Bonna Wescoat to Lecture on Parthenon Ionic Frieze on October 22

Bonna Wescoat, professor of classical art and archaeology at Emory University, will give the first Archaeological Institute of America lecture of the academic year on Tuesday, October 22, at 7 pm at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. Her lecture is titled “Seeing is Believing: Nashville Parthenon Sheds New Light on the Visibility of the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 21, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Space 204 Exhibit Celebrates Susan DeMay and Forty Years in Clay

Vanderbilt’s Department of Art welcomes an exhibition celebrating four decades of art by Susan DeMay, senior lecturer in ceramics. Career Highlights: 40 Years in Clay will be on display in Space 204 from Thursday, October 17, through Friday, November 22. DeMay will present a gallery talk on Thursday, October 17, at 3 pm prior to…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 15, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver to Present Paper at American Art Symposium

Since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, Africa has played an important role—albeit shifting, contested, and often unseen—in the history of art of the United States. Rebecca VanDiver, senior lecturer in modern and contemporary art history, will present a paper, Routes to Roots: Loïs Mailou Jones’s Engagement with Africa and the African Diaspora, 1938-70,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 1, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Announces Latest Exhibit and Opening Reception

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery celebrates the opening of their latest exhibit, Difficult Art and the Liberal Arts Imagination, with a reception on Friday, September 27, from 5 to 7 pm in Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. Martin Rapisarda, associate dean of the College of Arts and Science, who curated the exhibit, will make…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 23, 2013 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Four HART Professors Celebrate Service Anniversaries

The History of Art Department recognizes four professors who are celebrating service anniversaries this year. Robin Jensen, the Luce Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship, and Christopher Johns, the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Art, have each taught at Vanderbilt for ten years. Mireille Lee, assistant professor of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 23, 2013 in HART, VRC

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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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Betsey Robinson Receives Chancellor’s Award For Research

Betsey Robinson, associate professor in the departments of history of art and classical studies, received the Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Vanderbilt Fall Faculty Assembly on August 22. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos recognized Robinson for her groundbreaking research in classical archaeology and art history, citing her monograph, Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 23, 2013 in HART, VRC

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