Dolls can be playthings—items which help us explore everyday life and fantasy—and objects of nostalgia. This selection of photographs features dolls in a variety of contexts, from domestic to uncanny.
On View
We invite you to explore art from cultures across the globe in the new and renovated galleries of the museum.
Los Mojados: Migrant Bodies and Latinx Identities highlights prints and photographs from the Hood’s collection that speak to the complexity of the US-Latinx experience.
We briefly survey contemporary art that is engaged with some of the signature issues addressed by artists today, including profound engagements with feminism, racism, and globalism, as well as national, ethnic, and gender identity.
While the museum‘s ancient and premodern collections are neither chronologically or geographically comprehensive, they are broad and rich.
Japanese woodblock-print artists produced numerous rich engagements with culturally resonant narratives that were often loosely based on historical events, then subsequently embellished in textual sources and their theatrical adaptations.
This installation presents the ways in which the aesthetic values and worldviews of different African socities in the past are still relevant to the contemporary social imaginary of the vast majority of people in Africa.