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October 9, 2026 - January 24, 2027 About the Exhibition Megan Williamson has spent more than a decade building an invented world out of paint: a circus that exists nowhere but on her canvases, populated by riders, acrobats, horses, and the unglamorous labor that precedes every performance. Damn Everything but the Circus, installed in these two galleries, traces that world as it has developed, moving from early rehearsal scenes rendered in tightly compressed space toward the l

October 2, 2026 - January 10, 2027 Opening Reception on Friday, October 2, 5-8 PM | Awards Presented at 6:00 PM Sponsored by MEET OUR JUROR Mark Pascale is a lithographer who has been active in the Chicago art world for over forty years, as a curator, researcher, and teacher. Currently, he is the Janet and Craig Duchossois Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago, and concurrently Senior Lecturer in Print Media at the School of the Art

The Swope Art Museum has launched its Bloomberg Connects app, a free digital guide to cultural organizations around the world. This...