What happens when we look at modernist art through the lens of horror? This fall, The Block Museum of Art invites visitors to explore that question in a collection-based exhibition created in collaboration with students in Northwestern’s Spring 2025 Art History seminar “Horror Modernism.” Taught by Art History professor Jessy Bell in partnership with The […]
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Fall 2025 exhibition debuts transformative Frankenthaler Foundation gift in dialogue with museum collection. This fall, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, on view September 17–December 14, 2025. The exhibition explores how artists have used printmaking—and works on paper more broadly—as a site […]
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On May 28, 2025, the Block Museum of Art hosted an evening devoted to the power of poetry, story, and language as part of the exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak / Chicagoland. In a program introduced by Erin Northington, Associate Director of Campus and Community Education and Engagement, and moderated by Northwestern English professor […]
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The Block Museum of Art has acquired Sharp Tongue: Used to Cut Deep (2024), a 70 x 70-inch acrylic painting by Northern Cheyenne artist Jordan Ann Craig in conjunction with the exhibition it takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig (January 25-April 13, 2015) Craig’s practice is deeply rooted in […]
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On February 1, 2025, The Block Museum of Art welcomed a full house of visitors to a sunlit Galvin Recital Hall to celebrate the opening of Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak. Three of the exhibition’s collaborating anchor artists—Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), and […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University proudly announces it takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig, the first major solo exhibition in the Midwest region of work by Jordan Ann Craig (Northern Cheyenne). Opening January 25, 2025, this exhibition will feature seven large-scale abstract paintings, all displayed together […]
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The Block is thrilled to host Jacqueline Lopez as the museum’s 2024-2025 graduate interdisciplinary fellow. Jacqueline is a PhD student in the Department of History at Northwestern, where she is also a Mellon fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies. She has held professional roles in museums, archives, and other cultural institutions, where her work focused […]
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On November 13th, The Block Museum of Art was thrilled to welcome artist Cara Romero to Northwestern’s campus. Romero’s visit was a joyful chapter in a months-long collaboration with The Block that began in April, when two of her photographs, TV Indians (2017) and Amber Morningstar (2018), were acquired for The Block’s permanent collection through […]
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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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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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