Visit the Block Museum’s Sculpture Garden
Take a short trip to Evanston this summer
Warm weather means Chicagoans get their long-awaited chance to come out of hibernation and enjoy the area’s many green spaces for a couple of months. If you’ve gotten used to Millennium Park’s artistic surroundings and want a change, visit another spectacular setting just a short trip away in Evanston.
The Sculpture Garden at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University was founded in 1987 by Leigh Block, one of the Museum's inaugural donors and a preeminent collector of modern art. Block bequested a large group of bronze sculptures to the Museum, along with an endowment for their maintenance. Works by artists such as Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Joan Miró, and Henry Moore constitute the core of the Outdoor Sculpture Garden.
Regular tours of the Garden are available and coincide with tours of works located within the museum. Admission is free.
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Barbara Hepworth, Bryher II, 1961, cast bronze with green & brown patina and stainless steel strings. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Gift of Leigh B. Block, 1988.3.2. © Bowness, Hepworth Estate
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First Fridays at
The Flat Iron: July 3
Wicker Park/Bucktown’s First Friday features SALUTE in the Flat Iron Arts Building on Milwaukee Avenue.
The show, starting the evening of July 3rd runs through the weekend and celebrates patriotism, the American experience and military personnel...
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