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article Points of View

January 07, 2016

Hood Museum of Art January 04, 2016, through March 13, 2016 The works of art in this exhibition, arranged in pairs, offer contrasting positions by artists on a variety of themes: men and women, the family, war and human suffering, landscapes and seascapes, images of others and of the self. Each pair is accompanied by a single question intended to provoke further questions about the artists’ individual approaches to their subjects: From what points of view (literal, emotional, intellectual) does the artist look at his/her subject? Is the artist’s stance celebratory? honorific? critical? a form of protest? In what ways does the artist communicate this to the beholder? Art history professors Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey curated this exhibition in conjunction with their course Introduction to the History of Art II, a survey of art and architecture from 1500 to the present. This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art and generously supported by the Harrington Gallery Fund. Curated by Joy Kenseth, Professor of Art History / Mary Coffey, Associate Professor of Art History / Amelia Kahl, Associate Curator of Academic Programming...

article Arts and Innovation Focus of ‘Campus Conversations’

May 02, 2014

President Phil Hanlon’s vision for an Arts and Innovation District involves a synergetic cluster that draws on the creative and innovative work already going on at the Hopkins Center, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Hood Museum of Art, and the new Student Innovation Center at 4 Currier Place.

article Meet Dartmouth’s New Faculty Members (part 5): Sung Lim Kim

March 23, 2012

Sung Lim Kim is assistant professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies and of art history. Originally from Seoul, she specializes in Korean art. Kim holds a PhD from the University of California – Berkeley, and comes to Dartmouth from a position as lecturer in UC Berkeley’s Department of the History of Art. Kim has also previously served as a curator and researcher at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.