HART Department Welcomes New Faculty This Fall

The fall semester always brings new faces and new courses into our midst, among them, two faculty members who recently joined Vanderbilt’s History of Art Department: Halle O’Neal, Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian Art, and Rebecca VanDiver, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History. O’Neal (University of Georgia, B.A.; University of Kansas, M.A., Ph.D.)…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 21, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Present Talk to Berlin Historical Association

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, will give a talk in Berlin entitled A Non-Fictional Thriller: Henry Ries, the Quakers, the State Department and My Mother’s Dramatic Rescue from Nazi Germany. Fryd, niece of the New York Times photographer Henry Ries (1917-2004), will address the Berlin Historical Association on June 25 at the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 25, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Lecture in Rome at International Conference

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will present a research paper on chinoiserie at the international conference “Torino Britannica,” held June 19-22 at the British School in Rome and the Centro di Studi di Venaria Reale in Turin. This interdisciplinary conference will examine a neglected aspect of eighteenth-century Grand…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 21, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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HART Professors to Lecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing

Betsey Robinson, associate professor of the history of art, and Tracy Miller, acting chair of the history of art department, will deliver comparative lectures on Thursday, May 23, in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Their overarching topic is Sacred Landscapes Real and Imagined: Role Reversals in the Study of Pre-modern Greek and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 20, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Department to Honor HART Graduates at Reception on May 9

History of Art majors and minors and their families are invited to attend the department’s reception for our graduating seniors on Thursday, May 9, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The event will be held in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, and awards will be announced at 3:30 p.m. Graduates and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 8, 2013 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Alumnus Creighton Michael Honors Professor Emeritus Milan Mihal

This summer the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery will host a special exhibition of Tapestry Suite by Creighton Michael, M.A. 1976, on view through Sunday, October 6, in the rear gallery space of Cohen Memorial Hall. Seven digital drawings, selected from Michael’s larger Tapestry series, were created by the artist in honor of Milan Mihal, professor…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 30, 2013 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Barbara Tsakirgis Lectures on Hellenistic Houses at Morgantina

Barbara Tsakirgis, associate professor of classics and history of art, was invited to lecture on Thursday, April 4, at a conference on Hellenistic houses and their functions held at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. Tsakirgis’s paper was entitled Decor, Deposits and Descriptions: an Analysis of Space in the Hellenistic Houses at Morgantina in Their…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 16, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Essay Illuminates Intriguing Problem in 18th-Century Studies Today

An essay by Christopher Johns, entitled “Erotic Spirituality and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris: The Curious History of Antonio Canova’s Penitent Magdalen,” was recently published in the Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (volume 42), edited by Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, and published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 2013….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 16, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Student Research Symposium Slated for Thursday, April 18

Graduating seniors and history of art majors Katherine Calvin, Jordan Comstock, Lexi McColl, and Caroline Passano are the featured speakers at the third annual Student Research Symposium on Thursday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in Cohen 203. A reception in the atrium will immediately follow the symposium. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 16, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Review of Camille Utterback’s Exhibit at the Frist through May 19

Camille Utterback’s exhibit, Tracing Time/Marking Movement, at The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, offers a divergence from the typical museum visit; it allows each visitor to be both viewer and participant. The exhibition, on view through May 19, features seven works of art, four of which require interactivity. The first work…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 15, 2013 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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