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

March 22, 2022

The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire makes history this fall when it debuts Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala, the first major exhibition of Aboriginal Australian bark paintings to tour the United States. On view from Sept. 3 through Dec.

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Welcome Back!

September 08, 2021

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"Every reopening these days is another positive sign. The Hood Museum's reopening was likewise an important signifier of this special time. That one simple act—inviting the public back into our galleries—speaks volumes about where we have been and where we are headed. Some of the spaces in our galleries still echo the demands of pandemic life, such as wide gaps between works of art, but others have been installed with the new now in mind.

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    A sculptural 3D painting that employs cloth, paint, and various found objects.

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Hood Museum Celebrates Significant Acquisition from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation

September 08, 2021

This year, the Hood Museum of Art made a major acquisition of ten works of art from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation that dramatically expands the story of American art it tells by including several African American artists from the southern United States. These works will transform the Dartmouth College collection and allow new meanings to emerge from their connections to its current holdings.

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