Chicago
Arts & Culture
The Artistry of Plastic Surgery
International Museum of Surgical Science · Gold Coast
About This Event
A yearlong series of rotating monthly exhibitions pairing surgical pioneers with contemporary artists around one real idea: surgeons and sculptors both spend their careers shaping the human form, just with different tools. Includes real, sobering history — how WWI and WWII surgeons had to become artists to reconstruct faces destroyed by combat. One of the odder, more memorable museum stops in the city.
