Christopher Johns Invited to Lecture at San Diego Museum of Art

Christopher Johns, Norma L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, has been invited to lecture on March 30 at the symposium Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design held in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art. His lecture, Piranesi and the Fabrication of Rome in the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 22, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Kevin Murphy Named History of Art Department Chair

The History of Art Department announces the appointment of Kevin Murphy, John Rewald Professor of Art History and Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, as the new department chair beginning fall semester 2013. Professor Murphy (PhD, Northwestern University, 1992) has…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 22, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Huey Copeland to Deliver Goldberg Lecture on March 14

Huey Copeland, director of graduate studies and associate professor of art history at Northwestern University, will present the spring 2013 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, March 14, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. In his lecture, Relative Fictions, or, Incidents in the Life of Modernism, drawn from…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 4, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Tsakirgis to Lecture on Dinsmoor and Design of Nashville Parthenon

Barbara Tsakirgis, associate professor of classics and history of art, Vanderbilt University, will deliver the American Institute of Archaeology lecture on Tuesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. Her lecture is entitled “The Athens of the South: William Bell Dinsmoor and the Design of the Nashville Parthenon.” Dinsmoor was…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 4, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Highlights British Art in Exhibit Opening March 13

British art from Vanderbilt University’s Fine Arts Gallery Collection is the focus of an exhibit titled Four Hundred Years of British Art, which will open on Wednesday, March 13, in the Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Hall with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. This comprehensive survey—the first of its kind in more than…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 4, 2013 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Leonard Folgarait Edits Book on Mexican Muralism

A multi-author volume that deals critically and from a variety of thematic perspectives with Mexican mural painting—its problems, achievements, failures, and legacy—became the project of three editors and contributors: Leonard Folgarait, professor of history of art, Vanderbilt University; Alejandro Anreus, professor of art history and Latin American/Latino Studies, William Paterson University; and Robin Adèle Greeley,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 27, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Lecture at Pierpont Morgan Library

Christopher M. S. Johns, Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will lecture on Piranesi and the Warwick Vase: Image, Text, Fragments and Fictions in European Neoclassicism at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York on March 4. The lecture is part of a symposium devoted to artist’s letters. The Morgan Library has…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 26, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Tim Winters to Lecture on the Parthenon Marbles in Nashville

Tim Winters, professor of classics in the department of languages and literature, Austin Peay State University, will deliver the American Institute of Archaeology lecture on Tuesday, February 26, at 7 p.m. at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. His lecture is entitled “Belle Kinney, Leopold Scholz, and the Parthenon Marbles in Nashville.” Winters (Ph.D., Ohio…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 25, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Alexandra Carpino To Deliver the Cinelli Lecture on February 5

Alexandra Carpino, professor of art history and department chair of comparative cultural studies at Northern Arizona University, will deliver the American Institute of Archaeology’s annual Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology on Tuesday, February 5, at 7 p.m. at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. Carpino’s lecture, Etruscan Faces: From the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 30, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Courtney Martin To Present Film Documentary on British Pop Artists

Courtney Martin, assistant professor of history of art, will present Ken Russell’s Pop Goes The Easel on Monday, February 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema. Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor focuses on four British pop artists—Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty, and Derek Boshier. Revolutionary in his approach, Russell…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 30, 2013 in HART, VRC

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