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

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Orange wall containing explanation of “Dissident Sisters” exhibition and three black-and-white photos

The Block Museum highlights political activism, protest in new exhibition ‘Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism, 1968-72’

October 8, 2024

The Block Museum’s latest exhibition, “Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism, 1968-72,” captures the spirit and solidarity of American protest through photographs by Brooklyn photographer...

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 Black man sits on a bench to the side of a brick wall on which white letters read, “Stop white people from killing us” and “action.” The image is in black and white.

“A Site of Struggle” brings historical context to anti-Black violence

January 30, 2022

Featuring about 65 works of art, Block Museum’s latest exhibit, “A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence” highlights depictions of anti-Black violence from the 1890s to 2013. The...

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...

“I got in 1 little graffiti arrest & my mom got scared...but my dad lost it when me & the homey didn't take community service seriously” by Pat Phillips. Each week, a different member of Block selects one artwork from the museum’s collection and guides a discussion on how the artists use different media to communicate themes related to “Just Mercy.”

Through “Mercy in the Museum” discussion series, Block Museum explores intersections of social justice in art

November 4, 2020

The Block Museum of Art is offering a virtual discussions series based on One Book One Northwestern selection “Just Mercy,” exploring themes of justice, racism, inequality, gender and mass incarceration....

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