Tag: interview

“Art is between us”: Mania Akbari on capturing poetry, collaboration, and transformation on film [Audio]

Bynublockmuseum May 13, 2020 0 Comments
At age 30, Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy. A Moon For My Father (2019), an essay film made in collaboration with her partner, the British sculptor Douglas White, positions Akbari’s illness within layers of personal and national history. Rich in texture and astonishingly intimate, Akbari’s film presents memory as a poetic,...

Wattz Up! Yollocalli’s Pop Up Youth Radio broadcasts from The Block Museum

Bynublockmuseum October 31, 2019 0 Comments
On September 28, 2019 members of Pop Up Youth Radio, a project of Yollocalli Arts Reach, transformed The Block Museum lobby into an on-air studio, broadcasting live from the Pop America 1965-1975 exhibition opening. Wattz Up! is a weekly radio show on WLPN 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio.  Broadcast live from Studio Y in Little Village, Chicago on Saturdays from 12-2pm, the program features...

Inside Pop América: Corinne Granof on what makes the exhibition “pop”

Bynublockmuseum October 4, 2019 0 Comments
The exhibition Pop América, 1965–1975 brings together artists from across the Americas to reframe our understanding of Pop Art. Pop América is the first exhibition to unify Latin American and Latinx expressions of Pop and explore how its bold, colorful imagery and political potential was embraced by artists working across the hemisphere. Corinne Granof, Block Museum Academic...

Art + Engineering: Dario Robleto on the shared quest of art and science [Video]

Bynublockmuseum August 30, 2017 0 Comments
Dario Robleto is a transdisciplinary artist, storyteller, and “citizen-scientist” whose research-driven practice results in intricately handcrafted objects that reflect his exploration of music, popular culture, science, war, and American history. Since 1997, Robleto has exhibited his work in museums and galleries across the United States, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art,...