Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (American, 1933–1993)Title: Moon ShotDate: 1969Medium: 8 color lithographs on black paperCredit Line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Marilyn Arnold Palley and Reese Palley, 1996.45.10–17 In 1962, James E. Webb, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), noted in a memorandum that “…we should consider […]
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Rebecca Fons is always excited to get a call from the Block Cinema team. Fons is Director of Programming at the Gene Siskel Film Center, and usually calls from either of Block Cinema’s co-programmers foreshadow exciting collaborations; in 2022, they anticipated Tsai Ming-liang’s visit to The Block and artist talk plus screening series at the […]
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Ordinarily, students in the McCormick School of Engineering’s Design Thinking and Communication course build functional projects for an external client with real-world applicability – a treadmill for wheelchair athletes, for example. But students in a Winter 2024 offering of the course built something a little less ordinary: small-scale printing presses inspired by the mechanics of […]
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In late February, Block Museum Student Associates were again invited to take part in the Art Institute’s annual University Partner Fest, a daylong event where students from the museum’s partner institutions are invited to explore the galleries, meet their peers, and learn from faculty and museum professionals across institutions. As part of the Fest, student […]
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The Block Museum of Art is happy to announce that it is one of 10 new recipients of works through the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s Frankenthaler Prints Initiative, an ongoing program for university-affiliated art museums that reflects the foundation’s commitment to supporting undergraduate and graduate education in the visual arts and art history. Each of the […]
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In October 2023, Northwestern Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Professor Licheng Gu was at AMC Newcity 14 for a movie. The renowned Chicagoland film festival Asian Pop-up Cinema was celebrating the closing night of its season, with the South Korean musical-comedy-thriller Killing Romance (2023). Both its star, the late Lee Sun-kyun, and its director, […]
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On February 21, over 100 Northwestern University student-athletes, coaches, staff, and community partners gathered in Walter Athletics Center for an evening of lively conversation. The evening’s subject–not upcoming games or strategy–but art. The Block Museum of Art and Northwestern Athletics were proud to host the special event, which was called “Reframe” in acknowledgment of the […]
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In January 2024, The Block was excited to welcome Christiana Castillo to its team as Manager of Public Programs. A poet, gardener and, of course, lover of the arts, Christiana brings a rich background in community engagement and public health to her work with The Block. We sat down with Christiana to learn more about […]
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“This collaboration between The Block and the Libraries to improve the research experience highlights Northwestern’s strengths as a research institution, allowing for the incredible breadth of holdings across our Evanston campus to be available for scholarly discovery.” Kathleen Hagerty, Provost Northwestern students and faculty now have one more research tool available at their fingertips. The […]
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In a pair of selections from the artist’s Motion series, photographer Laura Aguilar’s body becomes a feature of the landscapes around her. Pictured alongside other women, her downturned face and nude body, angled away from the camera, appear almost topographical – luminous, human features frozen into the landscapes around them and detailed by the shadows […]
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