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Twenty-nine MacArthur Fellows featured in Toward Common Cause, a multi-site exhibition organized by the Smart Museum of Art.
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Catch three Toward Common Cause exhibitions organized by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with Arts + Public Life, the Newberry Library, and MoCP. Now on view across Chicago »
Make art using materials and tools that you might already have around home or in your recycling bin. Join in a virtual Family Day »
Staff at the Feitler Center are available to support teaching and research at the University of Chicago. Start a conversation with us »
The objects in our collection support academic and artistic study, inspire new ideas, and foster reflection and conversation by our diverse audiences. Explore the collection online »
Unyimeabasi Udoh, a Chicago-based artist and graphic designer, and Leslie M. Wilson, the Smart Museum’s Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts (2019–2021), discuss Unyimeabasi's art practice and approach to creating the look of the exhibition not all realisms: photography in africa in the long 1960s.
Undergraduate Research Associate Serin Lee takes a closer look at the photography by Ernest Cole in the Smart Museum’s collection.
The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago is scheduled to open to the public on April 8, 2021, offering timed reservations to visit the special exhibition Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Public Media Institute, and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art present a year-long series of experimental audio performances from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a performance artist, writer, activist, and MacArthur Fellow, class of 1991.
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