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July 11, 2019 by nublockmuseum

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"This art relates to the leadership project/Y.O.U. to me because I am two different people at Y.O.U. than at home or say at school. It’s like I live in two different worlds. Y.O.U. lets me be me with no judgement from others whereas society does not." Nia W.

We love it when artworks in our collection make new friends. One of the highlights of our behind-the-scenes work at The Block involves loaning selections from the collection to colleague institutions who are building their own unique exhibitions. Our collection gains new meaning when placed in these contexts. This season we are thrilled to send our 1588 Goltzius print "Mars and Venus" off to the @smartmuseum where it is part of the exhibition "Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe". On view through June 13th.

We join with colleagues and artists across the city in remembering the life of Karl Wirsum (1939-2021), a founder of the Chicago Imagists and true Chicago original. Wirsum visited The Block in 2016, sharing stories about his work, and his hometown inspiration (... including frequenting Maxwell Street nightclubs with friend Ed Paschke to watch blues legends like Howlin' Wolf and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.)

Join us for "The Impasse of Blackness: Interrogating the Possibility of Resolution" a program of experimental film from the UK screening May 9 through 16, free online.

Opening today, we are proud to host A Bruising Gaze on a Faltering Landscape the 2021 Art Theory and Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition (May 6–June 21, 2021.)

This season The Block's student docents offer selections from the collection that resonate with them at this moment. ⁣This week Erin Claeys writes:

Thanks to @northwesternu for sharing this image of Joan Miro's Constellation (1971).

How do artworks talk to us… and to one another? And how can we learn to talk back? Join Northwestern undergraduates in The Block Museum Student Docent Program to consider these questions in a unique lunchtime series. Through half-hour discussion-based presentations, Northwestern docents from interdisciplinary fields of study will consider two works from the museum collection that have something to say to one another (and to us.)

How are @NorthwesternU students learning with the collection this quarter? Our galleries have always been classrooms at heart and we are excited to let them play that role! Throughout the quarter, in addition to virtual learning, we have been welcoming small classroom groups for close-looking experiences.

Free and open to all the Block Museum Campus Art Walk is a highlight for visitors and campus regulars alike. A audio guide to the walk has long been available via cell phone and on SoundCloud. This season we are excited to expand the audio guide to include two artworks that were repositioned after campus-wide construction projects necessitated their removal and storage.

Rikki Byrd, the 2020–21 Block Museum of Art Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, discusses her outdoor exhibition "Behold, Be Held" which uses exterior windows as a gallery to share artworks with themes of self-care, self-authorship, and community.

Join us for a special screening event: Cinéma Direct Action: 1960s Student Activism in Francophone Documentary

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