Interested in quality exhibits and programs in the fine arts outside Peoria?

   
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Milwaukee Art Museum
Nares: Moves
through October 6, 2019

Illinois State Museum --
​Springfield

URGENT CARE: Stuck in that Awkward Stage between Birth and Death
This exhibition presents a 50-year survey celebrating the career of Thomas Skomski, one of Illinois’s finest sculptors
​to September 29, 2019
                                                                          

Art Institute of Chicago

Manet and Modern Beauty
May 26 to September 8, 2019

The first Art Institute exhibition devoted exclusively to Édouard Manet in over 50 years focuses on the transformation of the artist’s style in his later years.
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image: Edouard Manet, Woman Reading, 1880-1881, oil on canvas; Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. & Mrs. Larned Colburn Memorial Collection

Saint Louis Art Museum

Poetics of the Everyday: Amateur Photography, 1890–1970
through August 25, 2019

Unknown; Untitled (rear view mirror), c.1960; gelatin silver print; image: 2 5/8 × 3 3/4 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of John R. and Teenuh M. Foster 296:2018