Deana Lawson’s photographs thwart easy notions of symmetry. In her latest solo exhibition, the first installment of the new Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Series at the Art Institute of Chicago, Lawson addresses issues of identity in global black culture through portraits of strangers she’s encountered across the world. In these glowing images, black people as far as the Congo and as near as Brooklyn are presented as bold individuals. The symmetries Lawson tackles are multifold, ranging from visual to metaphorical: she often uses architectural interiors to bisect or frame defiantly unruly compositions; in her group shots, radial symmetries are apparent, but do little to bring order to the energy coursing out. This visual teasing makes clear the asymmetries — social, racial, economic — that are at the heart of this complicated, powerful work.
Now available for rent on Airbnb is a full-size, 3D replica of Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting “The Bedroom” (1889), complete with rustic twin bed, pale violet walls, copper-green wood floor, and straw hat on a peg. Created by the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), the installation part of a promotion for the exhibition Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, centered around three paintings he created while living in his “Yellow House” in France, from 1888 to 1889.
Rent a Re-creation of Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom on Airbnb — Just Don’t Chop Off Your Ear
CHICAGO — The Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, which opened in 2009, has reinstated its contemporary collection after giving over most of the space in 2015 to a much-lauded retrospective of the American sculptor Charles Ray. Rather than just reinstalling everything that was there before, the contemporary galleries are now centered around 44 works donated to the museum by Chicago collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, touted by the museum as “the largest gift in the Art Institute’s 136-year history.” The new collection was curated by James Rondeau, today appointed as the director of the museum.
Pop Irony’s Enduring Influence in the Art Institute of Chicago’s New Contemporary Collection
