In the school’s official video, the shots of the Visual Arts Center start at 3:19. Several of the shots of the rooftops of the Hop appear to have been made with a radio-controlled helicopter: a private drone surveils Hanover.
In the section of the film called The Builders [8:04], the emphasis is on cross-disciplinary work. That was one of the original goals of the Hopkins Center as well, but now that the visual arts have moved to their own building, the Hop seems to be left with just the performing arts for cross-pollination.
Ken Burns has a nice quotation: Art “turns out to be the bright burning sun of this particular solar system called Dartmouth.”
Alex Hanson’s thorough article in the Valley News adds yet another possible name to the hat: The Black VAC.
Dartmouth has an announcement of the installation and one-year loan of Crouching Spider.
I am an upper valley resident, not Dartmouth connected.
I went to the New Loew auditorium at Black Visual Arts Center. I enjoy captioned films. I found that the seating arrangement, slope of seating, is too low for a smaller person to see the captions. I noticed many people having trouble that way. I feel that the screen needs to be moved up or they should go back to the old Loew auditorium for captioned films.
I wondered if others had the same reaction.