Exhibitions

How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States? Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art presents an original exhibition exploring how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation.

The 2022 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — Yani aviles, an emard, Whitney Johnson, Scott Kemp, Travis Morehead, jess mai walker — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. This year's thesis exhibition is accompanied by events,...

From the 1950s through the 1980s, painters and sculptors throughout the Arab world explored the challenges and possibilities of abstraction in art. “Taking Shape”, an exhibition of works from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), presents the work of Middle Eastern and North...