“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 of Art’s latest showing, The History of Perception, opened on January 9. More than just an exhibition, however, The History of Perception is course material: The various artistic ...

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This fall, in addition to its sculpture garden, the Smart Museum of Art is home to five dynamic new exhibits which range in subject from historic themes (Revolution Everyday), to current political ...

Theaster Gates has spent the better part of two decades saying yes to things most people would haul to the curb. Old glass slides gathering dust in a university storage room? He'll take them. Wooden ...

The West was trending in Japan 150 years ago. That might seem like a silly way to put it, but it’s also true. After two centuries of isolationist policy, Japan was forcibly opened up to foreign ...

The University of Chicago has received a $2.45 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. In its first phase, the project will focus on ...

It didn’t take former longtime Harker Heights library director Lisa Youngblood to resurface in an administrative capacity. The former 26-year director for the Stewart C. Meyer Harker Heights Public ...