Warren Center Announces New Seminar on Material Culture

Mireille Lee, assistant professor of history of art, and Beth Conklin, associate professor of anthropology, are coordinating a new seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities entitled “Material Culture in Context.” This seminar explores objects and materiality from multiple perspectives. It will examine the meaning attached to objects by the people who…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 24, 2014 in Events, HART, VRC

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Seeing Red: The Passion, Madness and Desperation of Rothko

Tennessee Repertory Theatre is joining with Vanderbilt’s Master of Liberal Arts and Science Program and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts for a special event focused on the Tony Award-winning play Red by John Logan. The program will be held on Monday, February 17, at 6:30 pm in the Wilson Hall auditorium. The event…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 10, 2014 in Events, VRC

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Amanda Wunder to Lecture on the Spanish Farthingale

Amanda Wunder, assistant professor of history at Lehman College (CUNY) and of art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, will present a lecture entitled “The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Farthingale: Women’s Fashions and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Spain” on Thursday, February 27, at 4:10 pm in 203 Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. The…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 7, 2014 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Robert Ousterhout to Deliver Goldberg Lecture on February 20

Robert Ousterhout, professor of the history of art, University of Pennsylvania, will present the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, February 20, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is entitled “The Life and Afterlife of Constantine’s Column,” with a reception to follow in the atrium. A…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 31, 2014 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Richard Talbert to Deliver AIA Lecture on January 28

Richard Talbert, the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will deliver the Archaeological Institute of America lecture at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 28, at the Nashville Parthenon. His lecture is entitled “The Magnificent Peutinger Map: Roman Cartography at its Most Creative.” Talbert’s historical…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 22, 2014 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Illustrations of Fritz Eichenberg Featured in Fine Arts Gallery Exhibit

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery celebrates the opening of Fritz Eichenberg – Artist of the Book with an opening reception on Thursday, January 16, from 5 to 7 pm in Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. The exhibit, curated by Joseph S. Mella, gallery director, will remain on view through February 27. The focus of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 13, 2014 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Chris Strasbaugh Awarded 2013 VRAF Project Grant

Chris Strasbaugh, director of the Visual Resources Center in Vanderbilt’s History of Art department, has received one of two 2013 Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) grants recently awarded by the Board of Directors. The amount of the award is $1500. Strasbaugh and his colleagues plan to continue their development of the open source DIMLI: Digital…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on December 16, 2013 in HART, Technology, VRC

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Mireille Lee Awarded Visiting Senior Fellowship at CASVA

Mireille M. Lee, assistant professor of the history of art, has been awarded a Visiting Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Founded in 1979 and housed in the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, CASVA is a research institute that fosters study of the production, use, and cultural…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on December 9, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Featured in Frist Lecture Series on December 2

In partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Office of Community, Neighborhood, and Government Relations, “Food for Thought: Visualizing America through Art by African American Artists and Norman Rockwell” is a three-part lecture series held at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and presented by Vanderbilt professors who are exploring issues about what it means to be…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on December 2, 2013 in HART, HART in Nashville, Lectures, VRC

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Free Coffee Available in the VRC Now Through Final Exams

As the fall semester comes to a close, the Visual Resources Center invites students, faculty, and staff to join us for a free cup of coffee—or two or three—in Cohen 134. Coffee will be available throughout the day for the next three weeks, beginning Monday, December 2. Pour yourself a cup and dash to class…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on December 2, 2013 in HART, VRC

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