The Smart will be closed July 14 - September 22
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This groundbreaking exhibition documented major trends in current Chinese experimental art (shiyan meishu), which is characterized by a strong desire to explore new territories in artistic expression
This exhibition addressed contemporary portraiture as the nexus of three issues: visuality, location, and identity.
Weimar Bodies brought together art works and other kinds of images to explore the range of popular ideas about the human body in Weimar Germany
Blunt Object offered a humorous and fresh look at contemporary sculpture.
This intimate exhibition showcased twentieth-century works acquired by the Smart Museum since 1996
This exhibition presented work by nine students graduating from the University of Chicago’s Midway Studios.
Two-sided painting by German artist Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944)
This exhibition explored the range and depth of African artistic sensibility through 75 works of sub-Saharan art dating from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries.
Part of the Smart Museum’s alumni artists series, this was an exhibition of paintings by Jerome Carlin (Ph.D. 156, Sociology).
Archibald Knox (1864–1933) is one of the most influential designers in modern British history.