Alumnus to Lecture on Chinese Funerary Art on October 9

Fan Jeremy Zhang, curator of Asian Art at the Ringling Museum of Art, will present the Department of History of Art Alumni Lecture entitled “Chinese Funerary Art in its Cultural and Architectural Context” on Thursday, October 9, at 4 pm in Cohen 203. The lecture and gallery tour is in conjunction with the student-curated exhibition…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 30, 2014 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Featured in McGill Hour Talk on October 1

Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of history of art, will give a talk as part of Vanderbilt’s McGill Hour series on Thursday, October 1. Her presentation is entitled “Hands Up/Camera Ready: Emmett, Trayvon, and Michael, Photograph, History, and Violence.” VanDiver teaches courses on modern/contemporary African American and African art and visual culture. Her research centers on…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 29, 2014 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Space 204 Exhibit Celebrates 30 Years of the Hamblet Award

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the gift from Clement H. Hamblet in memory of his wife, the Department of Art will showcase works from previous recipients of the Hamblet Award, given annually to a graduating senior. “The Gift: 30 Years of the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award” opens Thursday, September 25, at Space…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 23, 2014 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART Society to Host Tour of Frist Exhibit with Vivien Fryd

The HART Society will host a tour of “Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” an exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, on Thursday, September 18. Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, will lead the tour, and students and faculty should plan to meet in Cohen’s 21st Avenue lobby…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 9, 2014 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Student-Curated Exhibit Features Objects from Ancient China

From Tomb to Temple: Unearthing Ancient China Through the Vanderbilt University Art Collection, an exhibit organized by the Department of History of Art in conjunction with the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, will open on Thursday, June 19, in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. The exhibit represents the first student-curated exhibit to be…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 11, 2014 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni

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Awards Presented at Reception for 2014 HART Graduates

History of Art majors and minors and their families were honored at the department’s reception for graduating seniors on Thursday, May 8, in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall. Elizabeth Schoenberg, who plans to attend medical school, received the Cooley Prize ($250) for the highest grade point average in the history of art. Three students…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 13, 2014 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Department to Honor HART Graduates at Reception on May 8

History of Art majors and minors and their families are invited to attend the department’s reception for our graduating seniors on Thursday, May 8, from 2 to 4:00 p.m. The event will be held in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, and awards will be presented at 3:00 p.m. Graduates and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 5, 2014 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART Students to Present Papers at Writing Symposium March 30

Three of our students—Ashley Shan, Zachary Richards, and Hannah Berg—will present papers at the Undergraduate Writing Symposium held Sunday, March 30, at the Ingram Commons Center. Betsey Robinson, Associate Professor of History of Art, will chair the panel session, Art Across Time and Space, which will meet in room 233 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Shan, a…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 26, 2014 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni, 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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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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