The Smart will be closed July 14 - September 22
Free and open to the public
Organized by several UChicago students, this exhibition explores the eclectic range of sources and precedents that served as inspiration for nineteenth-century artists in France.
This exhibition of abstract paintings and works on paper from the 1940s and 1950s serves as a primary source for a University of Chicago Art History course.
Presented on the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, this exhibition immerses visitors in the distinct textures and speeds of everyday life that arose—and have lingered stubbornly—in the wake of revolutionary upheaval.
This exhibition investigates the emotional possibility of material in works by Auguste Rodin and Bruce Nauman.
Emmanuel Pratt blends art, architecture, and urban agriculture to transform the Smart Museum's threshold.
This exhibition mixes works from across eras, cultures, and media to question the ways we occupy and perceive the built environment.
A crowd-sourced activist installation and project by artist, designer, and Pussyhat Project co-founder Jayna Zweiman
Organized by teens in our summer museums and public art program, this exhibition invites you into a dream, a stream of consciousness that encapsulates snippets of African American history and art.
This exhibition traces the shifting parameters of classicism from antiquity to the early 20th century
Exhibition explores the ways in which leading Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell used concrete as an actual material and artistic motif in the late 1960s and early 1970s.