Hood Museum of Art

10/09/2026

Read about the inspiration for the latest "A Space for Dialogue" exhibition, "Class, Community, and Commute" by Javier Baluyut, the museum's Mellon Special Project Intern.

The exhibition is on view through October 24 ✨

The Dartmouth sat down with curator Javier Baluyut ’26 to discuss his thoughts about our contemporary transit system and the values it reflects.

09/25/2026

Another successful pick-up day in the books! Thank you to all of the Dartmouth students (84 this year!) that came to borrow a work. 💚

Be sure to send us photos of the artwork in your living space 🤩 Until next year, SALAD!

09/24/2026

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Last week, our registration and collections team visited the Shelburne Museum to meet with fellow collections care specialists. While there, they were able to visit the exhibition “Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont,” featuring the Four Freedoms posters on loan from the !

08/26/2026

The wait is over. 🎉 We are excited to welcome Dr. Kim Conaty to Dartmouth as the next Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director of the Hood Museum of Art!

Kim comes to the from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. A specialist in modern and contemporary art with a focus on drawings and prints, Kim is currently the Nancy and Steven Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she first served as a curatorial intern and later as the coordinator of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. In 2017, she returned to the Whitney Museum as the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints, and in 2024 was named chief curator—one of the most influential curatorial jobs in the contemporary art world.

🔗 Click on the link to read the full story: https://bit.ly/45KZQnB

Keep an eye out for opportunities to meet Kim this fall. 🥳

08/24/2026

She's baaaack 👀

The bronze version of Ursula von Rydingsvard's "Wide Babelki Bowl" is now on view! Find this, and other works of public art, across the Dartmouth campus.

08/14/2026

Something ✨new✨ is up in our entrance gallery!

Last week preparators Matt Oates and Lauri Kobar installed a still life by Spanish artist María Blanchard, guided by paper templates of the fellow Cubist paintings and sculptures that will surround it. This group hang evokes the dense displays of salons, the annual Parisian exhibitions where such artworks were originally viewed.

Visit "Community and Exile: Artists in Paris, 1910–1939," on view through September 11, 2027.

08/07/2026

Every great chapter leads to the next.

Who will be selected as leader to carry the torch? 🔥

08/05/2026

🖌️✨🌷 We’ve been blown away by your creativity with Little Hood @ the Howe art kits!

Drop by Howe Library to pick up the newest art kit, inspired by exhibition “Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean.”

Missed the first round of art kits? There’s still some watercolor supplies left! 🎨

08/03/2026

A love letter to Director John Stomberg. 💌

Since joining as Director in 2016, John has . . .
🖼️ Curated 14 exhibitions (not including group shows)
🏺 Selected +66 works for the ’s collection
🚧 Supported the museum through an expansion, renovation, and reopening
🤩 Overseen +7,980 works added to the collection

Since reopening in 2019, under John’s leadership, the museum has seen . . .
🏛️ +180,000 total visitors
📚 +2,100 Dartmouth classes taught in BCOS
🎓 +31,000 Dartmouth students visiting the museum
🎨 +12,691 local and regional K–12 students in ArtStart and Images programs
🧐 +8,829 local and regional K–12 students on gallery tours

Thank you for over a decade of service, John. We will miss you!