Exhibitions Archive
Africa on Display?
A Point of View
In the usual museum setting, African art displays aim to enhance our understanding of the diverse cultures to which they belong. A Point of View addresses the idea that, by the very nature of museum viewing and displaying, African arts often can tell us more about ourselves and our relationships to other cultures than about the cultures they are meant to represent.
How Geometry Shapes Composition and Perception
Shape and Shadow
Images of Childhood from the Classical Past
Coming of Age in Ancient GreeceIt is not widely known that ancient Greek artists were the first to create images of children that showed them as they were instead of as miniature adults. They also observed and recorded children’s characteristic gestures, their bonding with parents and caregivers, their various activities from learning to crawl to assisting in religious ceremonies, and their love of play. In the absence of extensive written testimony about children from this period, artifacts and images are a vital link to the lives of girls and boys from birth to adolescence.
Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past is the first major exhibition to explore these images of childhood from ancient Greece. Over 120 art objects on loan from American, Canadian, and European collections chronicle the emotional and familial environment in which children were raised, their participation in religious rituals, the commemorative objects that marked their early death, and their transition to adulthood. The exhibition also presents images and stories of children in mythology. Painted vases, sculptures, grave monuments, and artifacts such as toys and baby feeders bring ancient Greek children’s experiences to life.
Ceramics and the Question of Form vs. Function
Art and CraftConnecting with Audiences Through the Centuries
The Art of Acting from Stage to Screen
Regional Selections 30
The Hood celebrates thirty years of regional art exhibitions at Dartmouth College with Regional Selections 30, the happy result of a year of strong collaboration among twelve arts organizations in New Hampshire and Vermont. Recent works by area artists Ria Blaas, Bob Boemig, Peter Paedra Bramhall, Chris Calnan, Amparo Carvajal-Hufschmid, James McGarrell, Jerry MacMichael, The Main Street Museum, MANUAL, Petria Mitchell, Andy Moerlein, Lawrence Nowlan, Rebecca Purdum, Gary Haven Smith, and George Tooker were chosen by museum and nonprofit gallery directors across the region. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.