Leonard Folgarait to Explore “Edgar Degas: A New Vision” with VU Alums at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts

The Houston Vanderbilt Club is hosting an evening at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts with Leonard Folgarait, professor of history of art, as he explores Degas: A New Vision on Thursday evening, October 27, at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. On view through January 16, the exhibit offers the most significant international survey…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 26, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Neil Silberman to Deliver AIA Lecture on Thursday, October 27, at the Nashville Parthenon

There’s a revolution happening today in the way we value, discover, and imagine the past. On the negative side, ancient sites by the thousands—not only in the Middle East but all over the world—are being bulldozed, looted, vandalized, or blown up or merely vandalized. Feature films, bestsellers and specialized cable documentaries hopelessly muddle archaeological fiction…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 24, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Leonard Folgarait Explores Mexican Muralism at Cheekwood Workshop on October 21

Leonard Folgarait, professor of history of art, and Brian Greif, creator of the Nashville Walls Project, will offer a professional development workshop at Cheekwood on Friday, October 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The workshop is entitled “Street Stories: Urban Art in Mexico and Nashville.” Folgarait will explore Mexican muralism with workshop participants, and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 20, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Elizabeth Moodey’s “Art of the Book” Student-Curated Exhibition Cited as Successful Collaboration with Vanderbilt Library

Elizabeth Moodey, associate professor of history of art, and her HART 2288 seminar students this past spring chose and researched the works in an exhibition, Book as Art: Medieval Necessity and Modern Invention, currently on view in the lobby of the Heard Library through March 2017. They investigated medieval and contemporary artists’ books to deduce…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 18, 2016 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Examines Black Feminist Curatorial Practices of the 1970s

In the fall of 1978, Corcoran Gallery of Art registrar Theresa Simmons, Renwick Gallery museum technician Edith T. Martin, and others organized a national show of black women artists to coincide with the 1979 annual meeting of the College Art Association. The show never secured adequate funding and was canceled. Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 18, 2016 in HART, VRC

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Screening of “The Mill & The Cross” at Sarratt Cinema on October 19

The Mill & The Cross is a film in which director Lech Majewski restages Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1564 painting, “The Way to Calvary.” Majewski, a Polish filmmaker and video artist, brings the viewer inside the painting with immersive period detail and extraordinary digital effects. The film will be screened in Sarratt Cinema on Wednesday,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 17, 2016 in Events, HART, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Moderates Panel on Images of Ferguson at Southern Festival of Books on Saturday, October 15

Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American Art, will moderate a panel entitled “The Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography: Images from Ferguson” on Saturday, October 15, from 3 to 4 pm as part of the annual three-day Southern Festival of Books in downtown Nashville. The panel, held at the Nashville Public Library, features Pulitzer…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 11, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Deliver Dickson Memorial Lecture at Penn State on October 13

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will address “Preserving the Patrimony: Cultural Properties and the Rise of Museums in Enlightenment Rome” as part of the Dickson Memorial Lecture Series at Penn State University on Thursday, October 13. The Dying Gaul, known as the Wounded Gladiator in the eighteenth…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 11, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Joseph Rife to Examine Religious Life of Vibrant Community at Kenchreai in September 29 Archaeology Lecture

The port of Kenchreai, near Corinth in southern Greece, flourished from the Roman Empire through Late Antiquity (1st-7th centuries) as one of the busiest commercial centers in the region. It was also a crossroads for the exchange of ideas, styles, languages, and beliefs. Like many provincial ports of the eastern Mediterranean under Roman rule, the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 27, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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HART Welcomes Shelby Merritt as Assistant Visual Resources Curator

Not everyone realizes this, but Florida is as much rural cattle pastures and dusty orange groves as it is sunny beaches and crowded theme parks. Coming from a proud working-class family of “true Floridians” (not transplants), my artistic tendencies and academic aspirations were initially met with puzzlement. It has taken the course of a bachelor’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 27, 2016 in HART, VRC

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