Robert Barsky: Dada Hitchhikes a Ride to America! Lecture on Tuesday, April 4

Robert Barsky, professor of English and chair of department of French and Italian, will discuss the Beat Generation’s affinity for all things Dada in a talk to be held on Tuesday, April 4, at 5:30 pm in Cohen Memorial Hall, room 203. Barsky will offer examples from the poetry, songs, and general comportment of Allen…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 3, 2017 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Moveable Dada (This is Not Your Dada’s Dada!): An Evening of Art, New Music, and Conversation

Moveable Dada (This is Not Your Dada’s Dada!): An Evening of Art, New Music, and Conversation will be held on Thursday, March 23, beginning at 7 pm in Vanderbilt’s Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Memorial Hall. This program is an exciting collaboration between the Fine Arts Gallery and the Blair School of Music, with the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 22, 2017 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Exhibit on Dada and the Continuing Allure of Anti-Art Opens Thursday, March 16

Recognizing the centenary and far-reaching importance of a pivotal modern art movement, the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery has partnered with Vanderbilt’s W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies to present The Dada Effect: An Anti-Aesthetic and Its Influence, an exhibition that will be on view from March 16 through May 27. An…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2017 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Marilyn Murphy’s Exhibition Opens January 19 in Fine Arts Gallery with a Surreal Twist on Reality

In honor of Department of Art professor and artist Marilyn Murphy, who retires this year after 37 years of teaching, the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery will feature many of her oil paintings and drawings in an exhibition entitled Marilyn Murphy—Realism Subverted. The opening reception is Thursday, January 19, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm in the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 16, 2017 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Opens Exhibit on Race, Sports and Vanderbilt on Friday, September 23

The late 1960s, now fifty years in the past, remains a period that is recalled with a variety of interpretations—some accurate, some highly selective, some inaccurate—by those who lived through it. The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery presents Race, Sports and Vanderbilt: 1966–1970, which opens Friday, September 23, in Cohen Memorial Hall and highlights artifacts,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 21, 2016 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Margaret Walker Reveals Storied Past of Fine Arts Gallery Painting

My path to museum work began with degrees in both history and art history and an interest in the intersection of art and war.  With many artworks, what is visible presently is only the beginning of the story,  Madonna and Child with St. Anne, a Northern Renaissance devotional scene by Goswyn van der Weyden (ca. 1399-1464),…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 30, 2016 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Shirin Neshat’s Photographs Given to Fine Arts Gallery To Spark Cross-Cultural Dialogue at Vanderbilt

Two compelling photographs from Shirin Neshat’s monumental series Our House is on Fire (2013)—created in the wake of the Arab Spring—were recently given  to the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Art as Activist program. Vanderbilt is one of 33 colleges and universities chosen as a recipient of this gift, which…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 29, 2016 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Millspaugh Fund Supports Conservation Work For Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery

As part of an ongoing effort to conserve key artworks in the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery’s collection, Juno and Argus, Guardian of the Jupitern Herds was restored earlier this year and welcomed back for use in teaching and exhibitions. This seventeenth-century Flemish painting is of the School of Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), who was a student…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 28, 2016 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Exhibit Opening June 10 Explores Poetry and the Landscape Tradition

“Pastorals, Landscapes, and the Arcadian Vision,” on view at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery from June 10 through September 9, explores how artists  for centuries have rendered nature in a tranquil, idyllic form.  The exhibition, housed in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, features more than 50 paintings and works on paper from…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 7, 2016 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Department to Honor HART Graduates at May 12 Reception and Awards Ceremony

History of Art majors and minors and their families and friends are invited to attend the department’s reception and awards ceremony for our graduating seniors on Thursday, May 12, from 2 to 4 pm. The event will be held in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, and awards will be presented…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 3, 2016 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni

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