Chasing Modernity: Fleeting Moments and Elusive Urbanity
Ellie Brown '25, Conroy Intern
Published by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, 2025, 4 pages
Chasing Modernity: Fleeting Moments and Elusive Urbanity explores parallels between New York's 20th-century Ashcan School and 19th-century Parisian modernism, movements dedicated to capturing the ephemerality of urban life. Works on view include John Sloan's A Roof in Chelsea, New York, Edward Steichen's The Flatiron, and Leon Levinstein's Pinstriped Suited Man.
A Space for Dialogue is a student-curated exhibition program that began in 2001. Hood Museum of Art interns create an installation drawn from the museum's permanent collection by engaging with every aspect of curation, from doing research and selecting objects, to choosing frames and a wall color, to planning a layout and writing labels and a brochure, to giving a public talk. There have been over 100 A Space for Dialogue exhibitions on a wide variety of themes.
A Space for Dialogue: Fresh Perspectives on the Permanent Collection from Dartmouth's Students, founded with support from the Class of 1948, is made possible with generous endowments from the Class of 1967, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Jr. '66, and Pamela J. Joyner '79.