Exhibitions Archived in: 2000

Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

March 14 – September 11, 2000

This exploration of medieval and Renaissance devotional practices featured a wide range of objects, including painted altarpieces, portable shrines, reliquaries, liturgical furnishings, and illuminated manuscripts. Drawn from the Museum's permanent collection and several public collections, Pious Journeys investigated the critical role played by material culture in early devotion. Like The... more »

Transforming Images: The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

April 14 – June 11, 2000

This groundbreaking exhibition of Native American art featured ledger book drawings, an illustrated diary and calendar, and hide and muslin paintings made by Kiowa artist Silver Horn (1860–1940). Silver Horn's life spanned the tumultuous shift in traditional Plains Indian life and culture at the end of the century. He recorded... more »

Ecologies: Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman

July 6 – August 27, 2000

Over the past three decades many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work. Their projects – which include land art, community-based projects, ephemeral actions, and installations – often have required new strategies of art-making and have activated unconventional sites. To explore some current manifestations of these interests, the Smart... more »

Martin Kippenberger: Hotel Drawings and The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "America"

September 10 – November 5, 2000

Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997) was one of the most complex and prolific German artists of his generation. Kippenberger took the artists, the art world, contemporary society, and the self for subject matter, and his work offers contradictory impressions of these subjects: at once absurd, hopeful, tragic, charming and bleak. In a... more »

Early Modernist German Drawings and Watercolors

September 12 – December 10, 2000

This intimate exhibition presented master drawings and watercolors by some of the leading German modernists of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Drawn from the Smart Museum's collection and selected loans, these works by Lovis Corinth, George Groxz, Erich Heckel, Kähe Kollwitz, and Emil Nolde, among others, exemplify... more »

"Canceled": Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

November 19, 2000 – January 7, 2001

"Canceled" was an unconventional exhibition. Its subject was not an artists or a group of art works, but another exhibition that was never realized: It's Me (Beijing, 1998), a group show curated by Leng Lin that was canceled by Chinese officials the day before its scheduled opening. Through a striking... more »

Ages of Bronze: European Sculpture 1500-1900

September 26 – December 17, 2000

This exhibition investigated the uses of bronze and bronze casting in Europe across four centuries. Drawn from the Smart Museum's collection, the works on view explored three principal themes: the Italian Renaissance interest in ancient Greek and Roman bronzes, the production of copies that flourished in the baroque age with... more »

Bernard Meadows: Drawings from the Lazarof Collection

December 16, 2000 – April 1, 2001

This intimate exhibition highlighted the 1999 gift of over a dozen drawings and related sculptures by the modern British artist Bernard Meadows (born 1915) from the collection of Janice and Henri Lazarof. Meadows emerged after World War II as a member of the vanguard of British art, and his post-war... more »

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