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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


The 50-year celebration of the festival featured films and shorts by female filmmakers and directors.

Block Museum and Gene Siskel Film Center celebrate 50th anniversary of the Films by Women/Chicago ’74 festival

September 29, 2024

When visiting the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago two years ago, Michael Metzger, who works at the Block Museum of Art, said he saw a poster in the lobby about the Films by Women/Chicago ’74...

LTE: An Open Letter from 171 Faculty — Do not ban protest at NU

LTE: An Open Letter from 171 Faculty — Do not ban protest at NU

April 24, 2024

Dear President Schill and Provost Hagerty, Northwestern’s University Mission declares its commitment to encourage debate; champion access, diversity and belonging; strengthen our community; and care...

Tan building with multicolored flags on top.

Artist Dario Robleto bridges the gap between science and empathy in his exhibition ‘The Heart’s Knowledge’

February 5, 2023

In a conversation Saturday afternoon in the McCormick Auditorium of Norris University Center, the Block Museum of Art’s Artist-at-Large Dario Robleto discussed the intersection between science and empathy...

Five film reels in storage

Block Museum’s ‘Araya’ showing kicks off Latin American women filmmaker cinema series

January 30, 2023

Moviegoers gathered Friday to watch “Araya,” the first of six films in the Block Museum of Art’s newest four-event Latin American women filmmaker series, “Working Images.” The evening event...

A theater full of people sitting in the dark watch a movie screen at the front of the room.

Block Museum hosts film screenings about Chicago neighborhoods

May 1, 2022

In her short film “Some Thingz Never Change: Monologues from a Stoop in Bronzeville,” artist Jazmine. set out to find a way for people to listen to others’ stories. In this case, the stories were...

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