Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity

The Archaeological Institute of America lecture series will conclude this semester with the Joukouwski Lecture delivered by John Pollini, professor of classical art and archaeology in the department of art history at the University of Southern California. His lecture, entitled “Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity,” will be held on Thursday, April 4,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 1, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Huey Copeland to Deliver Goldberg Lecture on March 14

Huey Copeland, director of graduate studies and associate professor of art history at Northwestern University, will present the spring 2013 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, March 14, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. In his lecture, Relative Fictions, or, Incidents in the Life of Modernism, drawn from…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 4, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Tsakirgis to Lecture on Dinsmoor and Design of Nashville Parthenon

Barbara Tsakirgis, associate professor of classics and history of art, Vanderbilt University, will deliver the American Institute of Archaeology lecture on Tuesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. Her lecture is entitled “The Athens of the South: William Bell Dinsmoor and the Design of the Nashville Parthenon.” Dinsmoor was…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 4, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Lecture at Pierpont Morgan Library

Christopher M. S. Johns, Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will lecture on Piranesi and the Warwick Vase: Image, Text, Fragments and Fictions in European Neoclassicism at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York on March 4. The lecture is part of a symposium devoted to artist’s letters. The Morgan Library has…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 26, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Alexandra Carpino To Deliver the Cinelli Lecture on February 5

Alexandra Carpino, professor of art history and department chair of comparative cultural studies at Northern Arizona University, will deliver the American Institute of Archaeology’s annual Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology on Tuesday, February 5, at 7 p.m. at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. Carpino’s lecture, Etruscan Faces: From the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 30, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Peter Parshall To Deliver Goldberg Lecture on January 24

Peter Parshall, curator of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from 1999 to 2010, will present the spring 2013 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, January 24, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is titled The Concept of Aesthetic Disinterest: G….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 14, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Nikos Xanthoulis to Present Kress Lecture-Concert on October 25

Nikos Xanthoulis, associate researcher with the Academy of Athens, Greece, and head of educational programs with the Greek National Opera, will deliver the Kress Lecture for the Nashville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America on Thursday, October 25. His lecture, “Ancient Sounds of Greece,” will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Nashville Parthenon. Using…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 22, 2012 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Julia Murray to Examine Cult of Confucius in Goldberg Lecture

Julia K. Murray, professor of art history in the departments of art history, East Asian studies, and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will deliver the Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, November 8, at 4:10 p.m. in Cohen Hall 203. Her lecture is entitled “The Cult of Confucius and the Shrine…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 2, 2012 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Courtney Martin in Conversation with Frank Bowling at the Tate

Courtney Martin, assistant professor of history of art, has organized an exhibition at the Tate Britain that opened on April 30 and features a series of “poured” paintings that British Guyana-born abstract artist Frank Bowling began in New York in the early 1970s. Martin will travel to London this month to participate in an artist’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 1, 2012 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Lecture in Berlin and Paris This Fall

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, currently a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität für Nordamerikastudien, Berlin, will lecture in Berlin and Paris this fall. As part of the Kennedy Institute’s lecture series, “The Sixties—America’s Longest Decade,” Fryd will address “The Sixties in American Art History: Media…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 1, 2012 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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