Exhibitions
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Please join us at The Smart Museum of Art this winter for our current exhibitions Theaster Gates: Unto Thee and Smart to the Core: Wise to Power, on view through February 22, 2026. The Thresholds lobby installation is on view through July 26, 2026.
Theaster Gates -
African Still Life #3: A Tribute to Patric McCoy and Marva Jolly
September 23, 2025 - July 5, 2026
Presented as an open-storage museum cabinet, African Still Life #3: A Tribute to Patric McCoy and Marva Jolly is a site-specific installation offered as part of the Museum's Threshold Lobby Series. Introduced in conjunction with the exhibition Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, this installation deepens Gates's ongoing investigation of rituals of accumulation, redemption, and relational aesthetics.
Sculpture Garden
Vera and A. D. Elden Sculpture Garden
The outdoor sculpture garden features work by Scott Burton, Jene Highstein, Richard Hunt, Arnaldo Pomodoro, and Richard Serra.