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Fifth-Grade Class Among 17 Curators for Smart Museum Exhibit

By Sam Cholke | January 26, 2015 5:26am
 The Smart Museum of Art has asked 17 guest curators to create the "Objects and Voices" exhibit.
Objects and Voices Exhibit
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HYDE PARK — The Smart Museum of Art has turned over curating its next show to 17 guest curators, including a group of fifth-graders.

The “Objects and Voices” exhibit opening on Feb. 12 will combine the curatorial efforts of 17 individuals or groups to try to reflect the 40-year history of the museum at 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.

Fifth-grade students from Beasley Academic Center have tried to find new ways to display the work of four South Side artists for their mini exhibit, “Visual Elements of Narrative.”

A University of Chicago graduate student has chosen to use a never-before displayed painting by Wassily Kandinsky in an exhibit about art historians’ role in distinguishing the real works by an artist from the fakes.

Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has pulled together 125 years of work for a mini-exhibit on representations of death and the body called “The Naked and the Dead.”

The 17 mini-exhibits will run through June 14 as part of the “Objects and Voices” exhibit.

Admission is free.

The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursdays.

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