The Smart Museum of Art will celebrate its 40th anniversary year with two major exhibitions that will transform the entire museum and an experimental gallery in the heart of the Smart for an engaged ...

“What is art for?” asks art historian Katharine Kuh in the introductory wall text of the Smart Museum’s ambitious rehang of their entire gallery space. The question was likely at least partly ...

[Photo: Michael Tropea Photography/Courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago] Across Chicago, where the foundation has its main office, there are artworks displayed from 29 of ...

“Why are these two pieces similar? Why are they even significant, if they can mean anything?” our overly-excited docent asked us on our private tour of the Smart’s new exhibit, Carved, Cast, Crumpled: ...

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (物之魅力：当代中国“材质艺术”) presents 48 provocative artworks from 26 of today’s leading Chinese artists. Using everyday materials in unconventional ways and ...

A top curator from Stanford University’s arts center has been named the new director of the Smart Museum. Alison Gass will be replacing Interim Director Bill Michel effective May 1, departing her ...

Next summer, to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellowships, the Smart Museum of Art will open an expansive multi-venue exhibition that will include the work of 28 MacArthur ...

The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art announced Tuesday a $5 million donation that matches the largest gift in its history and boosts the museum’s endowment by 25 percent, officials said.

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Friends of the University of Chicago often profess its humanities and social sciences have largely escaped postmodern infection. But no institution is immune, and recent developments at the David and ...

If you’ve ever been on a tour of an art museum, you’ve probably seen the same thing: A docent, usually an art expert, standing in front of a famous painting and rattling off facts about it. But what ...