After the Readymade Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 10:14 PM - 10:14 PM This intimate exhibition charts the history of the readymade, a particular strain of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art that takes manufactured… Learn more
Bingyi: Cascade Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 10:14 PM - 10:14 PM The Chinese-born artist Bingyi inaugurates the Threshold series with the specially commissioned Cascade, an enormous painting that fills the central… Learn more
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 10:14 PM - 10:14 PM Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the… Learn more
Anna Kunz: Eidolon Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 10:14 PM - 10:14 PM The first art-banner commission in the Smart Museum’s Threshold series is Ediolon, a large vinyl collage by Chicago-based artist Anna… Learn more
Darkness Revisited: A Collection of Private Pleasures Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 10:14 PM - 10:14 PM Organized by University of Chicago students, this intimate exhibition offers a look at the shadowed interiors and private introspections of… Learn more
Mid-Century: “Good Design” in Europe and America, 1850-1950 Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 10:14 PM - 10:14 PM Between 1850 and 1950, progressive artists, designers, and architects decisively reshaped the everyday world of objects…. Learn more
“People Wasn’t Made to Burn”: Ben Shahn and the Hickman Story Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 10:14 PM - 10:14 PM An exhibition of sixteen drawings by Ben Shahn poignantly record the story and trial of a deadly fire and murder… Learn more
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900 Thu. Sep. 17th, 2026 - 10:14 PM - 10:14 PM Organized by the National Gallery of Art, this exhibition reveals the private worlds of late nineteenth-century Europe through prints and… Learn more