The Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs's Climate Crisis and Media Arts @ Northwestern group is hosting art historian and author T.J. Demos for a lecture on 'Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform.'
🗓 Weds. May 15 at 6 PM
📍 The Block Museum
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WILD RELATIVES by Jumana Manna playing at the The Block Museum this Friday night 🔥 blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2024/se…

TONIGHT! Art historian T.J. Demos on the counterinsurgent forces that stand in the way of emancipatory futures. 6pm at The Block Museum.

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The Block is excited to introduce its new Manager of Public Programs, Christiana Castillo:
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This Saturday (3/9) Gene Siskel Film Center presents DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS, a documentary on the composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, inventor, and humanitarian whose work is featured in The Block's exhibition ACTIONS FOR THE EARTH: siskelfilmcenter.org/deep-listening

Through a collaboration between The Block Museum and NU Libraries, works from the museum's permanent collection are now accessible through searches of the library's database:
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Thanks to Newcity Chicago for their pick of our upcoming show 'A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography' art.newcity.com/2024/02/27/art…

'Whether it encourages viewers to pause at their desk and listen to the birds outside or going out for a stroll, the exhibit offers a refreshing and important reminder of how we can connect with and care for the earth.' NS Magazine northshore.mlchicagosocial.com/block-museum-a…

Tonight The Block Museum, Block Cinema hosts filmmaker Priya Sen for a screening of YEH FREEDOM LIFE, her subtly expansive 2018 documentary about ordinary life and extraordinary love in South Delhi. A CINE-FILE Crucial Viewing selection! blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2024/ye…

The Block Museum Chicago Botanic Garden Friday at 7pm, we present FAYA DAYI (2021), an instant classic of imaginative observational documentary, with filmmaker Jessica Beshir. A film that truly sings on a big screen. As always, free and open to the public!
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This week The Block Museum, recent nonfiction film at its most ecstatic. Thursday at 7pm we launch our SEED TIME series w/ the richly textured 2018 essay film ACCESSION. Filmmakers Tamer Hassan and Armand Tufenkian & Chicago Botanic Garden's Jeremie Fant in person. eventbrite.com/e/accession-20…

Chicago! Next week! 🤩

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Huge week at Block Cinema coming up: Rhayne Vermette Vermette and Inney Prakash Inney Prakash in town Wednesday and Thursday for screenings the sublime STE. ANNE (2021) and select shorts from Prismatic Ground 🇵🇸 : blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2024/st…

We are in good company this winter! We can't wait to welcome you to 'Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology' art.newcity.com/2024/01/02/art…

Our publication 'The Hearts Knowledge' is included in a great year-end wrap up from NU Wildcats Football News

'Robleto’s research takes the form of beautiful, intricate objects that invite sustained contemplation,” said editor Michael Metzger'
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Our friends and collaborators Debra Yepa-Pappan and Chris Pappan share one of the most beautiful places in Chicago on WTTW - Chicago PBS interactive.wttw.com/most-beautiful…