Nancy Chen, University of Chicago master’s degree student in Art History & Creative Writing, provides a gallery talk about Xu Bing’s installation 1st Class to Smart Museum visitors at the opening reception of the exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China on Saturday February 8, 2020.

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Smart ways to make art a part of your Welcome to the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. University of Chicago experience Conveniently located on the north FALL IN LOVE WITH ART AT THE SMART LEAD TOURS + ENGAGEMENTS edge of campus and reflecting The Smart Museum of Art is a site for rigorous Museum Educators serve as gallery teachers for the intellectual, social, and artistic inquiry and exchange that encourages the a range of audiences and facilitate programs, interests of our community, examination of complex issues through the including family days, collaborative arts lens of art objects and artistic practice. The partnerships, and public programs addressing the Smart is a dynamic site of museum opened in 1974 and collects works of a range of critical contemporary issues. Keep student-led discourse and action. art—more than 15,000 objects and counting—to an eye on the “Docent Program” section of the support academic and artistic study, inspire Smart Museum’s employment webpage for future Through strong community and new ideas, and provide a setting for reflection opportunities. scholarly partnerships, the Museum and conversation by our diverse audiences. You Contact Jason Pallas, Manager of Community Engagement can start exploring the museum’s collection & Arts Learning, [email protected]. incorporates diverse ideas, identities, online and throughout the academic year you and experiences into its exhibitions can discover opportunities to fall in love with art through our online calendar of upcoming events INTERNSHIPS + RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES and collections, academic initiatives, and exhibitions. The Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry and public programming. From promotes object-centered research and a creative commission series and ART TO LIVE WITH in-depth engagement with the museum’s an annual art loan program to An art loan program, exclusively for University collections and exhibitions through a multitude of Chicago students, Art to Live With offers the of programs, including a range of unique paid internships and object-driven unique opportunity to borrow original works student opportunities. Paid internships and research opportunities through the of art to display in their dorm rooms. Each fall research opportunities can be on-site, remote, students will be able to select from specially or a combination of both. Keep an eye out Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, designated artworks in the Smart Museum’s Art for upcoming student opportunities on our the Smart offers UChicago students to Live With collection, including new acquisitions employment webpage. Additionally, the proposed by students in our Student Advisory museum’s study room provides public access to a distinct social, creative, and Committee. Works will be loaned at no cost for our collection. professional platform unlike anything the duration of the academic year. Program on Contact Aaron Wilder, Academic Engagement hold 2020-21. Coordinator, [email protected]. else on campus. Admission to the Contact Emily Edwards, Manager, Museum Affairs and Art Smart Museum of Art is always free to Live With, [email protected]. ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE and open to all. STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE WORK WITH US Every quarter, the Smart’s Student Advisory Join our frontline staff! Students on our guest Committee, an exclusive group of students that services team serve as ambassadors of the act as the voice of the student body at the Smart Smart Museum and help create a welcoming Museum, presents creative and social programs and comfortable space every day for everyone. and a dedicated study night in the galleries at the Share the Smart’s art with the local community start of the reading period. Working with curators and make art a welcome part of everyone’s life. and arts organizers on the Committee, the Smart Check for upcoming student positions on our partners with UChicago students and local artists employment webpage. to develop original performances inspired by Contact Oscar Sanchez, Guest Services & Operations artwork on view. The Committee also functions Supervisor, [email protected]. as a professional development organization for students interested in museum careers and helps acquire works for the Art to Live With collection. smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Contact Erik Peterson, Manager of Family Programs & Student Engagement, [email protected]. SmartMuseum @SmartUChicago 2020–2021 EXHIBITIONS For an up-to-date schedule, visit smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions.

