Arts And Culture

A biography of singer–songwriter Sam Cooke will be the fourth book by Peter Guralnick to be declared “a classic in blues literature” by the Blues Hall of Fame. Read More

Gregg Hecimovich, MA’93, PhD’97, began searching a decade ago for clues to the true identity of Hannah Crafts, author of a compelling story about a house slave who escaped to freedom. Read More

For 50 years, from its beginnings as Blair Academy of Music in 1964 to its expanded incarnation at Blakemore Avenue as part of Vanderbilt, the Blair School of Music has prepared students for the study of music as a human endeavor and as a performing art. Read More

The Mighty Sky, a musical collaboration from Nashville-based singer–songwriters Beth Nielsen Chapman and Annie Roboff and Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory Director Rocky Alvey, received a 2014 Grammy Award nomination for Best Children’s Album. Read More

Bettie Page, BA’44, America’s favorite pinup queen, is featured in a recent documentary by Music Box Films and Academy Award–nominated director Mark Mori. Read More

Vanderbilt Opera Theatre has put an offbeat spin on a fairy-tale-inspired musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. The setting is decidedly steampunk: a melding of Victorian-era design, industrial gears and steam-powered machinery that is both retro and futuristic at the same time. Read More

The Complexity of Seattle’s Floating Homes Community Now studying to be an architect, Erin Feeney explored Seattle’s community of floating homes in a recent book and exhibit, both pictured below. (Greg Gilbert)   Erin Feeney, BA’07, did not have architecture in mind as a career when she… Read More

Recent Books for Your Fall Reading   Lauren P. Della Monica, BA’95, Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views (2013, Schiffer Publishing) Della Monica explores American landscape painting today, its relevance in the contemporary art world and its historic roots. Trends from realism to abstraction and nonobjectivity are… Read More

Everybody Has a Story is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, FYE, iTunes and Walmart, as well as at Children’s Hospital in The Friends Shop. A compilation of songs written in music therapy sessions at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and recorded by… Read More

  2013, Third Wheel Press Charles R. Scott, BA’90, and his children—Sho, age 12, and Saya, age 6—are cycling the Lewis and Clark Trail this summer. While they’ll journey the first 1,500 miles by car in order to complete their adventure during the school break, they’ll ride… Read More

Charlie Chaplin image from the 1924 Léger–Murphy film (Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives) Robots and Riots BLAIR SCHOOL PREMIERES HISTORIC PIECE On April 7 the Blair School of Music’s percussion ensemble VORTEX presented the Southeastern U.S. premiere of American composer George Antheil’s Ballet… Read More

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Stage & Screen: The Star Quality of Vanderbilt’s Performing Arts Collections, on view at Vanderbilt’s renovated Central Library and Special Collections, invites viewers to step “behind the curtain” of some of the world’s most memorable productions. Read More

A signature piece of art created by renowned American sculptor Mark di Suvero was acquired by Vanderbilt and installed April 30 between the Student Life Center and the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Building. Read More