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The Metropol Drama

February 23, 2023 - July 9, 2023

Free

The things we call art can, at their best, provide a way to peek a sideways glance at the emotions behind someone else’s human experience. In this relating to others—be they friends, family, strangers, or the citizens of a different time and place—facts and truth go only so far.

The Metropol Drama proposes another way of looking at our aesthetic, economic, and emotional history—one that it rooted in the contradictions of interaction that produce peoples and states that are smudged and complex, hybrid and tragic. Having gone by many names, today we call this social and economic amalgam “cosmopolitanism.” The term can best be thought of as a kind of shorthand for a sensibility where the exchange of capital, ideas, and people have provided fertile ground and vulnerabilities for ways of feeling and living.

This exhibition is a case study in how the things we call art speak to and embody values. It presents a terrain comprised of traditionally-defined works of art and artifacts, as well as objects such as legal documents and currencies—forms of negotiation between peoples. The diversity of objects within the exhibition space reflects the ways in which we form the complex subjectivities of selfhood across cultures since the time of the ancients up until the present moment within ourselves.

Details

Start:
February 23, 2023
End:
July 9, 2023
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/the-metropol-drama/

Other

Artists
Jacques Callot, Chen Xiaoyun, Robert Crumb, Regina Jose Galindo, John Miller, Pablo Picasso, Aleksandr Rodchenko, August Sander, among others.
Curators
Geof Oppenheimer, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Visual Arts, The University of Chicago
Artwork Medium
None
Event Type
None

Venue

Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637 United States
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