Press Coverage
2018
‘The Other Kids’ attempts to reinvent teen drama as part of New Docs series
Crystal Wall, January 31, 2018, The Daily Northwestern
"A Lunatic of the Sacred": The Life and Work of Charlotte Moorman
Nicole Woods, January 2018, Art Journal: Book Review
Rare Mummy Portraits Offer Peek into the Past at Block Museum
Marc Vitali, January 24, 2018, Chicago Tonight
Egyptian death-mask portraits bring their subjects back to life after 2,000 years
Dmitry Samarov, January 23, 2018, Chicago Reader
“Paint the Eyes Softer” features local mummy and student research
Andrea Michelson, January 18, 2018, The Daily Northwestern
Still Life
January 17, 2018, Clyfford Still Museum
Pink dolphins, zombies, and Ojibwe tales: How friends Andrea Carlson and Heid E. Erdrich inspire each other
Justin Curto, January 15, 2018, City Pages
What do Walt Whitman, Jackson Pollock and Jimi Hendrix have in common?
Dominic Green, January 13, 2018, The Spectator
Visit Chicago NorthShore: 16 Things to Do on a Cold or Snowy Day
January 11, 2018, Visit Chicago's North Shore
5 Things to Do: Jan. 12-14
Anna Carlson, January 8, 2018, Make it Better
Discovery Channel: Daily Planet
Discovery Channel, February 20, 2018, Discovery Channel: Daily Planet
See Lifelike Mummy Portraits From Roman Egypt, Now at Northwestern University
Michele Debczak, February 25, 2018, Mental Floss
Northwestern's Block Museum Hosts Jen Bervin as Winter Resident
Harriet Staff, February 19, 2018, Poetry Foundation
Modern tech unravels mysteries of Egyptian mummy portraits
Howard Wolinsky, February 19, 2018, Science News
The Eyes Were A Portal, Even Way Back Then: A Review of “Paint the Eyes Softer: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt” at the Block Museum of Art
Chris Miller, February 15, 2018, NewCity Art
Review: The Block's Paint the Eyes Softer exhibit
Kathryn Rothstein, February 13, 2018, North by Northwestern
Here’s a chance to see what people who became mummies looked like
Erin Blakemore, February 10, 2018, The Washington Post
Take a trip and trip out to ‘William Blake and the Age of Aquarius’
Jason Foumberg, February 8, 2018, Chicago Reader
Women embroider Black Lives Matter quilt as part of domestic violence awareness
Genevieve Bookwalter, February 5, 2018, Chicago Tribune
Composing Music for Mummies
Jourdan Kerl, February 1, 2018, Medill Reports Chicago
Evanston artist hosts quilt circle, commemorates BLM movement
Tejas Sekhar, February 1, 2018, The Daily Northwestern
Art Top 5: April 2018
Elliot Reichert, March 26, 2018, New City Art
Why choosing a name for an exhibition is anything but straightforward
James H. Miller, March 26, 2018, The Art Newspaper
7 cool exhibits, some a little quirky
Graham Meyer, March 9, 2018, Crain's Chicago Business
Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Rachel Yang, March 9, 2019, Chicago Reader
University-based art museums are raking it in
Lisa Bertagnoli, March 9, 2018, Crain's Chicago Business
Artist in Residence Jen Bervin leads workshops, classes on interdisciplinary art practice
Christopher Vazquez, March 7, 2018, The Daily Northwestern
The Oscars, Mario Vargas Llosa's Latest And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Talya Zax, March 1, 2018, Forward
Block Museum Exhibit Looks for Meaning in Unbranded Ads
April 18, 2018, Evanston RoundTable
Reconnecting art and science in the classroom
Julio Ottino and Adrian Randolph, April 18, 2018, The Hill
‘Unbranded’ exhibition examines race, gender through advertisements
Andrea Michelson, April 18, 2018, The Daily Northwestern
Unbranded: reflections in black on a century of white women
Janet Dees and Tamar Kharatishvili, April 18, 2018, THE SEEN
Let the pictures do the talking: Hank Willis Thomas deconstructs the ad game at the Block Museum
Deanna Isaacs, April 17, 2018, Chicago Reader
Ads Without Additives: 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Hank Willis Thomas Makes Advertisements Speak Truth to Power at the Block Museum of Art
Elliot Reichert, April 13, 2018, Newcity Art
Ten Things to Do in Chicago This Week
April 12, 2018, Chicago Magazine
The Block goes through an experimental phase; ACRE looks for signs of intelligent life
KT Hawbaker, April 12, 2018, Chicago Tribune
“Mummies” at the Field Museum Review – Cutting-edge Technologies at Work
Barbara Keer, April 7, 2018, Splash Magazines
A Moveable Fest
Sherry Thomas, April 4, 2018, Daily North Shore
Images of Power
Laura Hine, April 1, 2018, North Shore Modern Luxury
Who's that mummy girl?
