Krannert Art Museum is lucky to have a Director that actually believes art should stimulate and provoke thought...and that's exactly what she does with the exhibitions I've seen there so far. This would be the local equivalent to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco ... cool social events and openings for a cross-generational and cross-cultural crowd. What I love most about KAM is that I've had some great conversations standing around the lobby of a show and there's no snotty art culture where people blather on about "high art" and how it's so much better than anything and everyone. They don't play those games here, even though this is the 2nd largest art institute in IL outside of the Chicago Art Institute. Impressive, yes? Pretentious, no.