January 11 – March 2, 2018 Opening reception Thursday, January 11 from 5 to 7 pm in Cohen Memorial Hall From 1970 to 1987, Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid… Keep reading
Leanna Myers
FAMOUS! (and not-so-famous): Polaroids by Andy Warhol
Looking Back (Looking Forward): The Black Mountain Experience
January 11 – March 2, 2108 From its inception, Black Mountain College was an incubator for experimentation, placing the importance of an integrated liberal arts education at its center. This… Keep reading
Vanderbilt’s Distinctive Collections – December 2017 – May 2018
December 2017-May 2018 The library’s distinctive collections are areas of particular strength that set Vanderbilt apart from other research libraries. These include items of great rarity, historic value, and even… Keep reading
Cultures in Clay – December – September 2018
December 6, 2017-September 2018, Divinity Library Often called the cradle of civilization, the ancient Near East witnessed the emergence of remarkable cultures from the fourth through the first millennia BCE…. Keep reading
Colombian Independence – Spring 2017
This exhibition will be curated by a cohort of Buchanan Library Fellows and their librarian mentors. The J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana is a unique resource housed by the Vanderbilt University… Keep reading
The Once and Future Book – Fall 2017
Everyone knows what a book is. But what do gutters, fore-edges, diapers, running heads, and pilcrows have to do with books? In this course, the students learned interesting and amusing stories behind… Keep reading
Who Are We? Identity and the Contemporary Photographic Portrait
September 11 – December 7, 2017 The photographic portrait, with its roots in early nineteenth-century France, has continually challenged how we view ourselves. The actual practice has become increasingly fluid… Keep reading
Maladies, Elixirs, and Healers – August 2017 – February 2018
August 2017-February 2018 From 16th century alchemical treatises to 20th-century breakthroughs saving millions of lives, this exhibition explores the evolving roles of medicine and healers and how these changes affect… Keep reading
American Artists and the Legacy of the Grand Tour, 1880-1960
June 15 – August 26, 2017 In a historical sense, the Grand Tour was a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century phenomenon in which the young, usually male and aristocratic, members of English… Keep reading
Helguera Colombiana Exhibition – Spring 2017
This exhibition will be curated by a cohort of Buchanan Library Fellows and their librarian mentors. The pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers and programas in the J. León Helguera Collection form one of Vanderbilt’s most significant… Keep reading
