Contents Board and Committees, 2003-2004 Volume 15,2003-2004 Photography and reproduction credits: Report of the Chairman and Director Copyright © 2005 by The David and Alfred Front cover, frontispiece, and pages 9,19, 21, 22, Smart Museum of Art, The University of 25, 27, 28, 31, 33-35,37, 39, 41, 43: photography Mission Statement Chicago, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue, by Tom van Eynde. Chicago, Illinois, 60637- All rights reserved. http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Pages 47-50, 53-56, 57 (FIGURES 2 and 3), 58-61, ISSN: 1099-2413 65, 67, 69: photography by Jim Newberry. Into Practice: Contemporary Artists and Research Universities Editor: Stephanie Smith Page 57 (FIGURE 1): photography by Katherine Laura Letinsky and Stephanie Smith Publication Assistant: Rachel Furnari Mino. Design: Froeter Design Company, Inc. Printing: Lowitz & Sons, Chicago Page 63: photography by Lloyd de Grane. Acquisitions Frontispiece: © for works by E.L. Kirchner by Ingeborg and Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern. Exhibitions Page 19: courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Publications Page 27: courtesy of Joel-Peter Witkin and Catherine Edelman Gallery. Public Programs Page 30: courtesy ofWalsh Gallery. Contributor and Member Programs Every effort has been made to contact rights holders for all reproductions. Additional rights Sources of Support holders please contact the Smart Museum. Operating Statement Smart Museum Staff 4 Board and Committees, 2003-2004 Report of the Chairman and Director Smart Museum Board of Governors T. Kimball Brooker Marshall J. Padorr Last year was an opportune time to reflect arts. Such programs also provide those outside enterprises took place behind the scenes, as John A. Bross Beatrice G. Perry on the Smart Museum of Art's progress as we the university community with access to the plans for the exhibition Between Past and celebrated its thirtieth anniversary year. The Richard Gray, Chairman Gay-Young Cho Elizabeth Plotnick intellectual resources of the institution while Future: New Photography and Video from China Elizabeth Helsinger, Vice Chair Phyllis Gordon Cohen Margot L. Pritzker season began on November 12,2003, when a new making it possible for students and faculty to entered their final stage. Co-curated by Wu Hung, Marion Wood Covey Laura Campbell Rhind chapter in the museum's growth was ushered in engage with the broader public. Inthis dynamic Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Marilynn B. Alsdorf Michael Cunningham Irmgard Hess Rosenberger, Life Member with a dinner honoring its most devoted friends role the Smart best fulfills its educational mis­ Professor of Art History at the University of Mrs. Edwin A. Bergman Robert G. Donnelley Brenda Shapiro and supporters (see p. 63). sion. Building on these ideals, the museum's Chicago and Consulting Curator at the Smart Joel Bernstein Gail M. Elden Joseph P. Shure That event was part of an ongoing process new strategic plan reinforces its core values: Museum, and Christopher Phillips, Curator at Russell Bowman Dr. Patricia Brett Erens John N. Stern, Life Member of examination and reflection. Careful planning education, ideas, scholarship, quality, intimacy, the International Center of Photography in New Susan O'Connor Davis Mrs. Owen Fairweather, Life Member Dorie Sternberg both guides and inspires dynamic institutional aesthetic vitality, and access. It also addresses York, Between Past and Future is a model for Robert G. Donnelley Joan E. Feitler Isabel C. Stewart growth, and during 2003-04 the Smart completed the Smart's need for expanded facilities and even collaboration at the curatorial and institutional Richard Elden Robert Feitler Dr. Bryan Traubert an ambitious new strategic plan. This initiative more robust endowments that will match itslevel levels. This major exhibition will be featured in Robert Feitler Joan S. Freehling Clarence S. Wilson Jr. built on the success of the previous ten-year plan, of ambition and sustain its success. our 2004-05 Bulletin: it opened at its New York Lorna C. Ferguson Stanley M. Freehling Karen G. Wilson which was created in 1997 with guidance from the At the Smart, we believe that engagement venues in June 2004 and at the Smart Museum Alan M. Fern, Life Member Marshall B. Front James Nowell Wood consulting firm McKinsey & Company. By the with original artworks is central to understand­ and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Sharon Flanagan lean Frumkin Jane Wright start of 2003, the Smart had achieved the goals it ing intellectual, social, and artistic ideas. Our in October 2004. Another example of collabo­ Stanley M. Freehling Susanne Ghez Mrs. George B. Young, Life Member had outlined in 1997. Injust six years, under the collections serve as a primary source for study ration was on view at the Smart in fall 2003. lack Halpern Adele B. Gidwitz, Life Member Helen Zell leadership of director Kimerly Rorschach and within courses and as subjects of new research. The paired exhibitions Hiroshi Sugimoto: Sea of loan