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Chasing Modernity

August 2 – September 6, 2025
Fleeting Moments and Elusive Urbanity

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  • A painting of a roof top in Chelsea, New York. Figures are depicted on the building's roof in pastel colors.

    John Sloan, A Roof in Chelsea, New York, about 1941, with additions in 1945 and 1951. © 2025 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Series

A Space for Dialogue 125

About

Chasing Modernity: Fleeting Moments and Elusive Urbanity explores parallels between New York’s 20th-century Ashcan School and 19th-century Parisian modernism, movements dedicated to capturing the ephemerality of urban life. Works on view include John Sloan’s A Roof in Chelsea, New York, Edward Steichen’s The Flatiron, and Leon Levinstein’s Pinstriped Suited Man.

A Space for Dialogue is a student-curated exhibition program that began in 2001. Hood Museum of Art interns create an installation drawn from the museum's permanent collection by engaging with every aspect of curation, from doing research and selecting objects, to choosing frames and a wall color, to planning a layout and writing labels and a brochure, to giving a public talk. There have been over 100 A Space for Dialogue exhibitions on a wide variety of themes.

A Space for Dialogue: Fresh Perspectives on the Permanent Collection from Dartmouth’s Students, founded with support from the Class of 1948, is made possible with generous endowments from the Class of 1967, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Jr. ’66, and Pamela J. Joyner ’79.

Exhibition Curator

Ellie Brown '25, Conroy Intern

Exhibition subject: A Space for Dialogue