Smart Reads
Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads!
Smart Reads returns in 2023 with monthly gatherings and an updated format. Launched in fall 2020 with the aim of fostering care within our community during an unprecedented time of collective social anxiety and separation, Smart Reads delves into a variety of issues through small group conversations around books and essays.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required.
2023 SMART READS SCHEDULE
January 25, 6–7:30 pm
The Theater and its Double by Antonin Artaud
February 22, 6–7:30 pm
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
March 29, 6–7:30 pm
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
April 26, 6–7:30 pm
Home is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo
May 31, 6–7:30 pm
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
June 28, 6–7:30 pm
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
July 26, 6–7:30 pm
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
August 23, 6–7:30 pm
We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
September 27, 6–7:30 pm
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
October 25, 6–7:30 pm
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
November 29, 6–7:30 pm
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
December 6, 6–7:30 pm
Year in books recap and reflection
Archive
Previous Book selections
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
May–June 2022
Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden
March 2022
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air by Søren Kierkegaard
December 2021
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
October 2021
The Undercommons by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
June 2021
Love is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry
April 2021
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
February 2021
All About Love by bell hooks
November 2020