TAKE CARE Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, independence movements, TOWARD COMMON CAUSE: Fall 2020–Winter 2021 who embraced spirituality as part of resistance to oppressive regimes in ART, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND THE their aesthetic process, Wieser the face of seemingly MACARTHUR FELLOWS PROGRAM broadens their ideals, using spatial insurmountable odds and great AT 40 installations to consider the personal risk, and the hard work of Summer–Fall 2021 coexistence of abstraction and sustaining momentum to move physiological experience. beyond revolutionary euphoria and Generations features hand-painted into the slow, arduous, uneven, and and patterned ceramics, carved often tumultuous efforts to build wooden sculptures, tiled mirrored more just societies. Bringing works, colored pencil and gold leaf together individual photographic drawings, and a new site-specific images, photographic publications, wallpaper spliced together from and other material means through imagery of historic sculpture and which these photographic realisms architecture as well as images from were produced and circulated, the Sylvia Sleigh, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub and Sons Stephen, Phillip and Paul, 1973. Smart Museum of popular culture and found project includes works by Ernest Art, Gift of Leon Golub and Nancy Spero. photographs. This exhibition of Cole, Malick Sidibé, Peter Magubane, geometric abstractions, surfaces, John Brett Cohen, Paul Strand, What does it mean to care for and references challenges us to look James Barnor, Henri Cartier-Bresson, something, someone, or ourselves? at ourselves looking and invites us to and more. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Well 35°58’16”N - What does it mean to not care at all? have a new experience of the Smart 106°5’21”W (Santa Clara Pueblo, NM), 2014. Pictured: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle. Courtesy of the Caring can be a survival strategy, Museum’s modernist lobby and LUST, LOVE, AND LOSS IN artist. political tool, form of labor, and a gallery spaces. This will be Wieser’s RENAISSANCE EUROPE means of sustaining oneself. It can first solo-traveling museum Winter 2021 Presented in conjunction with the be driven by moral imperative or exhibition in the United States and 40th anniversary of the MacArthur necessity. Whether an accumulation her first project in Chicago. Fellows Program, this multi-site of small gestures, a singular bold act, exhibition uses the idea of “the or, even, strategic indifference, THE LIGHT FANTASTIC commons” to explore the current expressions of care are what makes Winter–Spring 2021 socio-political moment, in which us human. These are the spaces and The desire to bring light to the questions of inclusion, exclusion, moments of tending and mending, darkest time of the year is as old as ownership, and rights of access are with ourselves and our broader human culture. The Light Fantastic constantly being challenged across social worlds. Drawing generously will draw from the creativity of the Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, Daphne a wide array of human endeavors. from the Smart Museum’s Fleeing from Apollo, Circa 1500. Smart Museum of entire University of Chicago Art, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Toward Common Cause utilizes the permanent collection, this large- community to design lightweight MacArthur Fellows Program as an scale group exhibition seeks to pavilions, gates, and lanterns defined Passion, violence, and virtue emerge intellectual commons and features unpack matters of care from the by strings of holiday lights that will in this exhibition as fundamental, new and recontextualized work by personal to the collective. The be installed on campus this winter. intertwined elements in the artworks more than two dozen visual artists artworks in Take Care draw on a At the beginning of the Fall 2020 of Renaissance Europe. The objects who have been named Fellows since range of themes—from familial quarter, an open call will be made to on view—created for private homes the award program’s founding in relations and societal obligations, to University of Chicago students, and personal consumption—offer 1981. With programming beginning immersive networks and ecologies faculty, staff, and community glimpses into the lives of artists and Summer 2020, the on-site Summer- of care—examining how systems of partners to submit designs for the their audiences. Painters, printmakers, Fall 2021 exhibition is organized by maintenance, sustenance, and light structures. Between ten and and craftsmen, inspired by popular the Smart Museum in dialogue with storytelling can bring about twenty designs will be chosen for literary sources including Ovid’s institutions across Chicago and will collective action. fabrication and sparsely installed Metamorphoses, Boccaccio’s be presented in multiple venues and across the campus. Each of the Decameron, and the Bible, interpret- neighborhoods throughout the city. CLAUDIA WIESER: GENERATIONS structures will be fabricated in the ed their stories for everyday settings. Fall 2020 same way from ½” PVC pipe – like Domestic objects such as painted VERA AND A.D. ELDEN SCULPTURE giant Tinker Toys – and covered with panels and ceramics celebrated GARDEN strings of lights. This tight design momentous life events, including Ongoing constraint will ensure that all the marriage and childbirth, yet their pavilions make sense together. narratives were not overtly festive. Imagery frequently recounted the NOT ALL REALISMS dire fates of mismatched lovers, Winter 2021 revealing societal anxieties about fidelity and paternity. Large-scale oil paintings echo these ideas in grander formats, highlighting the conse- quences of moral trespass. Male and female protagonists alike suffer fatal repercussions for their transgressive longings. Meanwhile, in engravings Richard Serra, Seattle Right Angles Propped, 1991. Smart Museum of Art, Gift of the Doris F. Sternberg and woodcuts, even happy and family. Photo by Sarah Larson. passionate couples face the inexorable progression of time. Ernest Cole, From House of Bondage, 1960s. Smart Situated between the Smart and Art Claudia Wieser, Untitled, 2017. Image courtesy Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Lester and Viewers of these prints, poring over History buildings, the sculpture the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Betty Guttman. and Aspen. images of hapless lovers pursued by garden offers a modern take on the menacing skeletons, confronted the classic quadrangles found around not all realisms features photography Generations is a seven-year survey end of earthly pleasures and their the University of Chicago’s campus. in and of South Africa, Ghana, and of the distinctive, multi-faceted own mortality. Taken together, the The courtyard is home to Mali in the long 1960s—amid practice of Berlin-based artist works of art on display illuminate the contemporary sculptures by notable resistance, revolution, new nationalist Claudia Wieser. Drawing upon the many ways that objects lay at the American and European artists Scott and transnational movements, and history of art, design and heart of cultural rituals and consum- Burton, Jene Highstein, Richard Hunt, the stuff of daily life therein. Bridging architecture—from the democratic ing desires through which relation- Arnaldo Pomodoro, and Richard the division between studio stage of ancient Roman forums to ships were formed, celebrated, and Serra. photography and reportage the esoteric principles of Bauhaus extinguished. pervasive in the analysis of this work, craftsmanship—Wieser’s practice this project connects studio and carefully stitches together a street to critically consider the field constellation of elements. Influenced of competing and contested realisms by the modernism of Hilma af Klint, in 1960s Africa. It addresses