Event Year: 2019
What makes a self-portrait a self-portrait, and how have artists deployed photography in the making of self-portraits? Artworks in Smart…
Artist Leonardo Drew manipulates materials like wood, rusted iron, and mud to create imposing sculptures that still maintain connections to…
In this two-part program presented in collaboration with the University of Chicago Library’s Special Collections Research Center and the Poetry…
Organized by artist Bethany Collins, this four-hour performance in Mies van der Rohe’s “God Box” presents a chronological retelling of…
with Zackary Drucker, Chase Joynt, and Nicole Morse Who we are is profoundly shaped by our relationships with others, particularly…
U.K. sound artist Jon Davies (Kepla) and New York based-media theorist DeForrest Brown Jr. perform Substantia Nigra, the concluding opus…
Manet & Mokgosi – Oysters/Butter/Bread Take a drawing voyage through two Chicago art museums this fall and winter. In the…
Join the Smart Museum of Art, the Overture Council at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and EXPO CHICAGO for an evening…
Hong-Kong-based artist Samson Young’s exhibition at the Smart Museum draws inspiration from the utopic ideals of Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair,…
Join us for an interactive, back-to-school gathering to celebrate the start of another year of Amplify. Share food and a…