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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


The 50-year celebration of the festival featured films and shorts by female filmmakers and directors.

Block Museum and Gene Siskel Film Center celebrate 50th anniversary of the Films by Women/Chicago ’74 festival

September 29, 2024

When visiting the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago two years ago, Michael Metzger, who works at the Block Museum of Art, said he saw a poster in the lobby about the Films by Women/Chicago ’74...

Block Museum Student Associates learn about “Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology,” one of the Block’s Winter Quarter exhibitions that runs between Jan. 26 and July 7.

The Block Museum encourages innovation and contemplation in new Winter Quarter exhibitions

January 28, 2024

With a welcome sign flickering between the words “block” and “look,” the Block Museum of Art reopened for the Winter Quarter on Jan. 26, with three new exhibitions: “Actions for the Earth: Art,...

The Block hosted a discussion over a lithograph from its collection of curated pieces related thematically to “Crying in H Mart,” this year’s selection from One Book One Northwestern.

Block hosts discussion on artwork ‘Noah at the Table’ from ‘Crying in H Mart’ collection

January 19, 2024

In “Noah at the Table,” Max Kahn explores the complexities of family, identity and love through a lithograph of a young boy having a meal. The tactile and colorful elements offer a playful perspective...

The photograph featured in Thursday’s talk is part of a virtual “Crying in H Mart” collection from the Block Museum.

Exploring family through art: Block holds talk on photo in ‘Crying in H Mart’ collection

October 17, 2023

The Block Museum held a virtual talk Thursday on Roland L. Freeman’s photograph “Combing Hair, Amoke Alayoe and Her Children, Silver Spring, Maryland, June 1978,” which explores love, family, identity...

The Block Museum’s exhibit “Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera” is open to the public from Sept. 20 to Dec. 3.

Photographer Rosalie Favell spotlights Indigenous artists in Block Museum exhibit

October 11, 2023

Through her decade-long collection of more than 500 black-and-white portraits, Métis photographer Rosalie Favell showcases fellow Indigenous artists, detailing a diverse community of painters, dancers,...

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