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Professor Rebecca K. VanDiver to present Holbrook Memorial Lecture: "Making the South Modern" November 9, 2023 at the Georgia Museum of Art.

WATCH: Storied Vanderbilt campus home becomes living history lab and exhibit.

Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Scholar Lee Ann Custer presents Art for Lunch event, Land and Belonging in Emily Arthur's Contemporary Indigenous Printmaking Pactice, Tuesday, October 31, 2023.

The Department of History of Art and Architecture presents 2023 Alumni Lecture, "China in the Japanese Imaginary: Miyamoto Ryuji's Photographs of Kowloon Walled City," Thursday, November 2, 2023.

Professor Emerita Vivien Green Fryd to give lectures for the Smithsonian Journeys Spain Andalusia tour October 19-27, 2023.

The Department of History of Art and Architecture congratulates our colleague Prof. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair in the Fine Arts, who was recently named as part of the 2023 class of MacArthur Foundation fellows.

Applications for Fall 2023 Downing Grants for Undergraduate Research/Travel in the History of Art and Architecture are due on November 1, 2023 by 5 PM CST.

VU.Arch x Department of History of Art and Architecture presents Architecture Info Session Wednesday, October 4, 2023.

The Department of History of Art and Architecture presents guest lecture, "Talismans for Rebirth in Chosŏn Buddhist Rituals and Their Earlier Traces in China," Monday, October 9, 2023.

The College of Arts and Science Grand Challenge Initiative on Cities Presents the Symposium on Universities, Cities, and Communities, September 21-23, 2023.

The Department of History of Art and Architecture presents Goldberg Lecture, "Michelangelo’s David: Censorship and Responses from the Renaissance to Today," Thursday, September 14, 2023.

Professor Rebecca K. VanDiver to be featured in the Frist Art Museum’s Artist and Scholar Conversations on the upcoming exhibition, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, September 23, 2023.

Postdoctoral Scholar Lee Ann Custer publishes an article on John Sloan’s depictions of urban air in American Art.

Professor Kevin Murphy publishes an article on recent exhibitions of watercolor exhibitions and practices.

Vanderbilt students, faculty, staff, and alumni gather to celebrate the retirement of Distinguished Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Dr. Leonard Folgarait.

Professor Rebecca K. VanDiver featured in Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science Faculty Spotlight: inter+SECTIONS: visual art + social justice.

WATCH: Professor Emerita Vivien Green Fryd gives Eldredge Prize lecture, The Art of the Un-Speakable and the 'Me Too' Movement, at the the Smithsonian American Art Museum, March 14, 2023.

Prof. Susan Dine gives lecture at the Penn Museum - Carving Connections to the Gods: Boundary Imagery in Ainu Ritual Art. February 25, 2023.

Prof. Rebecca K. VanDiver discusses her book, Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness, in recent Faculty & Staff Spotlight interview.

Prof. Rebecca K. VanDiver gives lecture at Harvard University - Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and Writing the Art Histories of Black Women. January 26, 2023.

Prof. Sheri Shaneyfelt wins Arts and Science Faculty Advising Award

The Department of History of Art and Architecture Co-Sponsors a Kimono Viewing and Discussion, Presented by the Asian Studies Department. Monday, November 14, 2022 from 3:30-4:30pm.

Prof. Rebecca VanDiver wins Chancellor’s Award for Research on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

History of Art and Architecture Career Series Presents, A Virtual Conversation with Rachael White Young of Christe's. Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 at 6:00 PM.

The Department of History of Art and Architecture Co-sponsors Japanese Tea Ceremony, Hosted by the Asian Studies Department on Thursday, September 22^nd

Vivien Green Fryd is the Smithsonian Journeys Expert for Tours: “A Seine River Cruise,” September 27-October 5, 2021; “Holiday Markets,” December 11-21. 2022; “A River Cruise of Provence,” May 3-11, 2023.

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