One fateful day in the early 1980s, Brian Hieggelke, AB’83, MBA’84, wandered into the Smart Museum of Art “to see what it was all about.” The economics and business major had little to no experience ...

“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 ...

The Smart Museum at the University of Chicago has just unveiled plans for a major mid-career survey of the work of one of the city’s most famous artists, Theaster Gates. Under the working title “Unto ...

Arts reporter Katherine Chen discusses the artistic perspective of the Meiji period, on display in the Smart Museum’s spring exhibition. Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at the Smart Museum of ...

Lovers of sculpture who prefer clay to other materials have much to celebrate this month in Chicago, with a not-to-be-missed pair of shows at the Smart Museum of Art and the Art Institute, ...

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The artist, who has made a practice out of trafficking in "unwanted things," is having his first solo hometown exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art on University of Chicago’s campus.

Korean officials discovered the painting in the Smart Museum’s collection at the University of Chicago. It was stolen from a temple nearly 35 years ago. By Zachary Small An order of Buddhist monks in ...

NOLANVILLE — Nolanville’s Community Outreach Coordinator Roxanne Flores and other city officials welcomed visitors Monday to the SMART Museum to kick off a new chapter in its history. Monday, a grand ...