Hidden Histories: Art, Provenance, and the Nazi Era
Sadie Weil '25, Mellon Special Project Intern
Published by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, 2025, 4 pages
This exhibition provides insight into the Hood Museum's Nazi-era provenance research initiative. While the exhibited artworks span diverse time periods and media, they are united by significant gaps in their ownership histories as well as their connections to dealers who sold looted art. By examining these red flags in provenance, this exhibition explores the ethical complexities of art acquisition and stewardship.
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.