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07/08/2026
Collection Spotlight: Jeremy Frey, Untitled (2023)
Artist: Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978)Title: Untitled Date: 2023Medium: Unique relief print and embossment with handwoven Wabanaki basket on handmade Dieu Donné paper…...
Collection Spotlight: Jeremy Frey, Untitled (2023) Artist: Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978)Title: Untitled Date: 2023Medium: Unique relief print and embossment with handwoven Wabanaki basket on handmade Dieu Donné paperCredit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. Purchased from Karma Gallery, 2026. 2026.8. Centered on ...
07/02/2026
Collection Spotlight: Janaina Tschäpe, Juju 2 (The Sea and the Mountain), 2004
Artist: Janaina Tschäpe (German-Brazilian, born 1973)Title: Juju 2 (The Sea and the Mountain) Date: 2004…...
Collection Spotlight: Janaina Tschäpe, Juju 2 (The Sea and the Mountain), 2004 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 ar...
07/01/2026
Learning Through Looking: The Block at the 2026 AAMG Conference
This June, The Block Museum of Art traveled to Iowa City to take part in the annual conference of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), where two members of our team led sessions exploring how academic museums support teaching, research, and community engagement through art....
Learning Through Looking: The Block at the 2026 AAMG Conference This June, The Block Museum of Art traveled to Iowa City to take part in the annual conference of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), where two members of our team led sessions exploring how academic museums support teaching, research, and community engagement through art. The....
🎥 Bodies of Work / Bodies of Time gathers the cinematic explorations of the 2026 Documentary Media MFA Cohort—Maya Castronovo, Alan Medina, Victor Ramos, Fan Wang—into two nights of screen- ings. The films observe and spend time with bodies across geographical borders, ecological entanglements and disentanglements, memory, timescales, and labor.
📆 Night 1 - Wed, 6/10 at 7PM
📆 Night 2 - Thurs, 6/11 at 7PM
✨Each night will be preceded by a reception at 6PM and followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.
This year, the four filmmaker cohort, shares short films made across the course of the two-year program in Night 1 and their thesis films in Night 2.
Co-presented by Northwestern’s School of Communication, The Department of Radio-TV-Film, Jane Steiner Hoffman and Michael Hoffman, and The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
06/03/2026
Collection Spotlight: Gillian Wearing, Video Still (Homage to the Woman with the Bandaged Face), 1995-96
Artist: Gillian Wearing (British, born 1963) Title: Video Still (Homage to the Woman with the Bandaged Face)...
Collection Spotlight: Gillian Wearing, Video Still (Homage to the Woman with the Bandaged Face), 1995-96 Artist: Gillian Wearing (British, born 1963) Title: Video Still (Homage to the Woman with the Bandaged Face) Date: 1995‒96 Medium: Reversal film dye coupler print Dimensions: 16 3/4 in x 23 1/4 in Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Peter Norton, 2016.4.60....
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