Arts

Nashville Public Television (NPT) and Vanderbilt University have entered into a new strategic partnership designed to develop, enrich and extend educational programs and services throughout the region. Read More

Allen Shamblin, Steve Seskin and Chuck Jones will perform 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, at Dyer Observatory. This final show of the 2007 Bluebird on the Mountain series closes the third year of the highly popular outdoor concerts. Read More

An all-star cast of roots music singers and players will perform a benefit concert for Butch Baldassari, a respected Nashville musician, record producer and adjunct associate professor of mandolin at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music, who is battling cancer. Read More

Noted art critic Arthur Danto will speak at Vanderbilt University about the Sistine Chapel as part of a two-day symposium that will probe the relationship between words and images. Read More

Acclaimed producer, writer and director Julie Dash, maker of the film Daughters of the Dust and CBS television movie The Rosa Parks Story, will give a talk, "Smuggling Dreams into Reality: Black Women in Filmmaking," Friday, Oct. 5, 3 to 5 p.m. at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Emma Amos will speak at Vanderbilt University, helping to launch a new lecture series that will bring major artists to campus. Read More

A pregnant woman is kidnapped outside an abortion clinic and held prisoner - chained to a bed - in an attempt to force her to deliver a baby. Read More

The changing brain, architectural "winners and losers" and the rise of Irish literature are among the topics offered this fall at Vanderbilt University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Read More

Country music group Little Texas will give an acoustic performance Friday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. on the grounds of Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory to raise awareness of the observatory and to help fund Dyer's outreach programs. Read More

Singer-songwriters Pat Alger, Marc Beeson and James Dean Hicks will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series at Dyer Observatory. Read More

Artist Mel Ziegler, the new chair of the Vanderbilt University studio arts department, will meet and greet members of the Vanderbilt and Nashville community at a reception on Sept. 5. Read More

The fourth Bluebird on the Mountain concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, and promises to be on of the highlights of this year's series. Singer-songwriters Don Schlitz, Thom Schuyler and Fred Knobloch, whose work dominated the country charts in the 1980s and '90s, will perform at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Harmonica player Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson will also perform at the concert. Read More

The United States premiere of Australia's BalletLab and a performance by the Kronos Quartet highlight the 33rd season of Great Performances at Vanderbilt, Nashville's longest running and only international performing series. The season will also bring a residency at Vanderbilt by the JosÈ LimÛn Dance Company. Read More

The most unusual sound coming out of the American Symphony Orchestra League's conference in Nashville this week won't be from woodwinds, brass or strings, but rather from the tapping of fingers on computer keyboards. Read More

Award-winning singer-songwriters Mike Reid and Michael Johnson will headline the second Bluebird on the Mountain show of the 2007 season at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

Melanie Lowe, assistant professor of Musicology, lectured on the role of classical music in in our culture today. Lowe also teaches courses in American popular music, gender and sexuality in music, and music and American politics. Read More

Melanie Lowe, assistant professor of Musicology, lectured on the role of classical music in in our culture today. Lowe also teaches courses in American popular music, gender and sexuality in music, and music and American politics. Read More

Art lovers and fans of the legendary jazz artist John Coltrane will have their last chance to see "God Breathes," a series of paintings depicting the works and life of Coltrane, this week before the exhibit leaves Vanderbilt University and Nashville on Friday, May 11. Read More

Watch streaming video of performance of "Mu Lan & Poetry" from Ingram Hall on the Vanderbilt Campus May 5. Read More

The popular Bluebird on the Mountain concert series begins its third season at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory with a show featuring Kim Carnes, Dana Cooper, and Greg Barnhill. The 2007 series — which includes six concerts — runs from May 12 to Oct. 13 and will showcase nearly two dozen of Nashville's premier singer-songwriters. Read More