Category: scholarship

Collection Spotlight: Como te ven te tratan (How they see you, they treat you), Hector Duarte

Bynublockmuseum June 1, 2020 0 Comments
Artist: Hector Duarte (Mexican and American, born 1952)Title: Como te ven te tratan (How they see you, they treat you)Year: 2007Medium: Color linoleum cut on paperSize: 15 3/8 in x 11 1/4 inCredit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Molly Day and John Himmelfarb, 2007.15.3 “Over time it’s as if the barbed wire forms part of the person.” Quoted in a 2009...

“Caravans of Gold” exhibition publication receives 2020 Curatorial Award for Excellence

Bynublockmuseum April 29, 2020 0 Comments
In April 2020 the Association of Art Museum Curators announced the Block Museum exhibition publication Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa as a recipient of the 2020 Award for Excellence. The annual, peer-juried award recognizes curators from around the country for groundbreaking projects that have advanced new methodologies,...

“The Picture Is the Window”: Lynn Gumpert and Lisa Corrin on Abby Grey and intrepid art collecting [Audio]

Bynublockmuseum April 3, 2020 0 Comments
Consisting of more than 700 artworks, the Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art at New York University comprises the largest institutional holdings of Iranian, Turkish and Indian modern art in any American university museum.  This unparalleled historical resource was amassed by Abby Weed Grey (1902-1983), a self-described “dyed-in-the-wool...

Scholarship in Action: Undergraduates highlight their Block research at College Art Association conference

Bynublockmuseum February 24, 2020 0 Comments
Northwestern students share their "Progressive" vision for museum exhibition On February 14th, 2020, Northwestern University students Meghan Clare Considine, Emily Rose Andrey, Nicholas Liou, and Brianna Heath presented their ongoing research in a poster session at 108th College Art Association Annual Conference. Their poster "Caravans of Gold: Making a Progressive Web App Exhibition on Medieval...

‘Modernisms’ reveals artistic responses to the 20th-century’s ‘crisis in humanity’

Bynublockmuseum February 11, 2020 0 Comments
The Block Museum hosts rare look at Modernist art from Iran, Turkey, and India Visitors to The Block Museum of Art have an unprecedented opportunity to view 114 artworks from global artists during a period of rapid modernization with the exhibition, “Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection.” It is part of the museum’s season of Global...

Collection Spotlight: Peasant Couple Dancing, Sebald Beham

Bynublockmuseum February 3, 2020 0 Comments
Title: Peasant Couple DancingArtist: Sebald Beham (German, 1500–50)Year: 1522Medium: Engraving on paperDimensions: 3 1/4 in x 2 inCredit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, The Norman H. and Marie Louise Pritchard Collection,1985.2.99 In an image that is only the size of a couple of postage stamps, the sixteenth-century artist Sebald Beham creates a compelling...

“Histories that we’ve missed”: Jesse Lerner on Ism, Ism, Ism [Audio]

Bynublockmuseum November 27, 2019 0 Comments
Throughout its Fall 2019 season Block Cinema screened selected programs from Ism, Ism, Ism, a groundbreaking touring film series that offers the first comprehensive survey of Latin America’s vibrant experimental film history. Organized by filmmakers and curators Jesse Lerner and Luciano Piazza as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time II: LA/LA initiative, these programs featured key...

Exhibition Publication Now Available – Portrait of a Child: Historical and Scientific Studies of a Roman Egyptian Mummy

Bynublockmuseum November 18, 2019 0 Comments
Title: Portrait of a Child: Historical and Scientific Studies of a Roman Egyptian MummyContributors: Essi Rönkkö (Editor and Contributor), Taco Terpstra (Editor and Contributor), Marc Walton (Editor and Contributor), Victoria Cooley (Contributor), Caroline Cartwright (Contributor), Jonathan D. Almer (Contributor), Lorelei Corcoran (Contributor), Rachel C. Sabino (Contributor)Publication Date:...

Collection Spotlight: Skeeter, Catherine Opie

Bynublockmuseum November 6, 2019 0 Comments
Title: Skeeter Artist: Catherine Opie (American, born 1961) Date: 1993 Medium: Chromogenic print Edition: 5 of 8 Dimensions: 40 x 30 in. Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Armyan Bernstein and Christine Meleo Bernstein, 2018.9. Reproduced with permission from the artist. Skeeter; Sunflowers; Sunrise “A lot of my friends were fighting AIDS or dying. And...

Meet Block Museum Fellow Simran Bhalla

Bynublockmuseum October 24, 2019 0 Comments
In September 2019 the Block Museum welcomed Simran Bhalla as a 2019-2020 graduate fellow.  Block Museum Graduate Fellowships are offered to two graduate students annually, one from Art History and one from any department within the Graduate School.  Graduate Fellows are integral members of the museum staff and support projects through exhibition and collection research,...