“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 ...

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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Life As A Unity opened at the Smart Museum on September 21. This monographic exhibition of nearly 60 pieces—the first such monograph at the museum since 2005—highlights the natural and sociopolitical ...

You know who’s never had a big solo museum show in his own hometown? Strange as this sounds: Theaster Gates, the renowned, longtime Chicago artist, sculptor, community developer, collector, painter ...

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 exuberance of the Smart Museum exhibition Give the Drummer Some! was on vivid display during a Q&A with the artist at the start of May. The exhibit features Robert Earl Paige’s melodically ...

Four weeks until the opening of his new exhibition, and the artist Theaster Gates is at the Smart Museum, on the University of Chicago campus, helping fabricators install a work that includes many ...

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 ...