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Collection Talk: untitled photograph of the Lincoln Memorial, ca.1960s [Video]

Throughout 2022-23, a series of talks consider works from The Block’s collection that reckon with the history of slavery, white supremacy, symbols of nationhood, and social inequity. This online talk was held in connection with 2022–23 One Book One Northwestern (OBON) selection How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across […]

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Margeaux Rocco and Joely Simon on Ed Ruscha, Tseng Kwong Chi, and America through a Tourist’s Lens

How do artworks talk to us… and to one another? And how can we learn to talk back? Northwestern undergraduates in The Block Museum Student Docent Program considered these questions in a unique 2021 lunchtime Art Talks! series, pairing two works from the museum collection that have something to say to one another (and to us.) In the series, […]

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Artist Collaborations, Exhibition Stories

120,313 Nails Illustrate a Weighty American History [Video]

Thousands of visitors to the Block Museum of Art this Spring have had the opportunity to add a nail to the large scale installation The Nail That Sticks Up the Farthest…  by artist Kristine Aono.  This major project was mounted to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which ordered the war-time internment of more […]

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