Spotlight
Vanderbilt joins Global Urban Humanities Network of Scholars and Practitioners
Apr. 28, 2025—Vanderbilt University has joined the Urban Humanities Network (UHN) as a consortium campus, solidifying the university’s place among leading institutions at the forefront of urban humanities scholarship. Established in 2022, UHN unites universities, organizations, and researchers dedicated to interdisciplinary study within the urban humanities, which operates at the nexus of humanities, urbanism, and design. To...
Senior Lecturer Susan Dine published article in the Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies
Mar. 17, 2025—Senior Lecturer Susan Dine published article in the Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies Ritualized Word: Material Networks in Thirteenth-Century Japan Abstract: Ritualized word has a long history in Japan, seemingly predating the introduction of Buddhist practice. This power of word was further emphasized through Buddhist ritual and art. This article examines the interconnectedness of these...
Goldberg Lecture – Factory as Counter-History: Industrial architecture between social revolution, welfare capitalism, and the fully automated building machine
Feb. 26, 2025—The Vanderbilt University Department of History of Art and Architecture is thrilled to present the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History, Factory as Counter-History: Industrial architecture between social revolution, welfare capitalism, and the fully automated building machine. This lecture will be presented by University of Toronto Professor Claire Zimmerman on Thursday,...
Senior Lecturer Susan Dine Presents Art History Course at the Frist Art Museum
Nov. 21, 2024—On Thursday, November 21, 2024, Senior Lecturer Susan Dine presented an art history course at the Frist Art Museum: Human Experience and Japanese Art. This talk was held from 6:00pm-7:00pm in the Museum’s Auditorium. In this course, Dine explored visual expressions from the period following World War II through the present day, with a focus...
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...
VanDiver on the Intersection of Visual Art and Social Justice
May. 28, 2024—Rebecca VanDiver, associate professor of art and architecture, discusses the work of Elizabeth Catlett, an African American printmaker and sculptor. VanDiver explores how art functions not only as a lens into society, but also as a cultural vehicle between the movement and the museum.