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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Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, has long been a vital center for Indigenous art. This winter, The Block will celebrate the region’s Indigenous creativity with a major exhibition, Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland (January 25-July 13, 2025).
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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 Tara Peters ’93 (’23 P), trustee, and Kim Vigue to the museum’s Board of Advisors. Both bring a wealth of experience in the arts and public service, furthering the museum’s mission as […]
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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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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $70,000. This grant will support the winter 2025 exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, a years-in-the-making project offering diverse perspectives of Chicagoland’s layered […]
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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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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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“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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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is honored to be amongst the 50 recipients of funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its Fall 2023 grant awardees. The $100,000 grant will support The Block’s 2025 exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/ Chicagoland, that will explore the Indigenous […]
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Not all audiences may realize that most theatrically screened films are not actually film at all. Outside of venues like art theaters – The Block included – and the occasional multiplex special occasions, most contemporary cinema presentations are digital projection rather than analog. As cinema has evolved, so too has the role of projectionist, and […]
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