Block Cinema, Museum News, Programs & Events

Rediscovering Karen Sperling: Block Cinema Presents the First Public Screening of “The Waiting Room” in Over 50 Years

On April 3, 2025 Block Cinema will host a historic screening of The Waiting Room (1974), marking its first public showing in over five decades. This rare cinematic event will take place at the Wirtz Center Chicago in Abbott Hall on Northwestern University’s Downtown Chicago campus, coinciding with the 2025 Society for Cinema and Media […]

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Exhibition Stories, Museum News

The Great Farce: Federico Solmi’s immersive, satirical American history on view at The Block

Past and present, history and myth, reality and spectacle are conflated and distorted in Federico Solmi’s The Great Farce (2017), a monumental media work in the collection of Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art, on view this fall. The museum will mount its first full presentation of Solmi’s installation with the exhibition Federico Solmi: The Great Farce […]

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Collection News, Museum News

The Block among national museums to receive works from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Prints Initiative

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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Museum News, Partnerships

NU Athletics and Block Museum partner to “Reframe” art and athletics

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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Collection News, Museum News

The Block Museum and NU Libraries partner to improve research access to Northwestern’s art collection

“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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