Exhibitions Archive
Paintings, 1993–1999
Joe Novak
This exhibition explores the work of artist Joe Novak, Dartmouth Class of 1952 during a period of time when he focused primarily on painting. His paintings on canvas, abstract excursions into color and light, are infused with a meditative quality.
Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Asbury
High Society
The largest survey of psychedelic rock posters in more than twenty years, this exhibition presents selections from the extensive collection of Paul Prince and includes important examples by each of the "Big Five" artists of psychedelic poster design: Wes Wilson, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, and Alton Kelley. These works, intended to serve as ephemeral street advertisements, present a unique opportunity to observe the evolution of a psychedelic art form during a turning point in American consciousness.
Untitled (relationships between art and war)
Witness
James Nachtwey
The Hood Museum of Art presents this exhibition of approximately twenty photographs by world-renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey, who will be on campus as a Montgomery Fellow during the spring term in conjunction with the thirteenth annual Humanities Institute, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The institute, entitled The Near in Blood, the Nearer Bloody: Interethnic Civil War / Cultural Genocide / Cultural Resistance, will take place from March 25 through May 31 at Dartmouth College. Nachtwey, a Dartmouth graduate, is a member of the institute. His photographs document the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, famine in the Sudan, and the recent conflict in the Balkans, Chechnya, and Afghanistan.