Artist: Janaina Tschäpe (German-Brazilian, born 1973)Title: Juju 2 (The Sea and the Mountain) Date: 2004Medium: Dye destruction print (Cibachrome / silver dye bleach print)Dimensions: 42 × 52 × 2 in. (framed)Credit: Gift of Giuseppe Ciardi through Museums Exchange, 2026, Image copyright of the artist. When viewers first encounter Juju 2 (The Sea and the Mountain), […]
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On April 11, 2026, The Block Museum of Art hosted the Diné in Focus Photography Collective for a conversation on photography, representation, ethics, and contemporary life across the Navajo Nation. The event was held alongside Teresa Montoya’s exhibition Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill and featured Teresa Montoya (Diné), […]
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Spanning more than three decades, the gift brings works addressing displacement, human rights, and environmental justice to Northwestern’s art collection The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has received a major gift of fourteen photographs by internationally acclaimed artist Fazal Sheikh, given by the artist in honor of Interim President and […]
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On February 25, 2026, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University hosted artist Jonathan Castillo for a conversation about his ongoing photographic project Immigrant Owned. He spoke with Myrna García, Associate Professor of Instruction in Latinx Studies, about the stories, processes, and questions that drive his work across Chicago and beyond. “I want people […]
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Artist: Jonathan Michael Castillo (American)Title: Immigrant Owned photo seriesDate: 2022Medium: Inkjet printDimensions: 43 × 55.7 cm, eachCredit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Art and Community Fund purchase, 2025.27 From February 4 to March 8, 2026, a number of works from this series will be on view in The Living Room at The Block Museum of Art. Chicago’s neighborhoods are […]
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This winter, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents two exhibitions drawn from recent museum acquisitions of photographic portfolios. The exhibitions Hamdia Traoré’s Des marabouts de Djenné and Muslim Portraiture in Mali and Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years After the Gold King Mine Spill will be on […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has received a major gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation: 201 black-and-white photographs by the artist team Shunk-Kender and photographer Harry Shunk, documenting some of the most transformative moments in postwar art. This is the largest single gift of vintage photographic prints ever received by the museum […]
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Artist: Leon Lewandowski (American, 1932 – 2005)Titles: Picture of Cora WardDate: c.1950Medium: Gelatin silver printDimensions: 7 9/16 in x 7 1/2 in inchesCredit Line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Steve Nordman, 2017.10.2 Leon Lewandowski (American, 1932– 2005) has been described as a “forgotten street photographer.”1 Indeed, much of Lewandowski’s work did not see the light of […]
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Artist: Candida Höfer (German, born 1944)Title: Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional de Mafra IV 2006 (Library of the National Palace of Mafra 2006)Date: 2006Medium: Dye coupler print (chromogenic print)Dimensions: 61 × 69 1/4 inCredit Line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Ellen Philips Katz, 2025.3.3. Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Ben Brown Fine Arts. In […]
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Artist: Ken Fandell (American, born 1971)Title: The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois)Date: 2003Medium: Inkjet print on paperDimensions: 58 1/4 in x 105 inCredit Line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Peter Norton, 2016.4.9 From October 8 to November 9, 2025, Ken Fandell’s photograph The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois) will be […]
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