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  1. ProPublica: The Art Institute of Chicago Returned a Sculpture to Nepal But Obscured Its Connection to a Wealthy Donor. “The Art Institute of Chicago announced recently that it had returned to Nepal a sculpture that had been in its collection for at least a quarter century. Conspicuously left out of the press release: that the sculpture had been a gift from a wealthy Chicago donor.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/propublica-the-art-institute-of-chicago-returned-a-sculpture-to-nepal-but-obscured-its-connection-to-a-wealthy-donor/

  2. “The Art Institute of Chicago has three copies of Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic work “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa”in its collection and one of them has been removed from storage and is back on display in the museum until Jan 6, 2025.” 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 🖼️ 🌊 #art #JapaneseArt #Chicago #ArtInstituteOfChicago #KatsushikaHokusai #Museums

    kottke.org/24/09/hokusais-the-

  3. I really miss going to big art museums like the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. When we lived in Milwaukee, it was so easy to go to the art museum and just get lost in there, moving from one gallery to the next, soaking in the beauty. It was a wonderful way to spend the day....

    #ArtInstituteOfChicago #MilwaukeeArtMuseum #artliveshere

  4. #Bales2023FilmChallenge by @bales1181

    May 18, 2023: Someone appreciates art

    “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986)

    Filmed on location, Ferris Bueller and the gang head to the Art Institute of Chicago, where they admire art, hold hands with a line of children, and engage in self-reflection and discovery.

    #FerrisBuellersDayOff #MatthewBroderick #AlanRuck #MiaSara #JohnHughes #InternationalMuseumDay #FerrisBueller #ArtInstituteOfChicago #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon @film

  5. Today's Flick photo with the most hits: this still life by Fantin-Latour, in the Art Institute, Chicago.

    It was the sugar bowl, for me 🤩

    #FantinLatour #artinstituteofchicago #StillLife #painting #oils

  6. Katsushika Hokusai, Pages from the illustrated book "Panoramic Views along the Banks of the Sumida River (Ehon Sumidagawa ryogan ichiran)", 1801 #katsushikahokusai #artinstituteofchicago artic.edu/artworks/33262/

  7. Kitagawa Utamaro, Hour of the Hare [6am] (U no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki"), 1789 #kitagawautamaro #artinstituteofchicago artic.edu/artworks/23953/

  8. Kitagawa Utamaro, Hour of the Cock (Tori no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)", 1789 #artinstituteofchicago #kitagawautamaro artic.edu/artworks/23973/

  9. Today's Flick photo with the most hits was taken in Chicago, at the Art Institute. It shows Judith (detail) raising the sword to decapitate a sleeping Holofernes. It was painted in 1540, by Van Hamassen.

    #VanHamassen #ArtInstituteofChicago #painting #BiblicalStory #Judith #Holofernes