Alumna to Lecture on Modernist Architect Edward Durell Stone

*A video of Mary Anne Hunting’s October 3 lecture is available here. “Colossus, visionary, giant”—these are just some of the superlatives used to describe modernist architect Edward Durell Stone in his prime in the late 1950s when he emerged as one of the first “celebrity architects,” said architectural historian Mary Anne Hunting in a recent…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 20, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni

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Andrew Graciano To Deliver Goldberg Lecture on September 26

Andrew Graciano, associate professor of art history, associate chair and graduate director in the department of art, University of South Carolina, will present the fall 2013 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, September 26, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is titled Joseph Wright’s Academy by…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 3, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Features Hans Hinterreiter Through September 12

Paintings of the Swiss abstractionist Hans Hinterreiter are on view through Thursday, September 12, in the Fine Arts Gallery located in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. The exhibition, titled Hans Hinterreiter: A Theory of Form and Color, covers almost fifty years of Hinterreiter’s artistic career. The earliest works in the exhibition are tempera…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 30, 2013 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Sacred Ecology Symposium Organized by History of Art, Anthropology Professors

Sacred Ecology: Landscape Transformations for Ritual Practice, an all-day symposium organized by Betsey Robinson, associate professor of history of art and classical studies, Tracy Miller, associate professor of history of art and Asian studies, and John Janusek, associate professor of anthropology, will be held on Friday, August 30, at the Sarratt Student Center. Hosted by…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Present Talk to Berlin Historical Association

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, will give a talk in Berlin entitled A Non-Fictional Thriller: Henry Ries, the Quakers, the State Department and My Mother’s Dramatic Rescue from Nazi Germany. Fryd, niece of the New York Times photographer Henry Ries (1917-2004), will address the Berlin Historical Association on June 25 at the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 25, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Department to Honor HART Graduates at Reception on May 9

History of Art majors and minors and their families are invited to attend the department’s reception for our graduating seniors on Thursday, May 9, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The event will be held in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, and awards will be announced at 3:30 p.m. Graduates and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 8, 2013 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Student Research Symposium Slated for Thursday, April 18

Graduating seniors and history of art majors Katherine Calvin, Jordan Comstock, Lexi McColl, and Caroline Passano are the featured speakers at the third annual Student Research Symposium on Thursday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in Cohen 203. A reception in the atrium will immediately follow the symposium. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 16, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Free Coffee Available in the VRC Now Through Final Exams

As the spring semester comes to a close, the Visual Resources Center invites students, faculty, and staff to join us for a free cup of coffee—or two or three—in Cohen 134. Coffee will be available throughout the day for the next two weeks, beginning Monday, April 15, through Thursday, May 2. Pour yourself a cup…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 12, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Johns to Chair Session at Eighteenth-Century Studies Meeting

Christopher Johns, Norma L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will chair the “Anne Schroder New Scholars Session” on Friday, April 5, at the 44th annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held in Cleveland, Ohio. The session showcases the current research of four young art historians and is named…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 1, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Highlights British Art in Exhibit Opening March 13

British art from Vanderbilt University’s Fine Arts Gallery Collection is the focus of an exhibit titled Four Hundred Years of British Art, which will open on Wednesday, March 13, in the Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Hall with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. This comprehensive survey—the first of its kind in more than…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 4, 2013 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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