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Hollywood Photos at the Hood

April 11, 2022

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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.

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    Indigenous Australian artists discuss their bark paintings with museum curators in art storage.

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    "Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala" Premieres at Hood Museum of Art in September 2022

    March 22, 2022

    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.

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