 Behold, Be HeldOngoing Evanston “And I know what it’s like to behold and not be held.” – Moses Sumney, Lyrics from his song Plastic (2014) In Fall 2020, as our galleries remained closed to visitors due to the pandemic, we challenged... | Visual Arts | August 2021 | 1628139600 |
 Sky Hopinka: Cloudless Blue Egress of SummerStarting September 22, 2021 Evanston Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer, a two-channel video installation by the artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga, born 1984, Ferndale, WA), offers an immersive and elusive reckoning with histories of co... | Visual Arts | September 2021 | 1632330000 |
 Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s CollectionStarting September 22, 2021 Evanston How do artists, artworks, and museums shape and challenge our understanding of the past? In 2020-2021 Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art celebrates its 40th anniversary. Leading up to this ... | Visual Arts | September 2021 | 1632330000 |
Warnock Lecture Series: Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California, Santa Barbara)October 6, 2021 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Mapping the Ephemeral: Decolonizing Durational Imagination Northwestern University Department of Art History presents the Warnock Lecture Series This lecture is an invitation to reimagine the norms of... | October 2021 | 1633557600 | |
 More at the Museum: Online Collection TalkOctober 14, 2021 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Join the Block Museum for a look at artworks from the collection that explore ideas of excess, consumption, and the environment, and offer an interdisciplinary perspective on the climate crisis. This ... | Humanities | October 2021 | 1634232600 |