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Exhibition Year: 2003

Visual Mantras: Meditative Traditions in Japanese Buddhist Art

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
A mantra is broadly understood as a type of chant used to focus attention in Buddhist practice, but visual representations…
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Sea of Buddha

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
In 1995 after years of lobbying for permission, Hiroshi Sugimoto was allowed to photograph inside Kyoto’s famed thirteenth-century Buddhist temple,…
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Mid-Century American Abstraction: Master Works on Paper

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
Around 1940, as avant-garde art and artists increasingly flooded into the United States from war-torn Europe, American artists forged a…
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Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
Exhibition of small-scale terracotta maquettes reveals Arneson’s evolution as an artist and the development of his freewheeling creativity and prodigious…
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Material Identity: Prints by Robert Arneson

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
Presented in conjunction with the major touring exhibition Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson, this exhibition featured the less…
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Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
As part of an intensive twelve-week artist residency that began in November 2002, acclaimed Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey led twelve…
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Group Portrait

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
As part of the artist residency Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project, the twelve Chicago teenage participants curated this exhibition, featuring…
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The Painted Text: Picturing Narrative in European Art

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
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Featuring painting, sculpture, and works on paper from the Smart’s permanent collection as well as select loans, The Painted Text…
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Symbol & Substance: The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
Japan has long been credited with bringing the art of lacquer to its highest technical and aesthetic development. This exhibition…
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Mapping the Sacred: Nineteenth-Century Japanese Buddhist Prints

Wed. Sep. 16th, 2026 - 6:50 AM
- 6:50 AM
Principally drawn from materials gathered in Japan in the 1890s by Edmund Buckley, a professor of Comparative Religion at the…
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