Even the most casual observer is probably acquainted with the Classical style, that aesthetic anchored in the ancient Greek and Roman traditions of harmony and reason. Think portraits featuring the...Read more

Alison Gass appointed director of Smart Museum of Art

Alison Gass, a leading curator of contemporary art and a senior leader at university museums, has been appointed the director of the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art ...Read more

Article features Smart Museum-Neubauer Collegium collaboration and Logan Center gallery

Spearheaded by Chicago Shakespeare Theater , Chicago recently launched a yearlong international arts festival honoring William Shakespeare, celebrating 400 years since his death in 1616. Shakespeare 400 Chicago features 850...Read more

This fall, visitors to the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art will be greeted by color. Vibrant swaths of red, green and yellow reach up the walls of the...Read more

Zells' gift of Water Nymphs complements other holdings by surrealists

For the second time in four months, the Smart Museum of Art is featuring artworks from its permanent collection throughout its entire space. Following the success of the fall show...Read more

Groups host year of anniversary events, exhibitions and performances

Article discusses Smart Museum’s wide-ranging sculpture exhibition for its 40th anniversary

Article discusses Smart Museum’s ambitious ‘total art makeover’ for its 40th anniversary show

The 2014-15 season brings two major exhibitions, an experimental gallery

Smart Museum of Art to host free family program as part of UChicago's 'Envisioning China' festival

Last year Jennifer Cohen and Marin Sarvé-Tarr, two UChicago students who had taken art history courses together, encountered each other doing dissertation research in a historical archive in Paris. They...Read more

To learn more visit http://envisioningchina.uchicago.edu UChicago Arts presents “Envisioning China,” a festival of arts and culture at the University of Chicago featuring more than 40 events and exhibitions. From February...Read more

UChicago’s five-month “Envisioning China” festival will open in February with two Smart Museum exhibitions focused on Chinese opera. Curated by Profs. Judith Zeitlin of the University of Chicago and Yuhang...Read more

Acclaimed exhibition makes only Midwest stop on North American tour