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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...
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...
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...
Inspired by theorist Guy Debord's 1967 book Society of the Spectacle , the exhibition Separation Perfected examines the paradox of our hyper-connected yet isolating world. In particular, it traces the shift from physical spaces to digital realms, where mediated images have...
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Making Colors in Europe, 1400–1800 examines artistic production in the early modern period through the lens of its distinctive colors; recipes for pigments, dyes, and glazes were often closely guarded secrets and critical to the value of a work of art. The search...
Inspired by flowers, North American artists working across time, cultural traditions, and artistic styles have embraced floral beauty in the natural world. Beyond the Bouquet highlights works from the permanent collection that showcase how artists’ explorations of joy, ritual, and knowledge...