Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China Fri. Sep. 18th, 2026 - 5:46 AM - 5:46 AM This exhibition was the first to comprehensively consider the outpouring of photo-based art that has taken place in China since… Learn more
Medieval Art and Medievalisms Fri. Sep. 18th, 2026 - 5:46 AM - 5:46 AM From the Early Christian material culture of Egypt and the Eastern Roman empire and the devotional art of Gothic Europe… Learn more
Smart Collecting: A Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration Fri. Sep. 18th, 2026 - 5:46 AM - 5:46 AM For thirty years, the Smart Museum of Art has been a focal point for the visual arts at the University… Learn more
Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco Fri. Sep. 18th, 2026 - 5:46 AM - 5:46 AM As western “Jazz Age” mores and styles jostled with traditional Japanese values of tranquility and harmony, the reign of Emperor… Learn more
Incisive Vision: The Prints of James Abbott McNeill Whistler Fri. Sep. 18th, 2026 - 5:46 AM - 5:46 AM Active in England and France, the American-born painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century… Learn more
The Uses of Art in Renaissance Italy Fri. Sep. 18th, 2026 - 5:46 AM - 5:46 AM Drawing principally on the Smart’s permanent collection, The Uses of Art in Renaissance Italy considered the daily life of strikingly… Learn more
Illuminations: Sculpting with Light Fri. Sep. 18th, 2026 - 5:46 AM - 5:46 AM This exhibition examined three distinct moments in which American artists devised innovative ways to use this elemental, immaterial medium; including… Learn more