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(11/10/97 11:00am)
The visual arts of eighteenth-century France was a popular topic this weekend at the Hood Museum of Art. In a two-day symposium titled "Love and Enlightenment" seven art historians presented scholarly lectures on a variety of topics.
(10/23/97 9:00am)
Anyone who has experienced the vibrant colors of New Mexico Southwest understands the spiritual intonations that the ruddy soil of the Southwest can evoke. Works of pottery created from its clay capture the essence of the land and its indigenous people.
(10/15/97 9:00am)
In celebration of William Hogarth's three hundredth birthday, the Hood Museum of Art presents "'Pictur'd Morals': Prints by William Hogarth," an exhibition that focuses on satirical depictions of eighteenth-century British society and its morals.
(10/06/97 9:00am)
A new exhibition titled "Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France" opened at The Hood Museum of Art this past Saturday.
(10/02/97 9:00am)
Frequent visitors to the Hood Museum of Art know that Dartmouth's mecca of visual artifacts was closed during the summer so that various renovation and maintenance projects could be completed. Fortunately, the Hood reopened its doors on September 16 after numerous projects most unnoticeable to patrons were finished.
(02/13/97 11:00am)
Whether he writes about a childhood picture of his wife, a Degas pastel drawing of ballerina dancers or his view of the moon through the lens of an old telescope, Michael Collier is a poet who writes from close observation.
(01/28/97 11:00am)
The process of creation can best be detected in an artist's drawings. A painter's sketches show the development of ideas and designs that will later appear on larger oil masterpieces. In this smaller, more personal arena, the essence of an artist is often captured in drawings done without any audience in mind.
(01/16/97 11:00am)
Dartmouth College welcomes a New Hampshire-born fiction writer to the campus. The Department of English presents a prose reading by the novelist Laurie Alberts, who will read from her latest book "The Price of Land in Shelby" this afternoon.
(01/09/97 11:00am)
If you are looking for a warm diversion in the midst of the latest blast of bone-chilling weather to sweep through the Upper Valley, a reading by the poet Lucie Brock-Broido is sure to warm the soul this Thursday evening.
(11/26/96 11:00am)
The Romantic idea that an artist is an inspired genius who communicates part of his soul through his visual, literary or musical creations incorporates an autobiographical element into the creation process.
(11/12/96 11:00am)
Mythological legend recounts that Medusa's gaze turned her admirers into lifeless stone bodies. Harriet Hosmer's marble neoclassical bust of "Medusa" (1854), a recent acquisition for the Hood Museum of Art, captures in stone her perplexing demeanor before Medusa metamorphoses into a Gorgon.
(10/24/96 9:00am)
The Hood Museum of Art recently acquired an important addition for its collection of African art with the purchase of a power figure from the former Kongo Empire of Central Africa, now the Republic of Zaire.
(10/18/96 9:00am)
With a distinctive blend of humor and gravity, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Simic delighted his audience with a poetry reading delivered before a full audience in the Wren Room of Sanborn Library yesterday.
(10/17/96 9:00am)
Mark Rothko's impressive color-block painting titled "Orange and Lilac Over Ivory" (1953) (298.5 x 232.4 cm) dominates the second floor foyer of the Hood Museum of Art. As an excellent example of Abstract Expressionism, it is a must-see for anyone interested in contemporary art.
(10/14/96 9:00am)
The Hood Museum of Art celebrated the opening of two new exhibitions on African Art with a lecture and gallery reception this weekend.
(10/03/96 9:00am)
While students affiliated with the art history and studio art departments regularly venture to the Hood Museum of Art, most students admit that they have never visited the museum, or have only been inside very briefly.
(11/10/95 11:00am)
When an author can invoke vivid memories from a reader's own life, the writing moves beyond the form on the paper and into the reader's psyche. The work then achieves a point of influence when an author reads her work to a room of softly smiling, all-too-knowing listeners who are right there with her because they are survivors of the words and actions of the story.
(11/03/95 11:00am)
If you are a regular viewer of Late Night with Conan O'Brien or the Jon Stewart Show, then you have certainly seen them. For all those avid readers of the national music publication Spin, you've caught their profile within its glossy covers.
(10/20/95 10:00am)
An educator and authority on feminist theory, bell hooks presented a brown bag lunch discussion and an evening lecture as part of the year-long series "What is Feminism," sponsored by the Women's Resource Center, the Rockefeller Center and the Afro-American Society.