Tracy Miller Co-Chairs Panel at T’ang Studies Society Conference Celebrating Opening of the Elling O. Eide Library

Tracy Miller, associate professor of history of art and Asian studies, recently co-chaired a panel at an international conference sponsored by the T’ang Studies Society and celebrating the opening of the Elling O. Eide Library in Sarasota, Florida. The theme of the panel was “Ritual Environments of the Tang Dynasty: Text Through Context.” As access…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 30, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Session Features Scholars of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Water Management and Culture

The EOS Project, the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, and the History of Art Department cosponsored a brainstorming session, Mater and Matrix: Water in Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Perspective, on November 18 in Cohen Memorial Hall. Scholars of ancient, medieval, and modern water management and culture, including HART Professors and EOS Fellows Betsey Robinson and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 29, 2016 in Events, HART, VRC

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Tracy Miller Lectures on Blossoming of Buddhist Sacred Space in Medieval China at Yale University

Tracy Miller, associate professor of history of art and Asian studies, addressed “Geometry, Cosmology, and the Blossoming of Buddhist Space in Medieval China” in a lecture that was hosted by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. As the earliest full-size towering pagoda extant in China, the pagoda at Songyuesi 嵩岳寺 in Dengfeng,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 29, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Travels to Johannesburg to Present Conference Paper on November 18

Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of history of art, is a panelist and presenter at “Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures,” a conference to be held November 17-19 in Turbine Hall in the Newtown district of Johannesburg, South Africa. VanDiver will address “On Fertile Ground: Africa, Motherhood and Reproduction in the Work of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 15, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Studio VU Lecture Series Features Ian Berry on Wednesday, November 16

Ian Berry, Dayton Director of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, will speak on Wednesday, November 16, at 6 pm in Wilson Hall, Room 103, as part of Studio VU: The Department of Art Lecture Series. A leader in the field of college and university museums, he is a…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 15, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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John Ott to Examine Hale Woodruff’s Radical Revision of Global Art History in November 10 Goldberg Lecture

As one of many efforts by mid-twentieth-century African American painters to reinvent abstraction into a more pluralistic cultural practice, Hale Woodruff’s six-panel mural for Atlanta University, The Art of the Negro (1950-51), offers a visual history of global art that freely mingles western and non-western art, ancient and modern cultures, and abstract and figural forms….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 1, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Tracy Miller to Moderate Vanderbilt History Seminar on Monday, October 31

Kristina Kleutghen, assistant professor of art history and archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis, will present her paper, “The Terms of Vision in Late Imperial China,” at the Vanderbilt History Seminar on Monday, October 31, at 3:10 pm in Sarratt 216/20. Tracy Miller, associate professor of history of art, will serve as commentator for this…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 27, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Reception and Tribute Honoring Barbara Tsakirgis Held at the Nashville Parthenon

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park hosted a reception and tribute honoring Barbara Tsakirgis, associate professor of classical and Mediterranean studies and history of art, on Monday evening, October 24, at the Nashville Parthenon. A leading scholar of Greek art and archaeology and Vanderbilt…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 26, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, VRC

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Leonard Folgarait to Explore “Edgar Degas: A New Vision” with VU Alums at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts

The Houston Vanderbilt Club is hosting an evening at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts with Leonard Folgarait, professor of history of art, as he explores Degas: A New Vision on Thursday evening, October 27, at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. On view through January 16, the exhibit offers the most significant international survey…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 26, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Neil Silberman to Deliver AIA Lecture on Thursday, October 27, at the Nashville Parthenon

There’s a revolution happening today in the way we value, discover, and imagine the past. On the negative side, ancient sites by the thousands—not only in the Middle East but all over the world—are being bulldozed, looted, vandalized, or blown up or merely vandalized. Feature films, bestsellers and specialized cable documentaries hopelessly muddle archaeological fiction…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 24, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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