Rare Books & Arts

William Morrow Publishers, 2014

Strutting and fretting their hour; new books in the performing arts

August 21, 2015

Film, Performing Arts, Rare Books & Arts:

Sometimes the goings on behind the scenes are a whole lot more fascinating than what goes on out the front……

ABC, Universal Music, 2014

New Sights & Sounds including Stones, Sinbad and Satchmo.

August 14, 2015

Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:

Some great new arrivals in popular music, film soundtracks, musical theatre, jazz, rock, classical, and even marching music for those so inclined.

Interior views of cinema: Harold Paynting

Melbourne International Film Festival; that’s entertainment!

July 31, 2015

Film, Rare Books & Arts:

It’s that time of year again when Melbourne’s cinephiles either come to work bleary-eyed and tetchy, or just take a couple of weeks off and disappear into darkened cinemas around town.

Let us enjoy the beauty of the moon

Let us enjoy the beauty of the moon

July 24, 2015

Rare Books & Arts:

Its been 46 years since astronauts first walked on the moon, but artists the world over have been travelling there for centuries.

National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015

Mining for treasure, or digging deep for art

July 17, 2015

Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:

S.T.Gill is perhaps best known for his iconic visions of everyday life on the goldfields, and a quick search of our catalogue shows that he was not alone in finding a rich vein of inspiration in the more industrial side of life.

PS Classics, 2015

New Listening in Arts : Soundtracks and Shows

July 8, 2015

Film, Music, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:

Classic film soundtracks and Broadway shows currently feature on the Listening Posts in Arts.

Sa’di, Gulistan, State Library Victoria, folio 21

Persian treasures in Mirror of the World

June 26, 2015

Exhibitions, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:

Anna Welch introduces us to some beautiful Persian manuscripts currently on display in the Mirror of the World exhibition

Paramount Records, 1970

The Battle of Waterloo and its 200 year old legacy

June 18, 2015

Film, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:

The Battle of Waterloo continues to fascinate, even 200 years after those ferocious days

Wendingen: cover by El Lissitzky

Wendingen: Designing modernity

June 5, 2015

Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:

Anna Welch introduces us to an art magazine that is itself a work of art

Red Planet, 1995

Moments to treasure

May 29, 2015

Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:

Between the Library and the internet you can find almost any treasure