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Welcome to the virtual Hood! View selected photographic panoramas of our exhibitions, video from our twentieth-anniversary celebration, or a slide show of the construction of the museum, or listen to selected lectures and gallery talks, interviews, and discussions about our exhibitions.
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Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, winter 2008
No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, fall 2007
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, summer and fall 2007
Our Land: Contemporary Art from the Arctic, spring 2007
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, winter and spring 2007
El Anatsui: GAWU, winter 2007
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, autumn 2006
See individual exhibition pages (current and past) for links to audio of related lectures and gallery talks. Below are links to general named lectures and symposia from recent years:
Bonnie Clearwater, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Dancing on the Cutting Edge: Merce Cunningham (The Dr. Allen W. Root Contemporary Art Distinguished Lecture), October 10, 2007.
Jere R. Daniell, Professor of History, Emeritus, Reflections of Dartmouth's History in the American Collections, July 17, 2007.
From the symposium Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture, Friday, July 13, 2007, Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art
--Kathryn Greenthal, art historian and curator, Boston, Engaging
the Viewer: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Contemporary Sculpture, July 13,
2007 (3.8MB mp3)
--Jennifer Hardin, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of Fine Arts,
St. Petersburg, Florida, Augustus
Saint-Gaudens's Diana of 1891-93: Critical and Public Response to a Singular
American Nude, July 13, 2007 (3.6MB mp3)
--David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor Art, Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, NC,
War Relief: Saint-Gaudens's Shaw Memorial on Boston Common and the Battle Over
Civil War Memory, July 13, 2007 (3.6MB mp3)
--Thayer Tolles, Associate Curator, Department of American Paintings and
Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
The Afterlife of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1907-1919, July 13, 2007 (4.1MB
mp3)
On Jose Clemente Orozco's work at Dartmouth: The Epic of American Civilization
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Take a tour with Assistant Professor Mary Coffey of the Art History
Department, Dartmouth College. Professor Coffey is a specialist in Latin
American art.
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Listen to a question-and-answer session about Orozco's commission and
experience at Dartmouth with independent scholar Dr. Jacquelynn Baas, Director
Emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive and first Director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth
College.
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Take a tour with Professor John Watanabe of the Anthropology
Department at Dartmouth College. Professor Watanabe is a Latin American
and Mesoamerican specialist.
Brian Kennedy, Director of the Hood Museum of Art, discusses the role of a college or university museum in the academic enterprise, the job of stimulating audiences with provocative material, and the business of fine art museums worldwide in this "Views from the Green" podcast for Dartmouth College
Peter Irniq, artist and former Commissioner of Nunavut, discusses the recent
formation of Nunavut as a Canadian Territory, insights into Inuit culture, the
tradition of Inuksuit, and the nature of the Inuksuk that he
built on the Dartmouth College campus in association with the exhibitions
Our Land: Contemporary Art from the Arctic, spring 2007, and Thin
Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, winter and spring
2007 (mp3)
Nicole Stuckenberger, curator of Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment (winter and spring 2007), discusses the exhibition on Vermont Public Radio.
Artist El Anatsui discusses El Anatsui: GAWU, winter 2007 (mp3, video)
Australian Indigenous art scholar Franchesca Cubillo discusses Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, autumn 2006 (mp3)
The Hood Museum of Art at Twenty (video)
The Construction of the Museum (video)
Peter Irniq, artist and former Commissioner of Nunavut, lectures and presents his Inuksuk, a stone "likeness of a person" (video)
