Courtney Martin in Conversation with Frank Bowling at the Tate

Courtney Martin, assistant professor of history of art, has organized an exhibition at the Tate Britain that opened on April 30 and features a series of “poured” paintings that British Guyana-born abstract artist Frank Bowling began in New York in the early 1970s. Martin will travel to London this month to participate in an artist’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 1, 2012 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Lecture in Berlin and Paris This Fall

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, currently a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität für Nordamerikastudien, Berlin, will lecture in Berlin and Paris this fall. As part of the Kennedy Institute’s lecture series, “The Sixties—America’s Longest Decade,” Fryd will address “The Sixties in American Art History: Media…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 1, 2012 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Francesca Tronchin to Deliver AIA Lecture on October 2

Trained as a classical archaeologist and art historian, Francesca Tronchin, assistant professor of art history at Rhodes College, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Nashville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America 2012-2013 series on Tuesday, October 2. Her lecture, “Interpreting Statuary in the Villas of Pompeii and Herculaneum,” will begin at 7 p.m….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 26, 2012 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Robert Storr to Present Goldberg Lecture on September 21

Artist and critic Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School of Art, will reflect on the work of internationally acclaimed photographer Carrie Mae Weems at the fall 2012 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Friday, September 21, at 1:10 pm in the Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center. A reception…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 6, 2012 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Gallery Intern Broadens Her Understanding of Research

Katherine Calvin, a history of art major who will graduate in 2013, discovered the excitement of doing independent research as a Fine Arts Gallery intern last semester. Calvin wrote about her experience in VUpoint, a publication distributed to first-year students to explain “the ins and outs” of Vanderbilt. To read Calvin’s essay, go to http://commonplace.vanderbilt.edu/hosted/VUpoint2012.pdf…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2012 in Student/Alumni, VRC

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Tracy Miller Named Interim Chair of History of Art Department

A specialist in the ritual architecture of medieval China, Tracy Miller, associate professor of history of art and former director of the Asian Studies Program, is the new chair of the Department of History of Art for the 2012-2013 academic year. Miller, who joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2000, teaches courses in East Asian art…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 24, 2012 in HART, VRC

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Elizabeth Moodey: Color Choices at the Burgundian Court

Within the codes of late medieval dress, artists used color not only to indicate rank or occupation but also to delineate mood or moral character. Elizabeth Moodey, assistant professor of history of art, presented a paper, titled Ledit duc, ledit jour: Color Choices at the Burgundian Court, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 24, 2012 in HART, VRC

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Betsey Robinson Receives Prestigious Book Award

Betsey Robinson’s book, Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia, volume 2 in the “Ancient Art and Architecture in Context” series of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton University, 2011), has received the 2011 PROSE award for Anthropology and Archaeology by the Professional Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 21, 2012 in HART, VRC

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Alumnae Featured at History of Art Roundtable on October 21

As part of Vanderbilt’s Homecoming 2011 events, the History of Art Roundtable will feature four Vanderbilt alumnae in a panel session on Friday, October 21, from 3:30 to 4:15 pm in Cohen Hall 203. Martha Campbell BA’06, Katie Delmez BA’95, Anna Dubose BA’01, and Susan Knowles BA’74, MLS’75, MA’86, will discuss their careers related to…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 20, 2011 in VRC

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