April 1, 2018, Northwestern Magazine
Milos Stehlik Interviews Iranian Filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi
Steve Bynum, May 25, 2018, WBEZ
Forum Promotes Collaboration, Innovation and Change
May 24, 2018, Newswise
Renowned Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker screens three of his films at Northwestern
Mohamed Abdelfattah, May 22, 2018, Northwestern Now
An Interview with Lisa Graziose Corrin, Director of the Block Mueseum of Art
Lisa Corrin, May 22, 2018, Chicago Gallery News
What is a Portrait Mummy? [VIDEO]
Marc Walton, May 2, 2018, Daily Planet
Q&A with Seth Woods and Spencer Topel: 'Iced Bodies'
Elizabeth Garrison, May 1, 2018, The Dartmouth
NEH @ NU
Justin Curto, May 30, 2018, North by Northwestern
60 exciting openings in Chicago in July
Zach Long, June 29, 2018, Time Out Chicago
Hank Willis Thomas
Abigail Winograd, June 2018, Artforum
Art + Engineering
Emily Ayshford, June 2018, Northwestern Engineering
$30,000 in cultural grants awarded to Evanston artists, programs
Genevieve Bookwalter, June 12, 2018, Chicago Tribune
UNBRANDED
Savannah Christensen, Nicole Fallert, and Hannah Lindley, June 6, 2018, Medill News
A fiery AIDS activist finally gets his due with exbitions of his art and videos
Ben Sachs, July 20, 2018, Chicago Reader
Ten things to do in Chicago this week
July 19, 2018, Chicago Magazine
The 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover and “Unbranded” Review- Northwestern University puts archives and images on display
Debra Davy, July 15, 2018, Splash Magazines
Dario Robleto crafts art with empathetic expansion
Molly Glentzer, July 13, 2018, Houston Chronicle
Can't-Miss Fall Art Events
Elliot Reichert, August 30, 2018, New City
51 Things to Do in Chicago in September
Jason Foumberg, John Hardberger, Britt Julious, Graham Meyer, Catey Sullivan, and Lauren Warnecke, August 29, 2018, Chicago Magazine
Chicago Imagists star this fall
Graham Meyer, August 23, 2018, Crain's Chicago Business
Leo B creates new Art Design Chicago campaign
Carol Fox and Associates, August 22, 2018, Reel Chicago
Celebrating the diversity of Chicago’s cultural landscape
Louise Nicholson, August 2, 2018, Apollo Magazine
Entertainment options for every day of August — EVERY. LAST. DAY.
Morgan Smith, August 1, 2018, Chicago Tribune
Upcoming exhibition in Chicago: Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, January 26, 2019 - July 21, 2019
August 22, 2018, International Center of Medieval Art
‘Caravans of Gold’ Exhibition traveling from Northwestern University to Aga Khan Museum
August 12, 2018, Ismali Mail
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
August 01, 2018, Mutual Art
Ecstasy on film: Nathaniel Dorsky discusses The Arboretum Cycle, his latest work of devotional cinema, which he'd prefer you watch alone
Ben Sachs, September 23, 2018, Chicago Reader
Neil Goodman Retrospective Gets Back to Basics
Michael Paglia, September 27, 2018, Westword
Crucial Viewing THE ARBORETUM CYCLE (New Experimental)
JBM, September 28, 2018, Cine-File Chicago
Crucial Viewing Raymundo Gleyzer’s MEXICO: THE FROZEN REVOLUTION (Documentary Revival)
PF, September 28, 2018, Cine-File Chicago
Catch This Trio of Bold Art Shows Electrifying the Fall Exhibition Circuit
Thomas Connors, September 14, 2018, Michigan Avenue Magazine
Chicago Guide
September 14, 2018, Chicago Magazine
"Beste connects the Goldsholls' relationship to corporations to their interest in materials. 'They had an investment in experimentation and material which translates into an interest in material life,' she says. 'How do people understand their lives through the materials they engage with?'"
Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, September 2018, Newcity Art
10 museum exhibitions to look forward to this fall
Steve Johnson, September 5, 2018, Chicago Tribune
Arts & Minds: An innovative design firm, a scandalous play, and a pioneering immigrant artist
Hedy Weiss, September 4, 2018, Jewish United Fund
Trailblazing Goldsholl Design Firm On Exhibit In Chicago
September 4, 2018, Graphic Design USA
NPR Newscast
Carrie Shepard, October 21, 2018, WBEZ News
Installation View: Up is Down at the Block Museum
October 29, 2018, Sixty Inches From the Center
Northwestern’s Block Museum debuts new branding
Dan Patton, October 31, 2018, Reel Chicago
Block Museum UP IS DOWN Exhibit and related Events Preview
October 25, 2018, Picture this Post
9 Amazing Chicago Art tours for fall 2018
Carole Kuhrt Brewer, October 18, 2018, Chicago Now
Plan a Perfect Fall Day Around Chicago’s North Shore
October 12, 2018, Chicago's North Shore
‘Distant Constellation’ Documentary Opens November Boston and NY
October 11, 2018, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
Advertising trailblazers’ work featured in Block Museum exhibition
Victoria Lee, October 3, 2018, Daily Northwestern
Up is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio Review – Fascinating and Compelling
Barbara Keer, October 2, 2018, Splash Magazine
Block Museum exhibit 'Caravans of Gold' receives federal grant, largest in museum history
Aaron Wang, October 18, 2018, Daily Northwestern
Exhibition Preview - Caravans of Gold
Adam Philips, October 1, 2018, Voice Of America
Best in Chicago museums 2018: Danish trolls, Mexican art and Sue's new digs at the Field make the top 10
Steve Johnson, December 20, 2018, Chicago Tribune
How the look of the 20th century came from Chicago and its African-American designers. Have a 7UP?
Steve Johnson, December 5, 2018, Chicago Tribune
The Goldsholls, Chicago Design Pioneers
Steven Heller, December 4, 2018, Print Magazine
Ep50. Reflections on 2018 and a sneak peek into 2019
December 29, 2018, Ufahamu Africa Podcast
The Buzz: Block these Dates
Sherry Thomas, December 1, 2018, Evanston Magazine
31 of the Best Things to Do in Chicago This January
Anna Carlson, December 27, 2018, Make it Better
51 Things to Do in Chicago in January
Jason Foumberg, December 20, 2018, Chicago Magazine
Exhibit focuses on art and culture in medieval Africa
December 19, 2018, Evanston Review
Northwestern University’s New Exhibition Will Showcase Art From Medieval African Kingdoms
December 5, 2018, Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Exhibition Announcement: Caravans of Gold
December 3, 2018, Metromix
Exhibition Announcement: Caravans of Gold
December 1, 2018, Sotheby's Museum Network
On Exhibit
December 1, 2018, Sheridan Road
Block Museum's New Graphic Identity: 'What's inside The Block?'
November 14, 2018, Evanston Roundtable
Dario Robleto Discusses “The Art of Scientific Storytelling” with PhD Students
Alexandria Jacobson, November 13, 2018, McCormick Engineering News
The Intersection of Film, Art, and Advertising: An Attention-Catching Night at the Block Museum
Thomas Wall, November 5, 2018, Northwestern Communication Blog
The Block Museum's new graphic identity invites visitors to discover 'What's inside The Block'
November 1, 2018, Art Daily
Design Top 5: November 2018
Vasia Rigou, November 1, 2018, Newcity Art
Medieval Africa as a cultural force is subject of major exhibition at Block Museum
November 29, 2018, Trib Local
Medieval Africa as a cultural force at NU's Block Museum
November 29, 2018, Reddit Evanston
Medieval Africa as a cultural force at NU's Block Museum
November 29, 2018, Patch Evanston
Medieval Africa as a cultural force is subject of major exhibition at Block Museum
November 29, 2018, Evanston Now
Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art Showcases Medieval Africa as a Cultural Force
November 29, 2018, Blouin Art Info
Exhibition Announcement: Caravans of Gold
November 10, 2018, Asian Campus Tribune
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
November 10, 2018, Aramco World
National Endowment for Humanities grants $350,000 to Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University
November 8, 2018, Devdiscourse
If you’re into experimental animation, Eyeworks is your festival
Kathleen Sachs, November 7, 2018, Chicago Reader