Margaret Walker Reveals Storied Past of Fine Arts Gallery Painting

My path to museum work began with degrees in both history and art history and an interest in the intersection of art and war.  With many artworks, what is visible presently is only the beginning of the story,  Madonna and Child with St. Anne, a Northern Renaissance devotional scene by Goswyn van der Weyden (ca. 1399-1464),…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 30, 2016 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Shirin Neshat’s Photographs Given to Fine Arts Gallery To Spark Cross-Cultural Dialogue at Vanderbilt

Two compelling photographs from Shirin Neshat’s monumental series Our House is on Fire (2013)—created in the wake of the Arab Spring—were recently given  to the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Art as Activist program. Vanderbilt is one of 33 colleges and universities chosen as a recipient of this gift, which…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 29, 2016 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Millspaugh Fund Supports Conservation Work For Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery

As part of an ongoing effort to conserve key artworks in the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery’s collection, Juno and Argus, Guardian of the Jupitern Herds was restored earlier this year and welcomed back for use in teaching and exhibitions. This seventeenth-century Flemish painting is of the School of Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), who was a student…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 28, 2016 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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HART Graduate Anna Greene Researches Surrealism and Advertising at MOMA Through a Downing Grant

Over the past four years of my college career, one of the most fulfilling and rewarding experiences I had was receiving a Downing grant for undergraduate research travel.  Under the direction of Leonard Folgarait, professor of art, I was studying the relationship between Surrealist art and advertising—a paradox between an artistic movement rooted in a…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 28, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Stephanie Storey: To Succeed in Business, Major in Art History

I hear it all the time from high school and college students (and their parents):  to succeed, you must major in science, technology, engineering, or business.  Any other degree is a waste of time.  A frivolous hobby. And an art history degree?!  Completely useless.  The brunt of the joke.  Let me set the record straight: …

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 9, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Exhibit Opening June 10 Explores Poetry and the Landscape Tradition

“Pastorals, Landscapes, and the Arcadian Vision,” on view at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery from June 10 through September 9, explores how artists  for centuries have rendered nature in a tranquil, idyllic form.  The exhibition, housed in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, features more than 50 paintings and works on paper from…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 7, 2016 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Chris Strasbaugh Appointed Digital Resource Archivist and Curator at Ohio State

After six years as HART’s Director of the  Visual Resources Center (and master chef on pancake days), Chris Strasbaugh recently left Vanderbilt for Ohio State University, where he will serve as the Digital Resource Archivist and Curator within the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture. “It is with great regret that I accepted the resignation…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 31, 2016 in HART, VRC

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HART Majors and Minors and Their Families Honored at Graduation Reception

Kevin Murphy, chair of the History of Art department,  faculty, and staff honored our majors and minors and their families at the department’s annual reception for graduating seniors on Thursday, May 12, in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall. Following Murphy’s warm welcome and introduction of the faculty, awards were presented and outstanding students recognized…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 16, 2016 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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“Book as Art: Medieval Necessity and Modern Invention” Exhibit Curated by HART Students

Illuminated manuscript (literally “hand written”) books are arguably the most characteristic objects of the European middle ages. They preserved a culture’s visions, adventures, religious rituals, and hard-won knowledge in books that were entirely handmade simply because there was no alternative. Contemporary artists, working in a culture dominated by mass-produced books and digitized content, are revisiting…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 13, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Vivien Fryd Invited to Present Lectures at Two Universities in Germany

Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, will deliver a lecture addressing “Kara Walker’s About the Title:  Re-enacting the Trauma of Colonialism and Slavery” on Thursday, May 12, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany.  Her lecture is sponsored by the Program in North American Studies. Fryd will present a paper titled “Stefanie Ries:  Waiting to…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 2, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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