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Northwestern University 2009 Morton Schapiro inaugurated as Northwestern’s 16th president Schapiro receives a “NU Survival Kit” that includes a roll of quarters for downtown parking meters from then-Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, a supply of warm clothes from the Northwestern Alumni Association and a picture of The Rock from the Associated Student Government. John Legend performs in a concert at Welsh-Ryan Arena, and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman speaks at the event. Watch a video of the event highlights. March Through the Arch A new tradition is born as the Class of 2013 and trans...

Hill works as an artist and educator to produce archive-based exhibits, educational projects, and presentations for many academic and cultural institutions, including the Anchorage Museum, the Block Museum at Northwestern University, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago. She is also the creator of the Kinship Project, a community archive of photographs and artifacts from African American families dated between 1839 to 2012. Experience –present 2019 - 2021 Joyce B...

UpdatedMon, Mar 1, 2021 at 9:36 am CT Replies(3) It could take more than a year for a new operator to reopen the shuttered multiplex at 1715 Maple Ave. in Evanston. (Google Maps) EVANSTON, IL — The private equity firm that owns Evanston's only commercial cinema is without a tenant after the national movie theater chain that has operated it for two decades was able to terminate its lease due to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's executive orders issued in response to the coronavirus pandemic. City staff say at least a dozen theater operators have already expressed interest in replacing Plano, Texas-based ...

Chicago art museums have often failed to reflect the diverse Indigenous community still living in the city, but a new grant hopes to change that. Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art announced it will receive a $105,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art to fund an Indigenous art exhibit slated to open in Jan. 2024. The museum outlined in a grant proposal a process for robust engagement with the Chicago Native American community. Kathleen Bickford Berzock, the associate director of curatorial affairs at the Block Museum, said the exhibit is the culmination of the museum’s effo...

'Taking Shape' at the McMullen Museum A groundbreaking exhibition of abstract art from the Arab world in an exclusive New England showing 'To Monet, Giverny' by Abdallah Benanteur (Mostaganem, Algeria, 1931–Ivry-sur-Seine, France, 2017); oil on canvas, 1983. The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will present the exclusive New England exhibition of Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, a groundbreaking exhibition drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The exhibition is open to the public for virtual view...