Vivien Fryd Delivers Paper on Kara Walker at Popular Culture Association Conference in Seattle

Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, delivered a paper addressing “Kara Walker’s About the Title:  Anti-Euro-American Colonialism and Imperialism” in the Popular Art, Architecture, and Design area of the Popular Culture Association Conference held in late March in Seattle, WA. Kara Walker’s About the title—I had wanted to title this “sketch after my Mississippi…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 8, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Lecture on Francisco Goya and the Alba Family at the Frist Center for Visual Arts

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes began his career as a painter in service to the Bourbon royal family and to a select cluster of noble families, including the Floridablanca, the Osuna, and especially the Alba.  In his noon lecture on April 7 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Christopher Johns, Norman L. and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 6, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Lectures, VRC

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Elizabeth Moodey Featured Lecturer at University of Wyoming’s Visiting Artists Series

Elizabeth Moodey, assistant professor of history of art, was invited by the Department of Art at the University of Wyoming to present a lecture as part of their Visiting Artists Series.  Her lecture on March 9 was entitled “Laying Out the Case for Crusade in a Medieval Chronicle.” Moodey also taught a seminar in their…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 6, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Mireille Lee Speaks at University of Louisville Spring Lecture Series

Mireille Lee, assistant professor of history of art, was among several scholars participating in a spring lecture series at the University of Louisville examining “Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World.” Her March 3 lecture was entitled “Mirror, Mirror:  Reflections of Femininity.”  A specialist in Greek art and archaeology, Lee has a particular interest in the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 5, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Event Spotlights Blair School of Music Faculty and Student Composers on March 29

Join the HART department and the University Fine Arts Gallery on March 29 at 7 p.m. for a special evening of music in the Cohen Gallery and the inaugural performance of four short compositions to be presented in conjunction with Close Readings: American Abstract Art from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection.  A reception…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 29, 2016 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART VRC Staff Attend ARLIS/NA + VRA 2016 Joint Conference, Seattle, WA

Art-affiliated librarians en masse may not sound like anyone’s idea of a wild time, but HART’s Visual Resources Director Chris Strasbaugh and Assistant Curator Millie Fullmer certainly had a “Sleepless in Seattle” experience during last week’s ARLIS/NA + VRA 2016 joint conference.  ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America) and VRA (Visual Resources Association) share…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 18, 2016 in Events, HART, Technology, VRC

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Exhibit of American Abstract Art Opens March 17 in Cohen Art Gallery

Close Readings: American Abstract Art from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection opens this spring in celebration of recent gifts from the esteemed collections of Sarah-Ann and Werner Kramarsky and Edna and Monroe Kornfeld, while also drawing on the considerable strengths of the university’s permanent collection.  An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, March 17,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 15, 2016 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Goldberg Lecturer to Examine Islamic Gardens as Fully Sensory Environments on March 30

“Islamic gardens were fully sensory environments, delighting the eyes, nose, ears,” described D. Fairchild Ruggles, an historian of Islamic art and architecture and professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  “The fleeting sensations made by a fountain’s spray or the scent of a rose do not last in the body or…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 15, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns Examines Chinoiserie in the Context of Church and State Politics

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, has written a groundbreaking study that examines chinoiserie—European works of art and visual culture that were influenced by Chinese art—in the context of church and state politics, with particular focus on the Catholic missions’ impact on Western attitudes toward China and the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Kevin Murphy: Universities as Vanguards of Historical Preservation

The current issue of Vanderbilt Magazine (Winter 2016) features an article on a new campus land-use plan entitled “A Plan for All Seasons.”  Speaking at the all-day Vanderbilt University Land Use Symposium held on campus in early November, Kevin Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Department of History of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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