Space 204 Exhibit Celebrates 30 Years of the Hamblet Award

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the gift from Clement H. Hamblet in memory of his wife, the Department of Art will showcase works from previous recipients of the Hamblet Award, given annually to a graduating senior. “The Gift: 30 Years of the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award” opens Thursday, September 25, at Space…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 23, 2014 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART Society to Host Tour of Frist Exhibit with Vivien Fryd

The HART Society will host a tour of “Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” an exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, on Thursday, September 18. Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, will lead the tour, and students and faculty should plan to meet in Cohen’s 21st Avenue lobby…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 9, 2014 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Student/Alumni, VRC

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AIA Lecture Features Lea Stirling and Her Work at Leptiminus

Lea Stirling, associate professor of classics, University of Manitoba, will deliver the first Archaeological Institute of America lecture of the academic year on Thursday, September 18, at 6 pm at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. Stirling will introduce us to her excavations at Leptiminus (Lamta), Tunisia, in her lecture titled Food, Funerals, and Fuel…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 9, 2014 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Fryd Teaches American Realism and Surrealism Course at the Frist

Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, taught a three-week course on American realism and surrealism in late August and early September at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville. Fryd led participants in understanding major movements within American art history from 1920 to 1950 as represented by works in the current exhibit,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 8, 2014 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, VRC

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Cohen Gallery Exhibit of Donna Ferrato’s Photographs Opens Friday

Donna Ferrato, a documentary photographer internationally acclaimed for her work to end family violence, on Friday, September 12, will debut the first gallery exhibition in her series that focuses on women who have left their abusers. I Am Unbeatable––Documenting and Celebrating Stories of Empowerment will be on display at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 8, 2014 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Lecture on Andy Warhol at Cheekwood on July 17

Fifty years ago, during the summer of 1964, Andy Warhol began working on silkscreen paintings of Flowers, a subject that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life. Best known for his vibrant pop imagery and searing commentary on art and popular culture, Warhol’s flower imagery reveals a softer, more intimate side of the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 15, 2014 in HART, HART in Nashville, Lectures, VRC

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Gallery Exhibit of Polish Theatre Posters in Honor of Don Evans

Presented in honor of the late Don Evans, who for much of his professional career taught art at Vanderbilt University, Curiouser and Curiouser—Avant-garde Polish Theatre Posters from the 1970s features a selection of posters given by Evans that are from a particularly rich period of Eastern European graphic art design. Evans, who developed a national…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 16, 2014 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Student-Curated Exhibit Features Objects from Ancient China

From Tomb to Temple: Unearthing Ancient China Through the Vanderbilt University Art Collection, an exhibit organized by the Department of History of Art in conjunction with the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, will open on Thursday, June 19, in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. The exhibit represents the first student-curated exhibit to be…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 11, 2014 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni

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Book by Christopher Johns Set for Fall 2014 Release

Until relatively recently, most scholars considered the notion of a Catholic Enlightenment either oxymoronic or even illusory, since the received wisdom was that the Catholic Church was a tireless and indefatigable enemy of modernist progress. According to Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, the eighteenth-century papacy recognized many…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 10, 2014 in HART, VRC

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Awards Presented at Reception for 2014 HART Graduates

History of Art majors and minors and their families were honored at the department’s reception for graduating seniors on Thursday, May 8, in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall. Elizabeth Schoenberg, who plans to attend medical school, received the Cooley Prize ($250) for the highest grade point average in the history of art. Three students…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 13, 2014 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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