American exhibitions that showcase African art often exhibit work that is housed in the collections of American or Western institutions. It is still somewhat rare for American institutions to borrow loans directly from African museums and cultural sites. In 2019, The Block presented the groundbreaking Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across […]
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In The Block Museum’s Eloise W. Martin Study Center – a multifaceted space that offers patrons and classes a setting for up-close study of artwork in the museum’s collection – visiting paper conservator Kim Nichols carefully inspects a piece from The Block’s permanent collection. Because of the clay pigments used in its making, protective tissue […]
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Ashleigh Deosaran, a Northwestern doctoral student in Art History and curator of The Block Museum’s The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern exhibit knew early on that Ayé Aton’s painting Untitled (1976) would be a keystone of the exhibition. The piece came to The Block on loan from the collection […]
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In January 2017, the Block Museum was pleased to welcome Veronica Robinson into the role of Assistant Registrar. Veronica come to the museum with over six years of curatorial and preservation experience at the Swedish American Museum of Chicago, and will be working closely with our Senior Registrar, Kristina Bottomley. Veronica took a break from installation preparation and […]
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