On September 17th, 2016 the Block Museum will open the exhibition Keep the Shadow, Ere the Substance Fade: Mourning during the AIDS Crisis in the Katz Gallery. This unique exhibition curated by Block Museum fellow C.C. McKee, juxtaposes objects and artworks related to mourning from the Victorian Era and with those created during the AIDS crisis. […]
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Watch WTTW’s Chicago Tonight coverage of the exhibition Feast of Astonishments, broadcast January 26, 2016 “Being labeled “the topless cellist” was a mixed blessing for one American artist of the avant-garde. Charlotte Moorman’s occasional nudity in her performances attracted the curiosity of “The Tonight Show” and TV audiences. It also may have distracted from the […]
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Carl Hoeckner Jr. reminisces about his father, artist Carl Hoeckner in a visit to the Block Museum on January 28, 2014. As Mr. Hoeckner walked through the galleries, he recalled stories of his father, including behind-the-scenes anecdotes about individual works as well as other artists in the exhibition. From Northwestern News Carl Hoeckner Jr., the 92-year-old son of artist […]
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Our new special issue of Around the Block covers the Block Museum’s schedule from fall 2013 to spring 2014. Download it here (pdf) Block Museum members will also receive the printed document in the mail. Not a member? Join now!
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COPYRIGHT MARK DION STUDIO, COURTESY: TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, IMAGE: ART EVANS, ©STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS. From the New York Times to the New Yorker, the exhibition Phantoms of the Clark Expedition is garnering major attention in Manhattan. Curated by Lisa Corrin, the Block Museum’s Ellen Philips Katz Director, Phantoms is an installation by […]
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Picture a sundial and you’ll probably think of an object made from brass or another type of metal. But in early modern Europe you could find versions of a sundial and other scientific instruments constructed from paper. Suzanne Karr-Schmidt, the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Prints and […]
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Hear Block Museum senior curator Debora Wood talk about Polaroids: Mapplethorpe and From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A Century of Italian Drawings from the Prado and watch a slide show of images from both exhibitions. (12:48 minutes). Thank you to the Northwestern University Department of Academic and Research Technologies.
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