On February 21, 2026, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University hosted a keynote conversation in conjunction with the exhibition Hamdia Traoré: Des marabouts de Djenné and Muslim Portraiture in Mali.
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Alexander Nemerov on Helen Frankenthaler’s Diversions [Video]
On October 17, 2025, The Block Museum welcomed art historian and Stanford University professor Alexander Nemerov for an evening keynote reflecting on Helen Frankenthaler’s life and work. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, the program invited audiences to consider what it means to be present […]
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Satire and Spectacle: Federico Solmi on ‘The Great Farce’ [Video]
On October 23, 2024, The Block Museum of Art hosted a conversation between artist Federico Solmi and Ozge Samanci, Associate Professor in the School of Communication, moderated by exhibition curator Janet Dees. The evening highlighted Solmi’s immersive installation, “The Great Farce,” an intense, satirical exploration of power and historical narratives, on display at the museum. […]
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Contesting Freedom: “Pop América, 1965–1975” Curator Conversation with Esther Gabara [Video]
The ground-breaking exhibition Pop América draws attention to Latin American and US Latino/a artists who turned the “Pop” of Pop art into a verb by using familiar images of modern life—including mass media, fashion, food, and advertising—to make forceful interventions into art and society. On October 2, 2019 The Block Museum welcomed Esther Gabara, curator of Pop América, […]
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