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

The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern


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,...

A grey wall reads “Who Says, Who Show, What Counts: Thinking about History with the The Block’s Collection.” A person walks along the wall, away from the camera. A few frames of artwork are visible in the background.

The Block Museum’s fall exhibition “Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts” questions historical narratives

October 4, 2021

In 1990, artist Louise Lawler released “Who Says, Who Shows, Who Counts,” an exhibit of three wine glasses etched with the titular phrases commenting on exclusion and gatekeeping in the art world.  In...

'Paint the Eyes Softer' features local mummy and student research

‘Paint the Eyes Softer’ features local mummy and student research

January 17, 2018

A&E Essi Rönkkö was visiting the Styberg Library at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in October 2016 to check out a book about panel portraits when she stumbled across what she calls...

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