“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 ...

Curated by Alison Gass and Jennifer Carty, The Figure and the Ground is the first of three exhibits in the Smart Museum’s new series: “Expanding Narratives.” It charts the relationship between figure ...

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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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 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 ...