Spanning more than three decades, the gift brings works addressing displacement, human rights, and environmental justice to Northwestern’s art collection The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has received a major gift of fourteen photographs by internationally acclaimed artist Fazal Sheikh, given by the artist in honor of Interim President and […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, announces that Kathleen Bickford Berzock will retire from her position as Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs in June 2026. The Block is immensely grateful for Berzock’s extraordinary contributions to the museum and to Northwestern. Berzock arrived at the University in January 2014, having spent eighteen years as […]
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This winter, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents two exhibitions drawn from recent museum acquisitions of photographic portfolios. The exhibitions Hamdia Traoré’s Des marabouts de Djenné and Muslim Portraiture in Mali and Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years After the Gold King Mine Spill will be on […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has received a major gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation: 201 black-and-white photographs by the artist team Shunk-Kender and photographer Harry Shunk, documenting some of the most transformative moments in postwar art. This is the largest single gift of vintage photographic prints ever received by the museum […]
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In late September 2025, members of The Block Museum of Art’s Board of Advisors traveled to New York and New Haven for two days of art-filled experiences, conversation, and connection. Led by Lisa Corrin, The Block’s Ellen Philips Katz Executive Director, the weekend offered participants a glimpse into the museum’s national network of artists, alumni, […]
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Lisa Corrin, Ellen Philips Katz Executive Director of The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, is pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to the museum’s Board of Advisors and new leadership roles for three current members. The new Board members joining The Block Board of Advisors this fall include Julie Johnson […]
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Fall 2025 exhibition debuts transformative Frankenthaler Foundation gift in dialogue with museum collection. This fall, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, on view September 17–December 14, 2025. The exhibition explores how artists have used printmaking—and works on paper more broadly—as a site […]
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Project highlights Block Cinema’s growing role as a center for media research and discovery at Northwestern University. The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has received a Basic Preservation Grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) to support the restoration and preservation of four rare films by independent Kentucky animator Ed Counts (1946–2009). […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is proud to announce the national tour of it takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig, the largest institutional exhibition to date of the artist’s work. The exhibition will open at its first touring venue, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University in […]
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A New Drop-In Space for Art, Reflection, and Connection Opens This September This fall, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University invites visitors to experience art a little differently—with a couch, a cup of coffee, and just one artwork at a time. Launching September 2025 and running throughout the fall and winter quarters, The […]
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