Tim Winters to Lecture on the Parthenon Marbles in Nashville

Tim Winters, professor of classics in the department of languages and literature, Austin Peay State University, will deliver the American Institute of Archaeology lecture on Tuesday, February 26, at 7 p.m. at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. His lecture is entitled “Belle Kinney, Leopold Scholz, and the Parthenon Marbles in Nashville.” Winters (Ph.D., Ohio…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 25, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Lecture on Faith Ringgold in Paris on December 6

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, will lecture on “The Transgenerational Trauma of Slavery in Faith Ringgold’s Slave Rape Story Quilt ” in Paris on December 6 at the Terra Foundation for American Art Europe. Fryd is currently the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Faith Ringgold’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 26, 2012 in Events, HART, VRC

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HART Society to View Carrie Mae Weems Exhibit on November 9

Join the Vanderbilt History of Art Society for ARTini: Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on Friday, November 9. Shaun Giles, educator for outreach at the Frist, will lead an informal conversation about some of the works included in the exhibition. The group will…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 7, 2012 in Events, HART, VRC

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Opera at Ingram Hall Inspired By Paintings of Edward Hopper

Vanderbilt Opera Theatre (Gayle Shay, director) and Vanderbilt University Orchestra (Robin Fountain, conductor) will present Operas in One Act—two contemporary operas, each one act long, on November 9 (8-10 p.m.) and November 11 (2-4 p.m.) at Blair School of Music’s Ingram Hall. Later the Same Evening, written in 2007 by Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer John Musto,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 5, 2012 in Events, VRC

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Noted Archaeologist to Discuss Jezreel Expedition on November 5

Norma Franklin, noted field archaeologist, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, who recently launched the Jezreel Expedition in what was an ancient Israelite city and fortress, will lecture at the Parthenon on Monday, November 5. Her talk, Jezreel: The View from Jezebel’s Window, will begin at 7 p.m. The fertile Jezreel and Harod valleys,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 30, 2012 in Events, HART, VRC

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HART Sponsors Roundtable Discussion on October 18 in the VRC

Join the Vanderbilt History of Art Society (HART) for a roundtable discussion on Thursday, October 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the Visual Resources Center (Cohen 134). Among the topics addressed will be: why History of Art offers great preparation for a wide range of careers; internship opportunities at Vanderbilt, in Nashville, and beyond; available funding…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 12, 2012 in Events, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Liberia Retold Through Photographs of Tim Hetherington

                    Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, Photography by Tim Hetherington opens Friday, October 12, at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery and will be on view through December 6. An opening reception is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. in Cohen Memorial Hall on the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 4, 2012 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Courtney Martin in Conversation with Frank Bowling at the Tate

Courtney Martin, assistant professor of history of art, has organized an exhibition at the Tate Britain that opened on April 30 and features a series of “poured” paintings that British Guyana-born abstract artist Frank Bowling began in New York in the early 1970s. Martin will travel to London this month to participate in an artist’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 1, 2012 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Robert Storr to Present Goldberg Lecture on September 21

Artist and critic Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School of Art, will reflect on the work of internationally acclaimed photographer Carrie Mae Weems at the fall 2012 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Friday, September 21, at 1:10 pm in the Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center. A reception…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 6, 2012 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Event Celebrates Generosity of Tom Brumbaugh and Olen Bryant

Olen Bryant, Alan LeQuire, and Barbara Russell A colossal portrait head of Marian Anderson, internationally acclaimed contralto, from Alan LeQuire’s Cultural Heroes series was the centerpiece of an event honoring Tom Brumbaugh and Olen Bryant on June 24 at the Portland Public Library of Sumner County, Tennessee. Friends from across the region came to pay…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 11, 2012 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni

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