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Parsing Puns, Politics and Power: Bailey Pekar reflects on her internship research project

As Block Museum 2020-2021 intern Bailey Pekar completes her research with us she shares more about the work that she has undertaken this year and how it is informing her own work as a journalist. The Block has a collection of 367 Daumier lithographs. About 107 of those are missing English translations and 166 of […]

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Collection Spotlight: Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, Honoré Daumier

Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)Title: Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834 (Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834)Date: 1834Medium: Lithograph on white wove paperDimensions:14 3/8 x 21 5/8 inchesCredit line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Gift of Sidney and Vivian Kaplan, 2002.3.18 The central figure of Honoré Daumier’s Rue Transnonain, le 15 […]

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How do artworks talk to us… and to one another? And how can we learn to talk back? Join Northwestern undergraduates in The Block Museum Student Docent Program to consider these questions in a unique lunchtime series. Through half-hour discussion-based presentations, Northwestern docents from interdisciplinary fields of study will consider two works from the museum collection that have something to say to one another (and to us.)
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How do artworks talk to us… and to one another? And how can we learn to talk back? Join Northwestern undergraduates in The Block Museum Student Docent Program to consider these questions in a unique lunchtime series. Through half-hour discussion-based presentations, Northwestern docents from interdisciplinary fields of study will consider two works from the museum collection that have something to say to one another (and to us.)
We are thrilled to join with @NorthwesternEng to welcome back Artist-at-Large @dariorobleto for an online conversation April 8. RSVP at Link in Bio
This season The Block's student docents offer selections that resonate with them at this moment. ⁣This week Rory Tsapayi writes:
Block Museum student docent Fiona Asokacitta (History and Art History, Anthropology '2021) studies the work of Dyanita Singh in a recent research visit to the museum. Fiona's research will contribute to our Fall 2021 exhibition "Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection"
In this month's #collectionspotlight Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, considers the resonance of Emmanuel Bakary Daou’s bold conceptual work "Le temps Ebola."
Reverse Image: Prints by Enrique Chagoya and Murry DePillars
How do artworks talk to us… and to one another? And how can we learn to talk back? Join Northwestern undergraduates in The Block Museum Student Docent Program to consider these questions in a unique lunchtime series. Through half-hour discussion-based presentations, Northwestern docents from interdisciplinary fields of study will consider two works from the museum collection that have something to say to one another (and to us.)
The season The Block's student docents offer selections that resonate with them at this moment. ⁣This week Lennart Nielsen writes:
Tonight is the night! The Block congratulates all of the participants in the @northwesternu Dance Marathon @nunm benefitting @CompasstoCare and @EvanstonForever #HopeTravels #NUDM. You've always been bigger than the tent!

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