The 2008 exhibitions at the Hood Museum of Art put its permanent collections in the spotlight through innovative display and exciting loans from museums and collections around the world. The year opens with a large exhibition of paintings by contemporary artist Sean Scully. In the spring we are pleased to present the groundbreaking exhibition Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Several years in the making, Black Womanhood sheds new light on its subject via three intersecting perspectives—the traditional African, the colonial, and the contemporary global.
With Alma-Tadema and Antiquity: Imagining Classical Sculpture in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain in late summer, the Hood will present its magnificent work by the artist, A Sculpture Gallery (1874), along with X-rays of the painting, related drawings, prints, and photographs, and at least two of the original ancient Roman objects that Alma-Tadema personally examined and documented in the painting, on loan to the Hood from museums in Naples and Pompeii.
American Art at Dartmouth, on view in 2007, ushered in a new series of comprehensive exhibitions and publications about major areas of the permanent collection. It will be followed in fall 2008 with European Art at Dartmouth, presenting one hundred paintings, sculptures, and highlights from the Hood's renowned collection of Old Master prints. Also in the fall the Hood presents Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, and a selection of works highlighting two decades of work by Ben Frank Moss, artist and studio art professor at Dartmouth College.
We invite you to these exhibitions and their many related programs for visitors of all ages in the upcoming year. As always, admission is free to the Hood’s exhibitions and public programs for the entire family. Click here to download the Hood's 2008 general brochure, which contains a preview of the upcoming year's exhibitions.
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
