modernity Archives

The Block Museum of Art Explores How Artists Shaped the Image of the Modern City

Picturing the Modern Metropolis brings together more than 100 prints, photographs, and drawings from The Block’s collection The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents Picturing the Modern Metropolis: Prints and Photographs from The Block’s Collection, on view September 9 through December 6, 2026. Bringing together more than 100 works focused primarily on the […]

“Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection” offers new view of global modernity

A major exhibition opening at The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University on January 21, 2020, seeks to expand Western perspectives of modern art. Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection surveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of modernism sprang forth in the 1960s and […]