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Contemporary art expert Janet Dees joins Block Museum

August 27, 2015

Contemporary art expert Janet Dees will join Northwestern's Block Museum of Art this fall as a curator, the museum announced last week. Dees, who joins the museum Sept. 21, will focus on modern and...

Julie Green’s exhibit, “The Last Supper: 600 Plates Illustrating the Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates,” opens Saturday at the Block Museum of Art. She began her project after reading a newspaper article about a death row inmate’s final meal.

Block Museum exhibit raises questions about the morality of capital punishment

May 6, 2015

A&E Julie Green has painted nearly 50 plates of death row inmates’ final meals for the past 15 years straight, and she has no plans to stop — until capital punishment is abolished in the United...

Block Museum exhibit travels to NYU’s Grey Art Gallery

February 4, 2015

A&E An exhibit that premiered at the Block Museum of Art has traveled to a New York University gallery as part of a partnership between the two schools' art museums. Block’s 2014 exhibit, "The...

“An Evening With Toulouse-Lautrec” is introduced Wednesday night at the Block Museum of Art. The exhibit was curated by a Northwestern art history class through Fall 2014.

Northwestern art history students curate Block Museum exhibit

January 22, 2015

The Block Museum of Art held an event Wednesday evening organized around a student-curated exhibit of works by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The exhibit is titled “Toulouse-Lautrec Prints:...

Block Museum reopens with exhibits about society, class

January 20, 2014

 After flooding prompted a temporary closure in August, the Block Museum of Art reopened this weekend with two new exhibitions, which explore class and society in America during the 1930s. "The Left...

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