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Exhibition Year: 2002

Reflections of Beauty: Late Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints in the Smart Museum Collection

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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This exhibition addressed the widespread societal transformation, engendered by Japan’s new openness to the outside world during the nineteenth century…
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Sacred Fragments: Magic, Mystery, and Religion in the Ancient World

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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Featuring Greek, Roman, and Early Christian antiquities from the Smart’s permanent collection and loans of prints and illustrated books from…
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Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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Drawing on the museum’s rich holdings of German art and a number of important loans, this exhibition examined how artists…
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The Virtuous Image: Korean Painting and Calligraphy from the Late Choson Dynasty in the Smart Museum of Art

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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This was the first public presentation of the Smart’s small, but select collection of Korean scholar and Buddhist paintings and…
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Outside In: Self-Taught Artists and Chicago

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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Organized from the Smart’s permanent collection and selected loans, this exhibition included works in a variety of media by Chicago…
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Face Off: Works by Chicago Photographers in the Smart Museum of Art’s Collection

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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The photographs in this exhibition shared a complex relationship with the human face. By exploring the camera’s ability to create…
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Nature, Myth, Allegory: Imagining Reality in the Nineteenth Century

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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Drawing from the Smart’s permanent collection, this intimate exhibition explored how nineteenth-century artists and their audiences drew on views of…
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Critical Mass

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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Critical Mass featured new commissions by Laurie Palmer, Robert Peters, Gregory Sholette, and Temporary Services (a four-member collective; Brett Bloom,…
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Performative Images

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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Performative Images included work by Robert Heinecken, Adrian Piper, Robert Smithson, and Francesca Woodman. This was the third in a…
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The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 4:49 AM
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This exhibition featured a suite of thirty-three landscape paintings (1977–1978) created through a unique synthesis of Western and traditional Chinese…
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