New Listening in Arts : Paris to St. Petersburg, Mondo Rock to Madder Lake
Some great new arrivals in popular and rock music, film soundtracks, musical theatre, classical music and opera for your listening pleasure.
Rare Books & Arts
From Russia with love: treasures from the Hermitage
Decorative arts, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Melbourne is currently experiencing a little bit of Imperial Russia with the exhibition, Masterpieces From the Hermitage: the Legacy of Catherine the Great, now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria. Here at the State Library of Victoria you can bury yourself in these treasures all year round.
Stormy weather, and all that jazz
If you haven’t dipped into the online Naxos Jazz Library before, do yourself a favour……
Strutting and fretting their hour; new books in the performing arts
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……
New Sights & Sounds including Stones, Sinbad and Satchmo.
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.
Melbourne International Film Festival; that’s entertainment!
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
Its been 46 years since astronauts first walked on the moon, but artists the world over have been travelling there for centuries.
Mining for treasure, or digging deep for art
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.
New Listening in Arts : Soundtracks and Shows
Film, Music, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:
Classic film soundtracks and Broadway shows currently feature on the Listening Posts in Arts.
Persian treasures in Mirror of the World
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
