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Hyde Park/Kenwood Families—come paint with ink on rice paper! Museum educator Erik Peterson from the Smart Museum of Art leads this in-person workshop exploring the work of Toward Common Cause exhibiting artist Xu Bing and…
Join exhibiting artist Jason Salavon for an in-person gallery talk reflecting on his 2002 work, Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1980s (normalized)—currently on display in Smart to the Core: Medium / Image—and his broader artistic practice….
Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu are internationally acclaimed artists who explore the natural and built environment, imagined spaces, and urban geography. Their artwork reveals the complex and overlapping systems that shape public spaces and the…
RESCHEDULED from October 28 due to inclement weather. This outdoor film screening presents work by established and emerging filmmakers that interweave the pressing concerns of climate change with racial, economic, ecological, and social justice. Inspired…
Join Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College, and Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art, for an in-gallery conversation about artist Gerhard Richter’s work, 7. Dez. 2014, that…
Join exhibiting artist Laura Letinsky for an in-gallery conversation about her work that is currently on display in the Smart Museum of Art’s group exhibition Smart to the Core: Medium / Image. Although Laura Letinsky…
This virtual broadcast features a series of artist talks from Amalia Mesa-Bains, Sandra Cisneros, Maria Varela, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Presented in conjunction with Toward Common Cause, these conversations or platicas engage in a variety of…
A virtual conversation with cultural and business leaders Rick Lowe and John W. Rogers, Jr. Join us for a discussion of Black wealth-building in Chicago, focusing on the challenges, gains, and opportunities being made by…
Guillermo Gómez-Peña returns to Chicago for his first LIVE and in-person performance since lockdown began. This new solo performance monologue features new writing responding to the multiple pandemias including rantings and confessions. This one-night event…
Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads! In the fall 2021 edition of Smart Reads, we reflect on Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, a book that is as…