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Upcoming Events

Medical Projections: Surgery, Disease, Physiology, and Health in Early Cinema (1892-1909)

A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Ben Zucker

Art Talks! With Block Student Associates – On Horizons

Environmental, Activist, and Indigenous Energies - Nick Estes and Dallas Goldtooth

At the Limits of Life and Empathy: Dario Robleto and Malcolm MacIver

Urania and the Asclepiades: A Magic Lantern performance by Artemis Willis

TAHARA (2020) with filmmaker Olivia Peace

OUR HEAVENLY BODIES (1925) with live accompaniment

A SELF-INDUCED HALLUCINATION (2018) with director Jane Schoenbrun

TROPICAL MALADY (2004) in 35mm with filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Blessings of Cinema: Short Films with Apichatpong Weerasethakul

DESCENDANT (2022) with filmmakers Margaret Brown and Kern Jackson

"How the Word is Passed:" Online Collection Talk

SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (2006) in 35mm with filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Art Talks! With Block Student Associates – On Heartbeats

Art Talks! With Block Student Associates – On Wavelengths

A Conversation about Liberation, Beauty, and Energies in Art Making: Torkwase Dyson with D. Soyini Madison

The Bavarian Rococo, the Outlier of Eighteenth-Century Art

A Siberian Poetics of Extinction in Cinema

Gallery Talk: Resequencing "The First Time, The Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913)" (2017)

The Future Heart in Poetry and Medicine: Dario Robleto, Doris Taylor, Adrian Matejka

Art Talks! With Block Student Associates – On Horizons

Gallery Talk: Perspectives on Art, Medicine, and Palliative Care in "The Heart's Knowledge"

Artist Talk Back: “The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto”