Vivien Fryd to Present Paper at Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, will deliver a paper, “Henry Ries’ Iconic Photograph of the Berlin Airlift,” on October 18 at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. The seminar is sponsored by the Archives, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The iconic photographs of Henry Ries (1917-2004),…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 14, 2018 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Photographer B. S. Shivaraju Documents the Lives of Unsung Heroes

Named one of India’s top 15 rising artists, photographer B. S. Shivaraju (aka Cop Shiva) documents the complexity of rural and urban India through portraiture. He is fascinated with the idea of masquerade and the roles people play in public and private. His first professional project, “Being Gandhi,” reflects this interest in documenting the lives…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 14, 2018 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University

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Fine Arts Gallery Features Panel Discussion About Current Exhibit on September 12

More than 200 people filled the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery and atrium of Cohen Hall for the opening of I AM: Middle Eastern Women Artists and the Quest to Build Peace on Thursday, August 30. “We fail to leave an impact on the world unless we broadly engage the many ways that people are experiencing it,” said Chancellor…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 7, 2018 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Heeryoon Shin Presents Paper at European Conference on South Asian Studies

Heeryoon Shin, Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian Art, presented a paper, “Winged Fairies in the City of Shiva: The Amethi Temple in Banaras and Courtly Culture at the Margins,” at the European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) held July 24-27 in Paris, France. The overall theme addressed by Shin’s conference panel was “Major Patrons…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 7, 2018 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Former Goldberg Lecturer John Ott Expresses Gratitude to HART Department

John Ott, professor of art history, James Madison University, paid tribute to Vanderbilt’s History of Art department in his article, “Hale Woodruff’s Antiprimitivist History of Abstract Art,” which appeared this spring in the Art Bulletin 100:1 (March 2018). “I owe many individuals my warmest gratitude for their generous support of and incisive feedback on this project,”…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2018 in HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Exhibit by Middle Eastern Women Artists Celebrates Quest to Build Peace

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery will feature the contemporary artwork of Middle Eastern women in an East-West peace-building exhibition opening Thursday, August 30, in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, with a reception from 5 to 7pm in the atrium. I AM: Middle Eastern Women Artists and the Quest to Build Peace showcases the work…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2018 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Elizabeth Moodey Presents Paper at Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Nashville, home to the United Methodist Publishing House, Thomas Nelson, the Southern Baptists’ Lifeway Christian Stores, and Gideons International (of the ubiquitous Gideon Bibles), is a world center of religious publishing, primarily for mainline Protestants and evangelical Christians. The printing and distribution of the Bible being a major industry, it is not surprising that the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 10, 2018 in Conferences, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Hosts Commodore Classroom for Vanderbilt Alumni and Friends on June 14

The Nashville Chapter of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association invites alumni, families, parents and friends to Cohen Memorial Hall on Thursday evening, June 14, for a Commodore Classroom with Joseph Mella, director and curator of the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery. The event begins with a reception in the atrium and viewing of the featured gallery exhibit,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 7, 2018 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, News, Student/Alumni, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Present Paper at “American Latium” Conference in Rome

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will present a paper entitled “John SIngleton Copley in Rome: The Challenge of the Old Masters Accepted,” at an international conference, “American Latium: American Artists and Travellers in and around Rome in the Age of the Grand Tour,” on June 6-7 at…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 6, 2018 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Mireille Lee to Deliver Lecture on May 31 at Interdisciplinary Seminar in Paris

Mireille Lee, assistant professor of history of art, will present a lecture entitled “Mirroring Femininity: The Body and the Mirror in Ancient Greece” on May 31 at an interdisciplinary seminar in Paris. The overall theme of the seminar is “The Individual and his Body in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin.” Ancient Greek bronze mirrors provided women…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 22, 2018 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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