Nov 11th 2026
Vacant Stares: Adrienne Brown on Rethinking Urban Emptiness
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, November 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Vacancy has been a key framework for picturing the modern metropolis. From the more recent romanticization of Detroit “ruin porn” to older forms of documentary realism conjuring the forlorn melancholy of abandonment, we’ve inherited a fairly standard descriptive language and visual grammar for urban vacancy and emptiness. This talk brings together artworks that challenge familiar representations of urban vacancy and offer new ways of understanding and relating to urban space beyond narratives of repair or redevelopment.
This program is presented in conjunction with current exhibition, “Picturing the Modern Metropolis: Prints and Photographs from The Block’s Collection.”
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