

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Close Look: The Art of Bruce Conner
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 03:30 pm – Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 04:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join Block academic curators Corinne Granof and Michael Metzger for a discussion about the prints and experimental films of Bruce Conner.About this EventArtist Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was a relentless innovator who experimented across genres, techniques, and mediums, including collage, filmmaking, performance, and photography. Throughout his career, he often played the role of provocateur and at times rejected the label of “artist,” challenging conventions and playfully questioning the nature of materials and artistic practice.The Block Museum will exhibit 5 of Conner’s lithographs from Monday, January 5th-Sunday, February 1st in the Living Room.Join Corinne Granof, Academic Curator, and Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Academic Curator for Cinema and Media Arts, for a discussion about the boundary-pushing printmaking and experimental films of this postwar American artist and to consider Conner’s visual art and moving image practices together.Coffee and tea will be offered beginning at 3:00 pm.The Living Room is a drop-in space at The Block Museum that invites students and other visitors to gather, reflect, and connect with one artwork in the museum’s collection, rotating each month. Stop by for a warm drink and a conversation — most Wednesdays and this Thursday from 3–5 PM, the coffee, tea, and cider is on us.Participation level – medium, participants are encouraged to share thoughts and questions during the program.Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs are appreciated, but not required.About the SpeakersCorinne Granof is Academic Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University where she directs curatorial initiatives with students and faculty. She has collaborated on over 30 past exhibitions and publications for the Block, including Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper (2025); Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism (2024); For One and All: Prints from the Block’s Collection (2023); Up Is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio (2018); and William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (2017).Michael Metzger is the Pick-Laudati Academic Curator of Cinema and Media Arts at the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Since 2018 he has directed the Block Cinema screening series at Northwestern, where he has organized over 200 film screenings, workshops, and public programs. His curatorial efforts include installations by artists Paul Chan, Isaac Julien, Sky Hopinka, and Dario Robleto, and he is the editor of The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto (2023).The Living Room is supported by the Alsdorf Gallery Endowment.Image credit: Bruce Conner (American, 1933-2008), #120, 1970. Offset lithograph on paper, 20 3/16 × 14 1/4 in. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of The Conner Family Trust, San Francisco. [Detail.]
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