James Wescoat to Address Water as Unifying Theme in Mughal Landscape

James Wescoat, MIT’s Aga Khan Professor of Architecture, will address “Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape” in a public lecture on Thursday, April 5, 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. An expert on the grand Mughal gardens built in the 16th and 17th centuries in what is now India and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 2, 2012 in HART, Lectures

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Betsey Robinson Receives Prestigious Book Award

Betsey Robinson’s book, Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia, volume 2 in the “Ancient Art and Architecture in Context” series of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton University, 2011), has received the 2011 PROSE award for Anthropology and Archaeology by the Professional Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 21, 2012 in HART, VRC

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Reflections of the Dutch Golden Age: Etchings by Adriaen van Ostade opens March 15

After Rembrandt, Adriaen van Ostade was the major Dutch etcher of the seventeenth century. An exhibit of Ostade’s etchings from the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery will be on display from March 15 through May 11 in the Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. The opening reception is on Thursday, March…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2012 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery

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Sculpture from Fine Arts Collection in Guggenheim Exhibitions

Upcoming Guggenheim exhibitions in New York and Spain will include a John Chamberlain sculpture from the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery collection. Chamberlain’s 1960 work “Maz” will appear in John Chamberlain: Choices, a comprehensive examination of the late artist’s work and his first U.S retrospective since 1986. Joseph Mella, director of the Fine Arts Gallery, recently…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 10, 2012 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery

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Arts of Japan Exhibit Opens January 12 in the Fine Arts Gallery

In observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Asian American Student Association at Vanderbilt University, the Fine Arts Gallery will hold an opening reception for its winter exhibit, The Arts of Japan, on Thursday, January 12, from 5 to 7 pm in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. More than 1,300…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 11, 2012 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART

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Romantic Art and the Natural Sciences: Focus of Goldberg Lecture on January 19

Dorothy Johnson, Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History, University of Iowa, will deliver the spring 2012 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture on Thursday, January 19, at 4:10 p.m. in room 203 of Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. Her lecture is entitled Elective Affinities: Romantic Art and the Natural Sciences from Girodet…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 10, 2012 in HART, Lectures

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Professor Thomas B. Brumbaugh, 1921-2011

It is with regret that we announce the death of Thomas Brendle Brumbaugh, professor emeritus, on December 18, 2011. He retired in 1985 from a lengthy career teaching art history survey, American art, nineteenth-century art, and Indian art at Vanderbilt, where he received the 1968 Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. His scholarly…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 3, 2012 in HART

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