Smart Salon: Meiji Architecture and the Built Environment Wed. Apr. 3rd, 2024 - 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Join Meiji Modern co-curator Chelsea Foxwell and visiting scholar Erez Golani Solomon for a discussion on the built environment and… Learn more
Smart Salon: Meiji Dress and Self Identity Thu. May. 16th, 2024 - 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Join Meiji Modern co-curator Chelsea Foxwell and librarian Ayako Yoshimura for an exploration of the intricacies of dress and identity… Learn more
Book Launch + Conversation: The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige Thu. Mar. 20th, 2025 - 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Join the Hyde Park Art Center and the Smart Museum of Art in celebrating the first major publication to focus… Learn more
Smart Salon: Temptation and Pacific Geopolitics in the 19th century Tue. Apr. 16th, 2024 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Virtual event Kimura Kaishu’s 1907 hanging scroll Temptation inspires a virtual roundtable discussion about the events surrounding the US annexation… Learn more
Smart Salon: 50 Years, Academic Art Museums from Here Thu. Nov. 14th, 2024 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM What makes an academic art museum unique? How has the concept of it changed over time, and what are its… Learn more
The Museum as Cenotaph or Time-Machine? Thoughts on Art, History, and Institutions in Our Nearsighted Moment, with Dr. Julia Alexander Tue. Mar. 4th, 2025 - 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Join the Smart Museum of Art and the Nicholson Center for British Studies for the lecture “The Museum as Cenotaph… Learn more
Smart Salon X: Democracy and the Power of the Image Thu. Oct. 17th, 2024 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Visual journalists and editors with the Chicago Tribune join the Smart Museum of Art x the Chicago Center on Democracy… Learn more
Smart Salon: Art and Infinity, with Dr. W.J.T. Mitchell Tue. Jan. 28th, 2025 - 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Fascination with the infinite seems hardwired in human consciousness, finding expression in art and literature, science and religion. But not… Learn more
Smart Salon: Dieu Donné Thu. May. 15th, 2025 - 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Founded in 1976 by Susan Gosin and Bruce Wineberg to explore the untapped potential of hand papermaking as an art… Learn more