Vivien Fryd Organizes International Conference in Berlin

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, has organized an international conference on American icons and monuments to be held January 25 at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Fryd, the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art, will deliver the keynote address: “The Statue of Liberty: A Chameleon-Like Hollow…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 17, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Peter Parshall To Deliver Goldberg Lecture on January 24

Peter Parshall, curator of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from 1999 to 2010, will present the spring 2013 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, January 24, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is titled The Concept of Aesthetic Disinterest: G….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 14, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Mark di Suvero Exhibit Opens January 17 in Fine Arts Gallery

Mark di Suvero—Affinities, on view through February 28, celebrates Vanderbilt’s recent acquisition of Tumbleweed (1987), di Suvero’s monumental sculpture now installed on the grounds of the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center on the main campus. The exhibit opens Thursday, January 17, in the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Hall, with a reception from…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 7, 2013 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Book Explores Illuminated Manuscripts of Crusader History

Elizabeth J. Moodey, assistant professor of the history of art, considers Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy from 1419 to 1467, as a patron of history writing and of illuminated manuscripts in her new book entitled Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip the Good of Burgundy (Brepols Publishers, 2012). Among Moodey’s interests are the history of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 4, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Gallery Exhibit of Tim Hetherington’s Photographs Closing Soon

Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, Photography by Tim Hetherington will be on view through Thursday, December 6, in the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. Tim Hetherington, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and British photojournalist, documented the experience of war from the perspective of the individual, mostly in West…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 28, 2012 in Fine Arts Gallery, VRC

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Future of Electronic Books in Art, Art History, and Architecture

Recent shifts in the museum, technology, and rights-management worlds have convinced Patricia Fidler, publisher of Yale University Press’s art and architecture list, that scholarly art-history publishing has a promising digital future. An interesting read is Jennifer Howard’s article, “Art Publishers Look to Yale Press for Glimpse Into Their Digital Future,” that appeared in the October…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 28, 2012 in Technology, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Lecture on Faith Ringgold in Paris on December 6

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, will lecture on “The Transgenerational Trauma of Slavery in Faith Ringgold’s Slave Rape Story Quilt ” in Paris on December 6 at the Terra Foundation for American Art Europe. Fryd is currently the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Faith Ringgold’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 26, 2012 in Events, HART, VRC

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HART Society to View Carrie Mae Weems Exhibit on November 9

Join the Vanderbilt History of Art Society for ARTini: Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on Friday, November 9. Shaun Giles, educator for outreach at the Frist, will lead an informal conversation about some of the works included in the exhibition. The group will…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 7, 2012 in Events, HART, VRC

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Julia Murray to Deliver Goldberg Lecture on Thursday, November 8

Julia K. Murray, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, November 8, at 4:10 p.m. in Cohen Hall 203. Her lecture is entitled “The Cult of Confucius and the Shrine of His Robe and Cap.” Sponsored by the Norman L. and Roselea J….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 6, 2012 in VRC

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Opera at Ingram Hall Inspired By Paintings of Edward Hopper

Vanderbilt Opera Theatre (Gayle Shay, director) and Vanderbilt University Orchestra (Robin Fountain, conductor) will present Operas in One Act—two contemporary operas, each one act long, on November 9 (8-10 p.m.) and November 11 (2-4 p.m.) at Blair School of Music’s Ingram Hall. Later the Same Evening, written in 2007 by Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer John Musto,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 5, 2012 in Events, VRC

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