Hood Quarterly, spring 2003 Derrick R. Cartwright, Director
Derrick Cartwright recalls the complexities of acquiring the Hood's most recent work of art. Juan Muñoz's Figure Hanging from One Footis currently on display in the main stairway of the Hood Museum of Art; plans to install the work in the museum's Bedford Courtyard are also underway.
In 1973, Sebastião Salgado (born 1944) abandoned a promising career as an economist to pursue photography. Like his colleagueJames Nachtwey, Salgado has dedicated his career to documenting the lives of suffering and survival led by the world's refugee and migrant populations.
The Hood Museum of Art sent Kellen G. Haak, Collections Manager/Registrar and Repatriation Coordinator, to Southeast Alaska last November to deliver a Chilkat tunic from the collection to the Deisheetaan clan of the Kootznoowoo tribe of Tlingit Indians.
Five papers presented at a symposium held at the Hood Museum of Art in November 2000 form the core of the latest double issue of the journalWord & Image(January–June 2003).The papers explore the topic “Likeness in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Printed and Medallic Portraits in Renaissance and Baroque Europe.”