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The Block Museum of Art is a free public art museum located on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.The Block Museum was established in 1980 when Chicago art collectors Mary (daughter of Albert Lasker) and Leigh B. Block (former vice president of Inland Steel Company) donated funds to Northwestern University for the construction of an art exhibition venue. [1]
English: Front facade of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Date: Photograph taken July 2008. Source: Own work:
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art: The renovated Block Museum of Art: 1980 40 Arts Circle Drive Houses the Block Museum of Art, an art gallery run by the university. Re-opened in 2000 after a renovation designed by Dirk Lohan. [12] Cahn Auditorium Entrance to Cahn Auditorium from Emerson Street: 1940
The center, physically based at Northwestern University, facilitates interdisciplinary research partnerships and serves as a collaborative hub for scholars, scientists, and museum professionals.NU-ACCESS has been involved in numerous research projects and has contributed to significant exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, such as ...
Bolton Museum (on loan to University of Bolton). [2] [4] Purchased in 1970; relocated in 1982. ... Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University ...
Janet Dees is an American curator who is the Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. [1] [2] She is also an art historian and expert on African, African-American, and Spanish colonial art, having researched and taught the subjects in positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and the ...
2023 The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto, The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2019 Unknown and Solitary Seas (Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Recent efforts, such as an online exhibit organized by the Block Museum at Northwestern University (which includes a clickable map of the Wall's individual portraits), [13] and the edited volume, The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2017), aim to recover the Wall's history and ...