HART Alumna Jennifer Klos Shares Her Curatorial Eye and Helps People Choose

Art is a part of our lives.  It can be a blend of old and new, sophistication and whimsy, design and deeper meaning. Based in Dallas, Texas, art advisor and HART alumna Jennifer Klos (BA’03) assists private collectors in the acquisition of fine and decorative arts, specializing in modern and contemporary art.  As president of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 20, 2017 in HART, News, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Featured in “Food for Thought” Series at the Frist Center for Visual Arts

In partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Office of Community, Neighborhood, and Government Relations, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts is presenting “Food for Thought: Changing the World,” a three-part series of lunchtime conversations with Vanderbilt professors, Frist Center curators, and other members of the Nashville community. The first session on October 10 featured Rebecca VanDiver,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 20, 2017 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, News, VRC

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Betsey Robinson Moderates October 20 Workshop Session on the Western Delta in Late Antiquity

The hinterland of Alexandria was the setting for some of the earliest and most important monastic settlements in late antique Egypt. It is this area that produced the famous “sayings of the desert fathers,” and it is in this area, above all, that Christian pilgrims from the Roman Empire encountered Egyptian monasticism. This is the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 19, 2017 in Conferences, Divinity School, Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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Stephen Davis to Deliver Keynote Lecture at Interdisciplinary Workshop on Late Antiquity October 19-20

Stephen J. Davis, professor of religious studies and Near Eastern languages and civilization at Yale University, will deliver the keynote lecture, “The Archaeology of Early Christian Monasticism: Evidentiary Problems and Criteria” on Thursday, October 19, at 4:10 pm in Cohen Hall 203 followed by a reception.  Davis will open ReLACS 2017, an interdisciplinary workshop on…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 17, 2017 in Conferences, Divinity School, Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Impact of First World War on Avant-Garde Modernism and Beauty Culture Examined in October 9 Goldberg Lecture

David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University, examines medical and humanitarian efforts to restore the faces of soldiers badly disfigured by trench warfare in the First World War and considers the downstream effects of these efforts on both avant-garde modernism and the commercial beauty culture that arose after the armistice. Lubin…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 5, 2017 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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Richard Ormond Lectures on John Singer Sargent as Official War Artist on October 6 at the Frist

John Singer Sargent’s engagement as an official war artist during the First World War is an involved and protracted story. It led to the creation of his masterpiece Gassed (1919), a highlight of the Frist Center’s current exhibition World War I and American Art, and to a sequence of remarkable watercolors painted near the front line. It…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 4, 2017 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Lectures, News, VRC

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Alumna Lydia Ohl Introduces Work of Cai Guo-Qiang and Screening of “Sky Ladder” on October 5

Lydia Ohl, a Vanderbilt HART major who graduated in 2011, will present “Art History in Real Time: Archiving Cai Guo-Qiang” on Thursday, October 5, at 12:30 pm in Cohen Hall 203 on the Peabody campus followed by a 1:10-2:25 pm documentary screening of Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang.  Ohl, head of archives at…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 3, 2017 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, Student/Alumni, VRC

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VRC’s Shelby Merritt Reviews the Historic England Archive for ARLIS/NA

Discover more about England’s archaeology, historic buildings and social history using the Historic England Archive, an online archive that was recently reviewed by Shelby Merritt, assistant curator, HART’s Visual Resources Center, for ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America). The Historic England Archive is an online archive produced by the Historic England organization, a public…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 2, 2017 in HART, News, Technology, VRC, Web

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Information Session About HART 4+1 BA/MA Program in History of Art Scheduled for October 5

Are you thinking about applying to Vanderbilt’s 4 + 1 BA/MA program in the History of Art?  If so, please join us for an information session and lunch reception in the atrium of Cohen Hall on Thursday, October 5, from noon to 12:30 pm. Not available to attend that day? Email betsey.a.robinson@vanderbilt.edu to set up…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 29, 2017 in HART, News, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Goran Nikšić to Address the Conservation of Diocletian’s Palace in Split at September 28 AIA Lecture

The complicated nature of the archaeological site of Diocletian’s Palace in Split, Croatia, will be the subject of the opening lecture of the 2017-2018 Symposia Series at the Nashville Parthenon on Thursday, September 28, at 6 pm.  Goran Nikšić, the city archaeologist and architect for the City of Split, and a senior lecturer in architectural…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 27, 2017 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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