The Library Cafe

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Aaron Douglas. Cover Illustration for Fire!!  Devoted to Younger Negro Artists , ed. Wallace Thurman. New York, 1926.. March 1, 2023. Profes...

February 8, 2023.  Haohao Lu, Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College, talks about her article in the December issue of Ludica:...

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith. Landscape , c. 1928. 10-3/8 x 13-3/4". The Johnson Collection, Spartenburg, S.C. December 14, 2022.  Anne Ga...

 October 5, 2022. Dora Apel ,  W. Hawkins Ferry Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University, returns ...

September 21, 2022. Jessica D. Brier, Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, tal...

September 14, 2022: SEASON OPENER Mary Anna Barbey  (VC 58, 73) discusses her life as a journalist and novelist in Switzerland and her new  ...

Art Library Exhibit Case Showing Matthew Vassar's Shovel, Photo T. Hill, May 18, 2022   Edith Roberts' native plantings  along the F...

 May 11, 2022. Rhinebeck artist Franc Palaia talks about his catalogue raisonné : Wall Works: Frescoes, Photo-Sculpture and Mixed Media 1973...

April 13, 2022. Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science on the Fredrick Ferris Thompson Chair and Director of Research and Developmen...

 Joseph Tairraz.  Traversing a Crevice on Mt. Blanc 1870 Albumen print from glass plate negative. April 6, 2022. Elizabeth Nogrady (VC'...

March 30, 2022. Hester Blum , Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University,  discusses her book,  The News at the Ends of the Earth...

 March 23, 2022. Modesto poet Stella Beratlis returns to the program to talk about her new collection,  Dust Bowl Venus: Poems , just out fr...

February 2, 2022. The scholar, librarian, and Catholic Hermit  Julia Bolton Holloway , Custodian of the  English Cemetery in Florence , talk...

  December 8, 2021. The Artist  Aaron Sinift  and project co-curators Kahkashan Khan and Jitendra Kumar discuss the artist book featured in ...

Willem van Meiris, Portrait of Dina Margareta de Bye , 1705 o/c, The Leiden Collection, New York November 17, 2021. Elizabeth Nogrady (VC...

October 27, 2021. Nancy Bisaha , Simona Bondavalli, Alberto Gelmi, Emma Iadanza, Elizabeth Nogrady and  Ronald D. Patkus  discuss the teachi...

Vienna: Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread, 2000 October 13, 2021. The acclaimed art historian and cultural critic, Dora Apel ,...

        Pablo Picasso.  Les Demoiselles d'Avignon . 1907. Oil on canvas, 8' x 7' 8" New York: Museum of Modern Art.  Septem...

Robert Kipniss. Without Within, 1978. Color Lithograph, 24 x 18 inches.  SEASON OPENER September 15, 2021. The painter, printmaker, and writ...

Photo credit: Edward Spiro, 1980. May 12, 2021. The author and biographer  Laurie Lisle  returns to the program to talk about her new memoir...

Hilda Belcher (American, 1881–1963).  The Checkered Dress  (Portrait of O’Keeffe), 1907, watercolor and gouache. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Cen...

March 31, 2021. The artist Buzz Spector talks about his retrospective exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum on view through May 31, 2021:  ...

November 4, 2020. Miriam Cohen, Professor of History on the Evalyn Clark Chair at Vassar College, and Vassar Special Collections Librarian a...

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe , 1918.  October 14, 2020.  Author Laurie Lisle returns to the program to talk about another of her l...