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An Atlanta art institution announced that it will be closing its doors.... Just a week before a new semester was supposed to start on Oct. 2, The Institute sent an email saying that on Sept. 30, it would be permanently closed. The Art Institute of Atlanta isn’t the only school shutting down. The entire institute system is closing. School officials state that although there have been many successful alumni, the academic operations will stop after current students complete their classes this term. A series of events over the past 10 years, both external and internal to the campus operations has...

The Art Institute of Chicago fired more than 150 volunteers and suspended its decades-old docent program after the famed museum hired a woke consulting firm that advised the cultural institution to ditch the 'wealthy white' guides and prioritize 'equity and diversity.' Even worse, the mostly elderly docents, who are well-versed on the the exhibits at nearly 150-year-old museum on Lake Michigan, were terminated by email on Sept 3 because it wanted to 'rebuild our program from the ground up.' The museum - featured prominently in the 1986 hit film Ferris Beuller's Day Off - hired The Equity Project, a Colorado-based...

A chronological view of the Impressionist art of the Art Institute of Chicago, done to Trevor Pinnock's Scarlatti Sonata in E major - K.38.