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A Seat at the Table explores the significance of the table through a selection of 20th-century artworks from the Hood Museum's extensive collection. It invites viewers to think about the ritual of sharing a meal and the ways in which gathering allows humans to connect and create meaning in...
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...
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...
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.
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...