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What’s inside the Block? It depends on how you look.


The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is an engine that drives questioning, experimentation, and collaboration across fields of study, with visual arts at the center. We do this by activating art’s power as a form of insight, research, and knowledge creation that makes human experience visible and material. Fueled by diverse perspectives and ways of knowing, we create shared encounters with art and with one another to deepen understandings of the world and our place within it.


Through exhibitions, classes, programs, screenings, and initiatives, The Block convenes bold conversations that explore the relevance of art to our lives and that deepen our thinking. We are as committed to exploring what art can do as we are to studying what art is.


Always free and open to all.


Image: Block Museum Student Associates tour The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto, 2023

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Co-curator Stephanie S.E. Lee explores two Helen Frankenthaler works, revealing unexpected links to music, literature, and collaboration.

Join us in the gallery for a talk with Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper co-curator Stephanie S.E. Lee, Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum and 2024–25 Block Museum Art History Graduate Fellow.

This event kicks-off the exhibition with an in-depth look at two of Frankenthaler’s works created more than a decade apart: Divertimento (1983) and Tales of Genji (1998). Together, we’ll explore how close looking at these works reveals surprising connections—to Italian classical music, an 11th-century Japanese novel, and the spirit of artistic collaboration that shaped Frankenthaler’s process.


Image:  Frankenthaler at work in her studio in 1969. Ernst Haas Hulton Archive/ Courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Getty Images.

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