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(05/05/03 9:00am)
Doomed lovers, heart-wrenching drama, epic tragedy, sword fights and beautiful people galore -- believe it or not, these aren't the catch phrases for the current movie offerings at the local multiplex.
(04/14/03 9:00am)
Sometimes first impressions can be deceiving. This is not to say, for instance, that a picture initially perceived as beautiful is not beautiful. It very well may be. But often, it is the unobservable story that underlies this beautiful picture that can simultaneously be devastating and transform the viewer's encounter with the image.
(02/04/03 11:00am)
A photograph can immortalize the past. The simple click of a shutter can capture what might have otherwise been a fleeting and singular moment in time. Still, over the course of a century, contemporary perspectives on that past moment can change dramatically. As a result, the meaning entailed in a once-unambiguous photograph can instead prove anything but singular.
(01/29/03 11:00am)
Photography is by no means restricted to a single representation or interpretation of reality.
(11/25/02 11:00am)
The 10-year period between 1910 and 1920 may at first seem like an extraordinarily short time span in which to study innovations in art. In terms of the wave of modernism that swept through the art world in the early years of the 20th century, though, this single decade had an enormous impact on transforming the ways in which artists and their viewers would forever look at art.
(10/15/02 9:00am)
The enticement of looking beyond the familiar and re-examining the world from new perspectives lies at the heart of the work of Mexican painter, Jos Clemente Orozco. Between 1927 and 1934, Orozco made a name for himself in the United States, taking advantage of an American interest in all things Mexican while seizing the opportunity to expand the realm of his own artistic vision.
(02/04/02 11:00am)
Photojournalist Chester Higgins, Jr. visited the Hood Museum Friday to discuss his numerous acheivements in his field.
(01/24/02 11:00am)
For years, Dartmouth student artists have been trying to find an adequate and accessible space to display their work. This week, they finally get their chance.
(01/22/02 11:00am)
Images often speak much louder than words. In describing history, photographs tell many stories, both personal and universal, about the scenes they capture and about the people they depict.
(01/18/02 11:00am)
Not many people can look at a rotted tree trunk and sense its potential for artistic expression. Not everyone is Mel Kendrick.
(11/16/01 11:00am)
A painting does not just magically appear on the walls of a museum gallery. Likewise, an exhibition cannot be thrown together in a matter of days -- or even weeks.
(10/11/01 9:00am)
"Serendipity" is not a movie filled with surprises. Its very premise leaves little room for startling plot twists. In fact, everyone in the audience knows exactly what's going to happen.
(10/10/01 9:00am)
People express themselves in countless ways. Through writing, through music, through painting, through the sports they play, people search for and cultivate their own identities. But do these identities evolve in a vacuum, or are they instead deeply embedded in one's own complex history?
(07/05/01 9:00am)
Imagine the scene: Connecticut, circa 1800. You can almost see the weary traveler and his trusty steed now. They wind their way along a rural New England road. In the distance, the traveler sees a sign bearing a familiar and inviting image, the black silhouette of a horse. The traveler heaves a sigh of relief, knowing he has found a place to rest for the evening.
(02/05/01 11:00am)
Pablo Picasso is undoubtedly one of the great master artists of the twentieth century. Renowned for his Cubist techniques, Picasso was a prolific artist whose breadth of work has continually enticed and delighted museum audiences. Working from the turn-of-the-century through the early seventies, Picasso is most often characterized by his incomparable painting style.
(01/15/01 11:00am)
As an icon in American history, Benjamin Franklin is renowned for the versatility of his skills. His inventions, his politics and his printing are among the more common recollections of Franklin, but he seems to have had another lesser-known talent: poetry.
(10/16/00 9:00am)
Imagine for a moment that you were a modern day portrait-photographer. How would you create a portrait of yourself? What would your portrait of someone else look like? Can a photographic portrait really be anything other than a typical snapshot?
(10/09/00 9:00am)
Portraiture is a timeless artistic technique. Throughout the history of art, artists have employed the portrait style to capture something essential in their sitters. Whether realistic or abstract, historical or contemporary, portraits have the ability to convey many messages about both the sitters themselves and the societies in which they live.
(04/24/00 9:00am)
In the Japanese painting tradition, no single style or theme prevails. Instead, for centuries, Japanese painters have devoted their skills to the creation of exquisite folding screens, hanging scrolls and hand scrolls. The Hood Museum of Art presents a unique opportunity to explore this tradition in its newest exhibition, "Screens and Scrolls: Japanese Painting from the Ackland Art Museum."
(04/03/00 9:00am)
Unknowing visitors to the Hood Museum of Art might wander into the museum's newest exhibition and believe themselves to have stumbled upon an antiquated department store.