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Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month! Each Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around…
Public art on the University of Chicago campus is a fascinating, spontaneous experience, with some sculptures boldly claiming open spaces and others tucked unexpectedly between buildings. This one-hour tour covers a small sample of the…
A closing-weekend tour of Classicisms. Join co-curator Anne Leonard for a tour that traces the shifting parameters of this aesthetic ideal across media, culture, and time. Free, but space is very limited. Advance registration is…
Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month! Each Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around…
Join Classicisms co-curator Larry Norman for the talk “Fauvel, between Classicism and Romanticism.” The in-gallery talk will uncover how romantic and neo-classical ideas interact within Louis Dupré’s 1819 painting Portrait of M. Fauvel, the French…
Prepare for finals amidst inspiring art in the Smart’s galleries. Power outlets, wi-fi, free pizza, coffee, and other late-night study necessities on hand. This event is part of a series of special study sessions: on…
Join literary historian Elisabeth Décultot for the talk “Does neoclassicism exist? History of an aesthetic concept” This lecture explores the history of notions of classicism and neoclassicism according to several national traditions (French, English, German,…
This daylong event considers how sites of culture can function as spaces of belonging. Organized by the Smart’s 2016/17 Interpreters in Residence, The Belonging Collective, and inspired by Conversations with the Collection: Belonging, the day…
The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, Office of LGBTQ Student Life, and the Leather Archives & Museum are partnering for a special two-part program that explores classicism in relation to the history of…
Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month! Each Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around…