The Block Muse
Explore the Block Muse for special content about visual art and cinema at the Block Museum, on campus and around the city. In this forum, students, faculty and Block curators provide features like videos and audio podcasts of recent Block programs, previews of upcoming Block Cinema screenings, interviews with scholars, stories about exhibitions at the Block and artworks from the collection, news about art happenings at Northwestern and much more.
If you have an idea for submission, contact block-museum@northwestern.edu.
Printed Scientific Instruments
Some 16th-century printmakers kept busy producing the components of sundials, globes, and other tools constructed from sheets of paper. Suzanne Karr-Schmidt of the Art Institute of Chicago explains.
Knowledge | Replication: Early Modern Sciences in Print
A Department of Art History Myers symposium brought together an international panel of scholars to address the relationship between art and science. Listen to the presentations.
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Curator's Discussion
Northwestern art history professor Claudia Swan talks to Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe curator Susan Dackerman of the Harvard Art Museums. Listen to their conversation.
