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Still from Sky Hopinka, “Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer”, 2019. Thursday, March 12, 2020 – Sunday, July 12, 2020. G369 and G370, Modern and Contemporary Galleries, Minneapolis Institute of Art. Organized by Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Block Museum receives large grant to plan exhibit made by Indigenous artists

February 4, 2021

Chicago art museums have often failed to reflect the diverse Indigenous community still living in the city, but a new grant hopes to change that. Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art announced it will...

Ceramic vases, among other African artifacts, are on display in “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Arts, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa.” The exhibition opens this Saturday and will be at The Block Museum of Art through July 21.

“Caravans of Gold” exhibition presents first-of-its-kind look into medieval African art, trade

January 23, 2019

To many involved in the art world, notions of exhibitions featuring “the medieval period” may conjure images of Byzantine crosses encrusted with jewels, European saints and castles featured in Gothic...

An atlas of maritime charts on display at the Block Museum of Art’s “Caravans of Gold,” an exhibit that features small fragments from Medieval Saharan trade routes alongside intact artworks from Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The exhibition recently received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Block Museum exhibit ‘Caravans of Gold’ receives federal grant, largest in museum history

October 18, 2018

A&E “Caravans of Gold,” a Block Museum exhibition that will debut this January, has received a $350,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities — the largest the museum has ever acquired....

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...

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