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Shake your tail feathers during this family day at the Smart Museum of Art! Inspired by the many magnificent works featuring birds on view in Meiji Modern, create peacock feather masks and make a golden…
Organized by the Smart Museum of Art’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, this symposium highlights the interdisciplinary research and creative work of the 2023–2024 Smart Scholars cohort. This year the cohort has been researching photographic…
In conjunction with Meiji Modern at the Smart Museum of Art, please join us as leading scholars from the United States, Japan, and Great Britain engage in a wide-ranging discussion of prints, paintings, photographs, and…
In conjunction with Meiji Modern at the Smart Museum of Art, please join us as leading scholars from the United States, Japan, and Great Britain engage in a wide-ranging discussion of prints, paintings, photographs, and…
Experience a sonic journey through Meiji Modern during a live, in-gallery performance by Chicago-based experimental artist and composer Kikù Hibino. Utilizing analog modular synthesizers and modern digital audio technology, Kikù will bring to sonic life…
Virtual event Kimura Kaishu’s 1907 hanging scroll Temptation inspires a virtual roundtable discussion about the events surrounding the US annexation of Hawaii and the history of Japan-Hawaii relations. Join us for this virtual conversation with…
A Night of Japanese Storytelling with San’yūtei Ponta Join the Center for the East Asian Studies for an exciting evening of Japanese storytelling, presented in conjunction with Meiji Modern at the Smart Museum of Art….
Dive into the wonderful world of fish and fishing at the Smart Museum of Art. Get inspired by depictions of fish, fisherman, and the sea in artworks on display throughout the special exhibition Meiji Modern….
A live performance from Tatsu Aoki’s The MIYUMI Project illuminates the drum traditions of Japanese taiko and jazz. Since the band’s formation two decades ago, Aoki has forged an exceptional and inimitable Afro-Asian musical hybrid….
Join Meiji Modern co-curator Chelsea Foxwell and visiting scholar Erez Golani Solomon for a discussion on the built environment and the shifting architectural landscape of Meiji-era Japan. Following this gallery discussion, UChicago’s Architectural Studies program…