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

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The Patrick G. and Shirley Ryan Center for the Musical Arts is one of the buildings that Northwestern theater students often perform in. Communication senior Carter Liebman published a blog this summer criticizing the theater department.

New Arts Circle website highlights Northwestern performances, exhibits

February 24, 2016

A&E Students, faculty and Evanston residents will now be able to discover all of Northwestern’s arts-related events on one website. The Arts Circle website, which launched last week, is a...

Charlotte Moorman plays her TV Cello, one of the best-known pieces of her non-traditional art. The Block Museum of Art put together an exhibition on Moorman and her contribution to the avant garde movement of the 1960’s.

Block exhibit first to feature performance artist Charlotte Moorman’s work

January 14, 2016

A&E The Block Museum of Art will present the first large-scale exhibition on 20th century musician and performance artist Charlotte Moorman — an artist who focused on the intersection between...

“Geof Oppenheimer: Big Boss and the Ecstasy of Pressures,” an exhibit at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, features a sculpture called “Civil/Evil.” Block Cinema is screening a series of films selected by Oppenheimer that explore issues related to the exhibit.

Block Cinema film series explores ideas about power and lack of privacy

October 21, 2015

A&E Harry Caul is a surveillance expert with an extreme job: eavesdropping on other people’s conversations. Caul is a character in “The Conversation,” which will be shown at the Block Museum...

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 7, 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...

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