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The Daily Northwestern

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


Leslie Ureña (Graduate School ‘09) is the assistant curator of photographs at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. She was recently appointed to the position because of her extensive background in art history.

A portrait of success

April 7, 2016

A&E Growing up in a Dominican neighborhood in Manhattan, Leslie Ureña (Graduate School ‘09) said she spent weekends accompanying her older siblings to New York City’s famous museums. She never...

Block Museum of Art will display these two artifacts, a Crowned Buddha Shakyamuni statue and Thangka of Four-Armed Mahakala depiction, along with more than 40 others when the new exhibition opens Tuesday.

Block Museum exhibition features Kashmiri artifacts

January 7, 2015

An 8th-century brass sculpture with copper and silver inlay, a masterpiece of technical workmanship, sits in the middle of an empty room. The display isn’t located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

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