Whitney Museum of American Art

Kim Conaty, incoming director of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art, representing museum leadership, academic museums, collection stewardship and the next phase of the Hood after expansion.

Field Notes

After the Building, the Academic Museum Has to Prove Its Use

Kim Conaty’s appointment as director of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum is more than a move from the Whitney to a university museum. After a major expansion, the Hood’s next test is how its collection, building and academic mission become active inside student life, scholarship and public engagement.