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The Changing Figure in American Art examines a variety of figural paintings and sculptures to explore the range of content that can be mapped onto the image of a person, whether known to the artist or not. These works from throughout US history demonstrate the elasticity of meaning that can...
Holding Knowledge: The Tenenbaum Family Collection features highlights from a significant gift of 112 modern and contemporary Native American ceramic objects from the family of Lorlee and Arnold Tenenbaum '58. The exhibition's almost 50 works explore Pueblo, Hopi, and Diné or Navajo...
How do you get to work? Travel is a ubiquitous human experience, with the modern age broadening the scope of available transportation to a range and efficiency inconceivable less than a century ago. American travel culture has likewise evolved to serve the needs of its modern population, supporting...
Shared Ground explores Asian American art from the Hood Museum's collection by focusing on its cultural, social, and intellectual dialogues with broader American art. It seeks both to highlight the significance of Asian American art within the larger context of American art history and to...
Division of Labor: Work in the United States uses objects from the museum's permanent collection to explore US labor across its overlapping transitions from primarily agriculture to industry to office work between the 19th and the 21st centuries. The artworks also highlight alternative forms...
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...