Two large-scale group portraits from the Dutch Golden Age, on long-term loan from the Rijksmuseum and the Amsterdam Museum, provide an extraordinary opportunity for visitors to enjoy a type of Dutch painting rarely seen outside the Netherlands. In these imposing works, two of Amsterdam's most important portraitists from the mid-17th century, Govert Flinck (1615–1660) and Bartholomeus van...

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A selection of the museum founder’s extensive journals illuminate his dreams for the museum, passion for art, and relationships with emerging and established artists. Duncan Phillips was a prolific writer. Starting in his days as a student at Yale, Phillips wrote about art and literature, recounted trips abroad, and recorded his dreams for his museum. He generated lists of works desired and...

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This new public art installation of works by the artist in Millennium Park on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Plensa’s acclaimed Crown Fountain, coincides with the exhibition of recent sculpture by Jaume Plensa in a new range of media, currently on view at Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago. Both projects continue Plensa’s ongoing focus on the human figure, specifically the head a...

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Artists: Thomas Brummett and Nine Francois - Thomas Brummett's works are part drawing, part dream and part photograph. By Manipulating the film grain by using bleaches, developing baths and brushes.  Traditional wildlife photography paradoxically separates the viewer from nature while at the same time providing an illusory proximity to it. Nine Francois uses the camera lens to reverse thi...

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Happy Birthday John James Audubon!  Audubon's work connects the dots between art and science.  His inventive compositions of birds in their natural habits were a precursor to the modern study of ecology.  His engravings from the Birds of America are prized examples of American natural history. Audubon's biography.

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Virgil Ortiz is an internationally renowned ceramicist, fashion designer, and graphic artist from Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. He uses contemporary art to blend historic events with futuristic elements. Set against Ortiz’s graphic murals, this exhibition features 31 clay figures and invites visitors to immerse themselves in a storyline that Ortiz created that begins with the Pueblo Revol...

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New York-based artist Jill O’Bryan’s polished chrome sculpture is "a celebration of longevity and a life well lived."  It takes approximately 97 years to breathe a billion breaths. “Our corporeal relationship to the number one billion is experienced both intimately and politically,” says artist Jill O’Bryan. “one billion breaths in a lifetime is a...

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Nature inspires us with her simplicity, her lines, and her infallible ability to amaze. Through the work of the artists collected here, I invite you to revel in form and delight in the bounty of shapes nature has designed for us. - Aaron Casey   The exhibit will provide a counterpoint to the French flower paintings on display concurrently at the Denver Art Museum’s summer spectac...

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28th Annual Summer Group Exhibition -- featuring Robert Andriulli, Ellen Hill, Sheep Jones, Amy Lamb, Annie Leibovitz, Tom Miller, Kathryn O'Grady, Katja Oxman, Hollis Sigler and Frank Trefny

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Janet Schwartz’s pastels, oil paintings, and charcoal drawings capture the complex visual landscapes of office life and long commutes.  Open to magic in all places, she finds beauty in the stark angularity and patterns of light on building façades, rendering the shadows of conference rooms, office cubicles, and gray corridors with a particular eye to the elongated late afternoon...

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