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Senior Lecturer Jack Crawford gives talk – Style as Substance: Video Art’s Politics of the Self
Nov. 11, 2024—On Wednesday, November 13 at 4:30pm the Vanderbilt Museum of Art and the Vanderbilt Department of History of Art and Architecture presented Style as Substance: Video Art’s Politics of the Self, at talk by Senior Lecturer Jack Crawford. This talk was be held in Cohen Memorial Hall 203. Historicizing the lush contemporary video work featured...
Goldberg Lecture – Public Art, Public Health: Jacob Lawrence and the Murals of Harlem Hospital
Oct. 8, 2024—The Vanderbilt University Department of History of Art and Architecture is excited to present the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History, Public Art, Public Health: Jacob Lawrence and the Murals of Harlem Hospital. This talk will be presented by Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College,...
Professor Emerita Vivien Green Fryd is the Lecturer for Two Smithsonian Journeys Tours
Sep. 5, 2024—Professor Emerita Vivien Green Fryd will be the lecturer for two Smithsonian Journeys tours this Fall. The first will be “The Life and Work of Van Gogh in France”, September 18-24, 2024, and the second, “A Stay in Holland: An Art History Journey from Vermeer to Van Gogh”, October 8-16, 2024.
Professor Emerita Vivien Green Fryd to discuss “Layers of Meanings in Benjamin West’s Neoclassical Venus and Cupid” at the Nashville Parthenon
Aug. 6, 2024—Professor Emerita Vivien Green Fryd will be presenting at the Nashville Parthenon’s next free Symposium: Layers of Meanings in Benjamin West’s Neoclassical Venus and Cupid, August 19th at 6 PM. During this presentation, Fryd will discuss American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820), including West’s Venus and Cupid (1765), which is part of the Nashville Parthenon’s permanent...