The Hood Museum in Hanover in New Hampshire is one of the crown jewels among America’s hundreds of college and university art galleries. Oh, hell, why diplomatically hedge? So unlike me. It’s as close to perfect as a museum can be. If it’s not the best college art museum, it’s surely in the top three.
The Hood belongs to Dartmouth College but, unlike Dartmouth, it isn’t an old institution. Dartmouth owned lots of art through haphazard gifts, but it didn’t establish a modern museum in a purpose-made building until 1985. I visited last week for the first time in a few years owning to the Covid mass hysteria and hypnosis, which kept the Hood closed longer than almost all museums in America.
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