September 21, 2023
– February 04, 2024
This exhibition examines the practice of poetry as a form of communication, linguistic innovation, political performance, and embodied presence—considering how poetry can be a lens for understanding humanity….
June 27, 2023
– August 06, 2023
This small, focused exhibition celebrates the work of Ted Stamm (1944–1984), an artist whose gregarious practice expanded abstract painting into his everyday life….
March 21, 2023
– February 04, 2024
Calling on the Past invites visitors to experience the Smart’s collection anew, through a sensory exploration of color, texture, and form….
February 23, 2023
– June 04, 2023
not all realisms addresses photography in the context of Africa’s long 1960s—amid resistance, revolution, new nationalist and transnational movements, and the stuff of daily life therein….
February 23, 2023
– July 09, 2023
The Metropol Drama proposes another way of looking at our aesthetic, economic, and emotional history—an amalgam we call “cosmopolitanism.”…
September 22, 2022
– January 08, 2023
This exhibition traces “the monochrome” as a fundamental if surprisingly expansive artistic practice….
September 22, 2022
– June 09, 2024
Haegue Yang’s newly commissioned artwork—the artist’s first large-scale installation in Chicago—dislodges venetian blinds from their typical function as window coverings to create a monumental white grid suspended in front of…
September 22, 2022
– January 08, 2023
The ongoing exhibition series Museum as Classroom materializes the connections between the Smart Museum’s collection and the intellectual life of the University of Chicago….
March 22, 2022
– June 26, 2022
How has the environment shaped artistic practice, and how can artistic form teach us to understand our local and planetary environment in new ways? Organized by the Feitler Center for…
February 15, 2022
– May 15, 2022
Featuring more than 85 paintings and works on paper, This House Is Mine centers Bob Thompson’s brief but prolific transatlantic career within expansive art historical narratives and ongoing dialogues about…