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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


 Irfana Majumdar made her directorial debut with "Shankar’s Fairies" in 2021.

Asian Pop-Up Cinema partners with The Block, features screening of ‘Shankar’s Fairies’

April 11, 2024

Shot over a 35-day span, “Shankar’s Fairies,” directed by Irfana Majumdar and written by her mother Nita Kumar, is a bittersweet, unembellished glimpse into Kumar’s childhood in 1960s Lucknow,...

The Block Museum of Art.

The Block Museum of Art unveils its latest exhibition, “A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence”

January 12, 2022

The Block Museum presented its latest exhibit highlighting Black artists’ creations and commentary on anti-Black violence at Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting.  Featuring works dating back to...

The Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr. Artist Fox Maxy screened three of his short films in an event hosted by the museum.

Artist Fox Maxy discusses land and Indigenous people in his short films

November 11, 2020

Artist Fox Maxy screened three of his short films to an online audience last week through an event organized by The Block Museum of Art and NU’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. In...

Film still from “Fatma 75.”

Block Museum offers a feminist perspective to Arab histories through film series

October 28, 2020

The Block Museum of Art hosted “Liberating History: Arab Feminisms and Mediated Pasts” to celebrate Arab women's filmmaking and present a feminist perspective to past Arab histories. The online...

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...

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