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Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads! In our April Smart Reads selection, Love is the Way, Bishop Michael Curry offers an inspirational road map for living the way of…
Lust, Love, and Loss Opening Talk Join Andrea Bayer and Jacqueline Musacchio as they reflect on the themes of Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe and their echoes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s…
Marking the end of the Smart Museum’s exhibition Take Care, and situated one year after Chicago’s stay-at-home order, “Take Care, Be Well” is a day-long series of live-streamed experiences and recorded content created by artists,…
Please join the Open Practice Committee and the Smart Museum of Art for a virtual artist lecture by Mierle Laderman Ukeles in which she will highlight a number of her past and ongoing works including…
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the global turn has shifted art history and contemporary curatorial practices to consider global-scale issues. Less an attempt to study the whole world, the global is a methodology…
Given the complexities and varying modes of care, how might we create sites of care that speak to our evolving needs and circumstances? Join artists engaged with in ℅: Black women, a creative place keeping…
Since the early 1990s, Erika Rothenberg has been creating satirical greeting cards that exposed the private and public maladies of American life. In connection with the exhibition Take Care, this participatory conversation considers Rothenberg’s humorous…
Join renowned Blues musician and educator Katherine Davis for an interactive virtual workshop that explores the creative ecology of public housing by way of dance songs from the 1960s. Inspired by images from the Smart…
Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads! In our first 2021 Smart Reads selection, The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob…
How does contemporary art intersect with South, Southeast, and East Asia? How is it defined and contested across these regions? How do new geographic formations and constellations—global to region to state—provide alternative methodologies for studying…