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Hangin' with Bloomsbury Group at the Block Museum

portrait of Leonard Woolf by Roger Fry

portrait of Leonard Woolf by Roger Fry

The Block Museum in Evanston currently has an exhibit of work by the Bloomsbury Group, a loose association of friends, colleagues and lovers that included among others, the writer Virginia Woolf (once portrayed by Nicole Kidman wearing a prosthetic nose in the movie The Hours, but perhaps better

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North Shore Weekend: Curling, Puppets, Bloomsbury and a Gospel Choir

If you can’t find something to do this weekend, you’re really not trying.

US Olympic Curling Trials, (photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Men’s International Bonspiel: Chicago Curling Club: January 14-17,
555 Dundee Road, Northbrook

A bonspiel is a curling tournament, traditionally held outdoors on a frozen freshwater loch. The word comes from the Scots language and

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Friday's Five: Picks for This Weekend

Robert Motherwell, 1915-1991 Elegy to the Spanish Republic

Robert Motherwell, 1915-1991 Elegy to the Spanish Republic

Opening Saturday at the Block Museum in Evanston: Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality, From the Collection of the Walker Art Center. More than 40 drawings, collages, prints, and paintings.

The art and rhetoric of Robert Motherwell helped define the New York School, a group of abstract painters

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