Touring Exhibitions

The Block Museum creates original exhibitions grounded in curatorial research and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our touring exhibitions bring this work to museums and audiences nationally and internationally.

Hamdia Traoré’s “Des marabouts de Djenné” and Muslim Portraiture in Mali

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University

On view January 23 - July 3, 2027

it takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania

On view January 25, 2026 - January 10, 2027

Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, New Orleans, LA

On view August 14, 2025 – January 16, 2026

A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama

on view August 13- November 6, 2022

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa

Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario

On view September 9, 2019 – February 23, 2020

The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C

On view July 16, 2021 – February 27, 2022

A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s

The Grey Art Museum, New York University

On view September 8–December 10, 2016

Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria

On view March 4–June 18, 2017

The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade, 1929–1940

The Grey Art Museum, New York University

On view January 13–April 4, 2015

Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film

Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin

On view January 29–June 14, 2009

The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College

On view January 7– February 14, 2003

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

On view March 7–June 15, 2003

NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom

University of Iowa Museum of Art

On view April 27–June 23, 2002