Past Exhibitions : 2025
Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories
March 25, 2025 – July 13, 2025
Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories offers an updated presentation of the institution’s anniversary exhibition to explore the histories that have made up the Smart Museum over the last five decades. In honor of its anniversary, the Smart has commissioned four artists to create new works as interventions in the Museum’s and our shared histories.
Smart to the Core: Wise to Power
September 23, 2025 - July 26, 2026
Part I, September 23, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Part II, March 24, 2026 - July 26, 2026
Why and how do people form political communities? How does political society organize our economic lives - and vice versa? And how as individuals do we navigate society? Smart to the Core: Wise to Power examines these questions by integrating visual art with foundational texts of modern social and political thought spanning over three centuries.