W. Harris Isaac S. Goldman with the active involvement of its board and Temporary exhibitions and long-term displays Buddha and Visual Mantras: Meditative Traditions Neil Harris, Life Member Jean K. Goldman Education Advisory Committee staff, the museum had doubled its attendance enable us to contextualize the work of individual in Japanese Buddhism expanded each other's Mary Harvey (ex officio) Richard Gray and nearly tripled its budget, secured a major artists and explore broader themes as well. They interpretive possibilities: visitors could consider Reinhold Heller (ex officio) Mary Winton Green Diane Bloom endowment for art acquisitions, completed the also provide stable examples that educators from Sugimoto's contemporary photographs within the Randy L. Holgate Joyce Zeger Greenberg Maria Cecire $2 million Silver Anniversary capital campaign, the primary to the graduate level can rely on as context of formalism and conceptual art, or as William M. Landes Nathan M. Grossman Lydia Diamond renovated its current facilities, expanded its they develop their own curricula. This past year extensions and even manifestations of Japanese Kimerly Rorschach (ex officio) David C. Hilliard Eliza Duenow collections and educational programs, and sig­ 232 objects entered the collection, building on Buddhist thought. Inturn, Sugimoto's work Raymond Smart Doris B. Holleb Steve Gilbert nificantly raised its profile locally, nationally, the museum's many areas of strength. These elucidated the role of perception in traditional Joel Snyder Marshall M. Holleb David Hays and internationally. ranged from a hanging scroll by Chinese master Buddhist art from Japan. Organized by the Smart's John N. Stern loel Honigberg Dr. Marvin Hoffman In 2003-04 the Smart Museum, with the Qi Baishi, given byMarilynn B. Alsdorf in honor Curator Stephanie Smith and by Curatorial Intern Geoffrey Stone Ruth P. Horwich Julia Jack-Scott assistance of consultants Nancy L. Pressly and of Richard A. Born's twenty-fifth year as a curator and Ph.D. candidate Kris Ercums, respectively, Allen M. Turner (ex officio) Dr. James E. Jones Mark Johnson Associates, worked closely with members of the at the Smart, to Romare Bearden's 1975 collage these exhibitions involved University of Chicago Michael Wyatt Alan Koppel Sonya Malunda artistic, civic, local, and university communities Farewell in New Orleans, given by William M. faculty in related programs and coursework, and Dr. Mary S. Lawton Michelle Obama to craft institutional goals for the next five years. and Elisabeth Landes, to the Gedney Collection, were used actively by local elementary schools University of Chicago Visiting Julius Lewis Dan Peterman At one discussion, Neil Harris, board member the rare group of nineteenth-century photo­ in a variety of multi-visit programs. Committee on the Visual Arts Holly W. Madigan Bill Salvato and Professor of History at the University of graphs by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Bell This in-depth approach to programming Eloise W. Martin, Life Member Laura Senteno Chicago, proposed that the Smart seek to featured on pages 34-35- Many of these works extends to the Smart's school outreach programs. Allen M. Turner, Chairman Beatrice Cummings Mayer Carolyn Sullivan encourage "unexpected encounters," suggesting were donated to mark the Smart's thirtieth In 2003-04, the educators, parents, artists, and Thomas McCormick Mary Ellen Ziegler a role for the museum as a place where different anniversary, and we are grateful to those many University of Chicago students and administra­ Anne Abrons Mary M. McDonald, Life Member ideas and people can interact, both intellectually supporters who celebrated this occasion with tors who form the museum's Education Advisory Michael Alper Mrs. Ralph Mills Jr. and socially. As the University of Chicago's art gifts of art. A O highlights each of these works on Committee guided the Smart staff as they devel­ Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Life Member Paula Molner museum, the Smart is especially well positioned pages 18-33. The Smart now holds a collection oped a new sequence of multi-visit programs. Dorothy L. Baumgarten, Life Member Charles H. Mother to perform this role. Using its collection as a of nearly 9300 objects. Together, Art in Focus (3rd-4th grades), smART Robert H. Bergman Martin Hughes Nesbitt resource, its education, exhibition, and publi­ The exhibitions planned and presented in Explorers (5th grade), Art in the Making (6th grade), Joel Bernstein Muriel Kallis Newman cation programs involve faculty and students in 2003-04 illustrate how the museum approaches and Art in Context (7th-i2th grades) enable David L. Blumberg, Life Member Evelyn E. Padorr interdisciplinary activities focused on the visual its educational mission. One of last year's major young students to experience the museum and Report of the Chairman and Director 6 Mission Statement increase their knowledge of art as they advance Their contributions are listed on pages 64-69. As the art museum of the University of Chicago, the David from year to year.