Past Exhibitions : 2021
Museum as Classroom
April 9–June 13, 2021
Organized by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, this presentation features clusters of artworks that were selected for individual courses across disciplines at the University of Chicago—ranging from “Woodblock Prints of Japan” to “Queer Theory and Queer Practice.”
Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe
April 8–June 13, 2021
Passion, violence, and virtue emerge in this exhibition as fundamental, intertwined elements in the artworks of Renaissance Europe.
Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40
Presented in multiple venues and neighborhoods throughout Chicago
Presented in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program, this multi-site exhibition uses the idea of “the commons” to explore the current socio-political moment, in which questions of inclusion, exclusion, ownership, and rights of access are constantly being challenged across a wide array of human endeavors.
Smart to the Core: Medium / Image
September 23–December 12, 2021
Presented as primary source material for the University of Chicago Core sequence "Media Aesthetics," this exhibition seeks to interrogate the ethical, political, and epistemological debates about images and perception.