Edra Soto’s work likely appears familiar to you. Though the Chicago-based artist has been commissioned for numerous public artworks in recent years, that is probably not the reason why…
Long before Salvador Dalí’s name became practically interchangeable with Surrealism, the Art Institute of Chicago acquired several of his works, becoming one of the Spanish artist’s…
Around 4:30 in the afternoon on April 26, 1937, the citizens of the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, looked overhead to see a formation of aircraft crossing the sky. They were bombers…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death on April 8, 1973, at age 91. He died in Mougins, France, at his hilltop villa, a 35-room mansion surrounded by 17 acres…