Last year, the Hood Museum of Art acquired more than 6,000 Hollywood photographs from the John Kobal Foundation. Michael Hartman, the associate curator of American art, discusses the history of the images and the collection, which include dazzling photographs of stars such as Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Buster Keaton, and Dolores del Río, pictured above from the 1928 film The Trail of '98.
From a remote corner of Australia has emerged one of the most powerful painting movements of our time. Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala traces more than 80 years of significant contributions to global modern and contemporary art by some of Australia's leading artists.
Each year, the Hood Museum of Art offers internships to Dartmouth students entering their senior year. In addition to working within administrative departments, most interns organize a unique Space for Dialogue installation.
