Exhibitions and Events

Join percussionist and bandleader Tommy Carroll with fellow musicians Beau Barry, David Boykin, and Lyn Rye as they fill the museum’s Grand Staircase with their unique and powerful combination of improvised musical visions.

Join percussionist and bandleader Tommy Carroll with fellow musicians Beau Barry, David Boykin, and Lyn Rye as they fill the museum’s Grand Staircase with their unique and powerful combination of improvised musical visions.

Actor Vincent Piazza joins us at the museum to read poems inspired by works on view in Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Collection by Gabriele Tinti.

Gather in the galleries as Chicago’s Natya Dance Theatre amplifies the spirit of Raqib Shaw’s 21-panel painting Paradise Lost through the power of music and movement rooted in Bharata Natyam, one of India’s great classical dance forms.

The text of the 1857 Supreme Court decision denying US citizenship to people of African ancestry is transformed into a performance-based installation.

Join us to celebrate Día de Muertos with a performance by Mariachi Sirenas, Chicago’s first all-female mariachi group.

What do you dream about? Join us for a day of art making and activities inspired by dreams—the ones we have when we’re asleep as well as the hopes we have for our communities and futures.

Artist Nneka Kai transforms the textile galleries into an intimate space of care, recreating the ritual of Sunday hair-braiding sessions from her childhood—moments where the body and hair became tools of resistance and survival.