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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On the occasion of The Block’s presentation of The Great Farce, exhibition curator Janet Dees, sat down with artist Federico Solmi to discuss the creation and context of his work. What inspired you to make The Great Farce? I started working on this piece in 2016. When I came to America from Italy in 1999, […]
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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 announces “Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism, 1968–72“, an original exhibition drawn from the collection of The Block Museum and Northwestern University Libraries. The exhibition, on view from September 18 to December 1, 2024, showcases the documentary photography of Bev Grant, an American artist whose work […]
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While Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology will end its run at The Block in July, a newly installed piece of the exhibition will continue to bloom in front of the museum through the summer. Memory of Nature, a site-specific artwork by the Indonesian artist Arahmaiani, is a garden of native plants and […]
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In this guest post, Block Museum 2023-24 Graduate Interdisciplinary Fellow Madison Brown writes about the works on view in her exhibition A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography. A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography presents snapshots from The Block’s collection side-by-side with work by artists who have incorporated family photographs […]
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18 international artists and collectives look at the challenges of climate change in touring exhibition. In 2006, a major earthquake rocked the island of Java causing massive destruction and loss of life. The disaster inspired Indonesian artist Arahmaiani to work with local students, asking what was needed in their community in the face of such […]
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The Block Museum of Art presents the first major U.S. exhibition of decade-long “Facing the Camera” project When Rosalie Favell, a photo-based Métis artist from Canada, picked up her camera to document fellow Indigenous artists at a residency in 2008, she did not expect to begin a major international project. But by 2018, her “Facing […]
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Ashleigh Deosaran, a Northwestern doctoral student in Art History and curator of The Block Museum’s The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern exhibit knew early on that Ayé Aton’s painting Untitled (1976) would be a keystone of the exhibition. The piece came to The Block on loan from the collection […]
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In Spring 2023 The Block opened The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and […]
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