Arts

The Trojan War, sparked by the abduction of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is over. The Greeks, led by Odysseus, are victorious. Odysseus has not yet spent his 10 years traveling the world in the tales made famous in Homer's Odyssey. Read More

"I Got a Woman" was a No. 1 R&B hit for Ray Charles in 1955, but the scope of both the song's origins and influence are still largely unappreciated. Read More

Nashville stands to lose important works if sale goes through. Nashvillians should understand the stakes if paintings by Georgia O‘Keeffe and Marsden Hartley are sold from the Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University to raise money for the university, says art historian Vivien Green Fryd of Vanderbilt University. Read More

A new album of uplifting music from Uganda compiled by a Vanderbilt University ethnomusicologist is being released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of the effort to combat HIV/AIDS. Read More

Starting Feb. 15 Vanderbilt professors will offer informed perspective on the acclaimed exhibition Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Read More

Playboy of the Western World inflamed audiences and caused weeklong rioting when it debuted in the National Irish Theater in Dublin in 1907. It debuts Feb. 16 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Watch video of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley speaking Jan. 23, 2007, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. The event was part of the 2006-2007 Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

Watch video of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley speaking Jan. 23, 2007, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. The event was part of the 2006-2007 Chancellor‘s Lecture Series. Read More

There will be a lot of drama on the Vanderbilt University campus each day at high noon during the week of Jan. 22. Read More

Poet and novelist Richard Katrovas will read from his upcoming memoir The Years of Smashing Bricks at Vanderbilt University on Tuesday, Feb. 6. Read More

Watch video of Elliot W. Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and professor of art at Stanford University, speaking in September 2006 on "What Do the Arts Teach?" Read More

Watch video of Elliot W. Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and professor of art at Stanford University, speaking in September 2006 on  "What Do the Arts Teach?" Read More