On a recent Monday afternoon, The Block Cinema team and a handful of scholars from across Northwestern gathered in the empty auditorium to screen the film Paydirt (1981), a little-seen film by director Penny Allen about Oregon winemakers who grow marijuana to ease financial strain. The event was part of a series of weekly research […]
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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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The Block Museum of Art’s exhibition Up Is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio, is the result of remarkable partnerships including a collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives. The Chicago Film Archives have been working over ten years to archive, house and preserve the films of Mort and Millie Goldsholl. […]
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