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| Motherwell and Moore: Final Weeks |
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TimeOut Chicago gives Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality, From the Collection of the Walker Art Center four stars. Visitors who've experienced it call it "rich," "inspiring," and "fabulous." See it before it closes December 6.
Considered one of the artist's greatest graphic creations, the Elephant Skull portfolio gives us Henry Moore's exploration of an African elephant skull. The entire 28-print album, plus its rare cover and a real elephant skull from the Field Museum, are on display through December 13.
IMAGES: Robert Motherwell, Window in Sienna, 1968, acrylic on canvas; Elegy Study C, 1977, oil on paper mounted on paper board. Collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Gifts of Margaret and Angus Wurtele and the Dedalus Foundation, 1995. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Henry Moore, etching from Elephant Skull portfolio, 1969–70. Collection of the Block Museum, Purchase funds provided in part by Katherine Olson, 2008.19.1–30. Reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation. |
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| The Anna Biller Show |
A horror/western musical, an homage to hypnosis-obsessed Hollywood melodramas, and a loving but biting satire of 1970s "sexploitation" films—these are the surreal and very funny movies of Los Angeles-based independent filmmaker Anna Biller.
Block Cinema presents two evenings of Biller's work at 7 pm on Wednesday and Thursday, November 5 and 6, with Biller live in person. |
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During night two we present Biller's first feature-length film, Viva, along with the 1971 Brit flick Cool It Carol! Both evenings are free.
Funding for the Anna Biller Show has been generously provided by the Northwestern University Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Screen Cultures Program.
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Gallery Talk: Motherwell |
 Want to know more about Robert Motherwell's work and career?
Join Walker Art Center curator Siri Engberg for an in-gallery discussion of the exhibition Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality on Thursday, November 19 at 6 pm. |
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November at Block Cinema |
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Block Cinema's Mumblecore series continues on Wednesday, November 4 at 8 pm with a double feature—Dance Party, USA and Quiet City.
Mexican government agent Charlton Heston battles corrupt bordertown cop Orson Welles in Touch of Evil, part of our exploration of film noir from 1955 and beyond at 8 pm on Thursday, November 12.
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan shows his range as an actor in Black, the story of a deaf, blind, and mute girl and her teacher, who suffers from Alzheimer's. This screening is free.
The complete Block Cinema schedule is available here. General admission is $6 or $4 for Block Museum members, NU students, faculty, and staff, and seniors 65 and older. |
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Thanksgiving Holiday
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The Block Museum will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27.
The Museum will be open 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday, November 28 and 29.
IMAGE: Detail of Fritzi Brod, Untitled, ca. 1935, woodcut. Collection of the Block Museum, 1995.28. |
| On the Arts Circle |
 $5 off tickets available to Leonard Bernstein's MASS, directed by Jeff Award-winner Dominic Missimi, on Saturday, November 14 at 2 pm, presented by the Theatre and Interpretation Center and Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. Tickets at www.tic.northwestern.edu or (847) 491-7282. Mention promo code: Bernstein.
With a nearly 30-year performing history, the members of the Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet continue to set the guitar-ensemble standard for expression and virtuosity. On Saturday, November 7, at 7:30 pm they will performs a program including music from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote: Words and Music from the Time of Cervantes, with acclaimed actor Phillip Proctor as narrator. Tickets at 847.467.4000 or www.pickstaiger.org.
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| SOFA Chicago |
Don't miss SOFA CHICAGO 2009, the Sculpture
Objects & Functional Art Fair November 6 to 8 at
Navy Pier.
Visit www.sofaexpo.com for more information. |
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The Block Museum's fall exhibitions and programs are supported by the Alsdorf Endowment; American Airlines; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; and the Myers Foundations. Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality is organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. |
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