The Hood Museum: A SPACE FOR DIALOGUE GALLERY TALK
Fri, Jan 09
|Hood Museum of Art
You Just Got to Laugh
Time & Location
Jan 09, 2026, 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Hood Museum of Art, 6 E Wheelock St, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
About the event
Sara Shelton '26, Class of 1954 Intern
Why do we find things funny? Is it because we are uncomfortable or delighted or simply amused? You Just Got to Laugh focuses on how comedy shows up in art and how the viewer engages with it. Humor presents itself here in many forms—word games, staged scenes, or dress-up—and all of them introduce a break between our expectations and reality. In the end, we laugh, even if we feel we shouldn’t. This Space for Dialogue wants you to spend a few minutes laughing today, because even a little more of that is worth it.
For more information, contact:
Sharon Reedsharon.l.reed@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=79778