Opened in 1980 as the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery (named in honor of noted Chicago art collectors who were major donors to the gallery), the Block raised its on-campus profile in 2000 with the ...

The Block Campus Art Walk, though seemingly tailor-made for this year, was developed largely by student interns in 2017. Isabella Ko (Weinberg ‘20) and Nicholas Liou ...

Although Dees, Block’s curator of modern and contemporary art, was already aware of many of the works she wanted to include in “A Site of Struggle,” she often had to undertake detective work ...

Lisa Graziose Corrin, Ellen Philips Katz executive director, Block Museum of Art: At the Block, we think about “place” in all its richness and complexity. . . .