Block Museum

This exhibit of artwork by artist Bradley McCallum is an attempt to reclaim the legacy of American freelance war correspondent James Foley and acknowledge the universal concerns of journalists who see...

Please join us for the 16th annual Writers Festival, featuring renowned writers offering public readings! This year's featured writers are Stephanie Griest, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and Airea D. Matthews...

Original script and performance by: Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNealContributing Artists & Authors: Paige Brown, Elizabeth Nichole Griffin, Aisha Jean-Baptiste*, Abra Johnson*, Jennifer Lig...

Original script and performance by: Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal Contributing Artists & Authors: Paige Brown, Elizabeth Nichole Griffin, Aisha Jean- Baptiste*, Abra Johnson*, Jennifer L...

One Book One Northwestern (OBON) is a university‐wide reading program that aims to engage the campus in a common conversation centered on a carefully chosen, thought-provoking book. The Block is proud...

LA CHIMERA (2023) LA CHIMERA (ALICE ROHRWACHER, 2023, 134 MIN, DCP, ITALY) Please note early start time of 6:30 PM RSVP   “LA CHIMERA is a dreamlike descent into a majestically tattered world right be...

THE BLACK STALLION (1979)  Introduced by Jacob Smith, Professor, Sound Arts and Industries, Northwestern University THE BLACK STALLION (CARROL BALLARD, 1979, 118 MIN, DCP) RSVP  “...the first hour of ...

Explore works from the Block collection included in the teaching exhibition Looking 101 with Essi Rönkkö, Block Associate Curator of Collections and Academic Programming. This program offers a look at...

The Moore Lecture Series aims to attract great writers to pass their knowledge and experience on to students, faculty, and the Northwestern community. This year's Moore lecturer is Erika L. Sanchez. E...

Block gallery talks explore exhibitions by posing multidisciplinary questions and perspectives, led by faculty, staff, students, and community members across Northwestern and beyond. Join graduate stu...

Meet the Block Museum Student Associates in our galleries for a close look at works on view in  A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography. Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) are Nort...

The Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts is a collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago and materials science-related departments at Northwestern University to pursue objects-based and o...

Film Talks - A Touring Program of Experimental Cinema With Book Editors and Program Curators Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne RSVP  Program 1 of Film Talks will be hosted by the Film Studies Center at ...

Meet the Block Museum Student Associates in our galleries for a close look at works on view in  A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography.  Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) are No...

he Block Museum and the Climate Crisis + Media Arts Working group welcome art historian and author T.J. Demos for a lecture entitled "Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics ...

Spring 2024 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History "Doorscapes and Guardians of the Underworld: a comparative visual approach to the imagery of the ancient Egyptian and Etruscan d...

Block gallery talks explore exhibitions by posing multidisciplinary questions and perspectives, led by faculty, staff, students, and community members across Northwestern and beyond.    Join Michael M...

Memory of Nature, a site-specific artwork by the Indonesian artist Arahmaiani will be installed outside the Block’s entrance in April 2024. This garden of native plants and flowers changes each time i...