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  • Career Workshop III: Art Galleries and Auction Houses, Jan 15 at 4:30

    January 8, 2026
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    Career Workshop III: Art Galleries and Auction Houses Thursday, January 15th at 4:30pm in Carpenter 106: Join us for the third installment in our Career Workshop series sponsored by Dartmouth's Department of Art History and the Dartmouth Center for Career Design. Speakers: Emily Crowley '06, Director, Head of Exhibitions and Publications, Acquavella Galleries and Devon Mifflin '21, Cataloguer, The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction, Sotheby's

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  • Inside the Senior Seminar: Rethinking Art History and the Contemporary Art Historian

    December 18, 2025
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    The Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Methods with Professor Elizabeth Kassler-Taub was offered this fall as the departmental culminating experience. Rather than concentrating on specific chronologies, geographical regions, or a set of prominent artworks, the seminar shifted its attention toward the art historical discipline itself, examining the history and evolution of art analysis from a critical, revisionist standpoint.

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  • Exploring Art Careers Beyond Dartmouth

    December 11, 2025
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    So what can you actually do with an art history degree? This is a question that the Art History Department answered with two workshops that took place on September 30th and October 7th. 

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  • A Trip to the Hood: European Art in the Age of Revolution

    November 19, 2025
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    This fall, students from Professor Katie Hornstein's class, European Art in the Age of Revolution (1750–1850), stepped into the Hood Museum's Bernstein Center for a change of pace in learning. In the study center, the edges of the room were lined with late 18th- and early 19th-century European objects. While many expected a traditional museum tour, they were invited, instead, to slow down and look.

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