The Hood Museum is currently closed on Sundays until further notice. We remain open on Saturdays 10:00 am–5:00 pm, and plan to offer Sunday hours again soon!
November 30, 2023—Hanover, N.H.— The Hood Museum of Art will present the first major solo museum exhibition of photographs by Chemehuevi artist Cara Romero, titled Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light). The exhibition will be on view
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.
On view now through April 12, School Photos and Their Afterlives sets an array of school photos from across photography's histories and geographies in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who have reframed them.
In 1934, in Siedlce, Poland, a group of young girls are studying for their Matura—the centralized state exams that would certify their high school graduation.
