While curating From the Field: Tracing Foodways through Art, my co-curators and I spoke extensively about our collective lived experiences with and relationships around food but also about the traditions, spaces, and habits that shaped them. Do you routinely sit…
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This past February, the museum celebrated its first-ever Lunar New Year event. The not-so-secret anxiety of our programming creators (and party planners of the world) is that for all your planning and time, no one will show up. However, I…
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Fabric is like air, it’s everywhere. —Artist Woomin Kim As a maker and museum worker, I’m often struck by how art making mimics acts of cooking. Wedging clay for ceramics uses muscles that become useful when you’re kneading bread, and…
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The Russo Atrium might be a space you walk through without taking note of your surroundings. If you are a Dartmouth student, you might be grabbing a snack at the Courtyard Café, passing through the area to drop off your…
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If you’ve been in our galleries recently, you might have noticed that labels for artworks by unidentified artists list the maker as “artist once known” rather than the more traditional “artist unknown.” The difference is subtle but important. “Artist unknown”…
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Imagine entering an art museum or gallery and finding every work of art lying on the floor. Disturbed? What I’ve just described is a world without mounts or mount makers. Thankfully, this is not the world we live in, unless…
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Flow. It’s uncanny how well Tod Williams and Billie Tsien anticipated the many needs of the new Hood Museum during the design process that led up to the 2019 opening of the expanded and renovated building. Every day, the staff…
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Unlike the work of mathematicians, that of most museum staff is not meant to be seen. The results must instead appear effortless, almost as though the building itself manifested the art in the galleries without the help of human hands.…
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The Hood Museum of Art is home to 65,000 objects, many of which were acquired by Dartmouth College long before the museum was even a thought in anyone’s mind. They were moved from building to building for decades, until they…
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Over the last five years, the Hood Museum of Art has been collaborating with the Dartmouth Sugarplum Dance Group, offering the galleries as a space for them to have periodic photoshoots. When the museum galleries are closed to visitors, Sugarplum…
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