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American Pop considers how artists respond to, appropriate, and critique popular imagery from visual culture in what is now the United States. By incorporating familiar symbols—from both pop culture and art history—the artists in this exhibition interrogate concepts such as consumer culture...
Featuring works from the 18th through the 20th centuries, this exhibition explores how art has played a role in defining, nurturing, and maintaining nationhood across what we now know as the United States.
Inhabiting Historical Time: Slavery and Its Afterlives explores slavery's impact and its enduring legacies via histories of oppression, resistance, subversion, and resilience. Objects related to these themes range from a 19th century ceramic by David Drake, an enslaved man, to Civil Rights...
Art Histories/Art Futures is an introduction to the Hood Museum's suite of exhibitions marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. This exhibition brings together artworks in different media by American artists that range from the second half of the 20th century to today. Here, we...
Movie musicals from Hollywood's golden age are some of the most well-known and beloved films of all time. This exhibition features portraits of artists who made the musical sing and dance in its heyday, but from an unexpected perspective. These images provide a window onto the behind-the-scenes...
Revolution Reconsidered: History, Myth, and Propaganda explores how visual representations of the American Revolution became, and remain, potent carriers of national history and identity. Beginning with Dartmouth's role in the Revolutionary era, the exhibition revisits well-known images of...