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Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art

‘Keeping the Shadow’ of the AIDS Crisis at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum

Art narrating the AIDS crisis is juxtaposed with Victorian death objects to relay the timelessness of mourning.

Art and Academia Perform “in the Present Tense”

An interview with Susy Bielak and Amanda Graham about co-creating a performance symposium in response to the Charlotte Moorman retrospective at Northwestern's Block Museum.

An Anagogic Aim

Terry Adkins’s “Recital” at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art


One key to understanding the idea of the anagogic in Adkins’s work is that he tries not to materialize ideas, but to immaterialize the objects in the ideas.