News: Zachary Cahill Appointed as Co-editor of Afterall
Last month, artist and writer Zachary Cahill was appointed to Afterall’s editorial board as one of the co-editors. Afterall is an arts journal published by Central Saint Martins College of Art and...
View ArticleReview: Carved, Cast, Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways/Smart Museum of Art
RECOMMENDED “Carved, Cast, Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways” plays to the museum’s strengths in depth and breadth of visual and cultural material, transforming the entire museum into an inquiry into “the...
View ArticleNews: Upcoming Free Days at Twenty-one Chicago Museums
Winter can be a dreary month, with all its slushy snow, bitter cold, and flamboyantly merry couples. So if the skating rink in Millennium Park is causing your seasonal affective disorder to spike you...
View ArticleNews: Christie’s to Auction Ruth Horwich’s Collection
Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and John Chamberlain are a few names from Ruth Horwich’s collection featured in the upcoming First Open sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s in New York on...
View ArticleReview: Objects and Voices/Smart Museum of Art
RECOMMENDED This show is meant to celebrate the Smart’s fortieth anniversary, but it actually amounts to a fresh rethinking of the collection and museum practices altogether. The spaces have been...
View ArticleNews: Smart Museum Director to Step Down
Anthony Hirschel, who has served as the director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago for a decade, has announced that he will be stepping down from his position effective October 9....
View ArticleOpportunity Knocks, and Knocking: The State of the Arts in Hyde Park
By Luke A. Fidler, Ph.D. candidate, Art History In 1967, a group of students from Hyde Park High School performed a musical piece called “Opportunity Please Knock” together with members of the...
View ArticleReview: Conversations with the Collection: Memory/Smart Museum of Art
RECOMMENDED On the occasion of the University of Chicago’s 125th anniversary, the Smart Museum of Art has compiled an exhibition of objects from its collection spanning three millennia that explore the...
View ArticleReview: Expressionist Impulses/Smart Museum of Art
RECOMMENDED Raw, emotional and distorted, the Expressionist movement brought a subjective perspective of the world to the surface of the canvas. Although this style of art has historically been seen as...
View ArticleReview: To See in Black and White/Smart Museum of Art
RECOMMENDED Over forty photographs from the Smart’s own collection prove that a small exhibition can be a unique and wide-ranging survey. This show, related to the larger exhibition of Expressionism on...
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