Hood Museum of Art — Attraction in Hanover

Excellent museum, but the curator captions next to 19th century paintings are pure 21st century revisionism of the extreme sort. Utterly out of context, especially when they refer to an English immigrant as an oppressor of indigenous folk when he depicts Lake George as wilderness in 1826 to be used as a sketch for an Indian themed work titled, "Last of the Mohicsns.". Compared to Europe, upstate NY in 1826 was wild indeed. Nor did Cole have anything to do with the native's demise, that lay more with small pox seventy years earlier caused by the natives digging up de eased colonial militia who died from the outbreak. Before olining on art, curators should know this history, a little of the Fort William Henry could have avoided the mere appearance of revisionist nonsense. For those seeking to declining art, return to Europe because even the so-called natives are more than 50% European to survive smallpox and the Spanish flu. Both ailments had 90% mortality rate on those of native stock. Hence the less than 50% today, or fractional. According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1/64 suffices. They are switching over to DNA...

We visited the museum last weekend to see the Cara Romero exhibit. This was our first visit to the Hood Museum of Art. We were blown from start to finish. The building is gorgeous and impressive. The staff we interacted with were all very welcoming and helpful. I asked about a gift shop but they do not have one. So, that staff member said they have stickers at the main desk for guests and just to ask. I did that and were got several stickers for keepsakes and to mail to our friend that told us about the Cara Romero exhibit. We loved everything about the museum and we plan to return again. It's a lovely drive from where we live and this is a perfect day trip. We are so thankful to have another museum on our growing list for our weekend getaways. Parking was easy and that's thanks to the museum for sharing parking information on...

They have went overboard with liberal language. Anonymous is too offensive, they now have changed anonymous to person who was once known. Talk about a mouthful to change a reasonable word to "less offensive" set of words.

More importantly they have a lot of art work that is supposed to be moving provactive trying to tell you something. Honestly, they did not speak to me, I didn't feel moved. Just felt like most were pictures that were designed to be proactive in some way and just really weren't. Maybe they need a better context to the exhibit, maybe or maybe they need to be mixed with some other art so the shock is there for each piece, otherwise they the shock value when they are all next...