Under Milk Wood with Dylan Thomas & Peter Blake
Anna from the History of the Book collection will be highlighting some of the new treasures to be found in our Mirror of the World exhibition over the next few… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts
New books: artistic oceans, graphics underground and overhead & a musical navy
Framing the ocean, 1700 to the present : envisaging the sea as social space: edited by Tricia Cusack This take on the ocean seeks to investigate our changing cultural/artistic view… Read More ›
Joyeux anniversaire Jean Philippe Rameau
You’ll have to excuse me while I celebrate an important birthday….. Happy birthday Jean Philippe Rameau, born September 25, 1683, in Dijon, France, and destined to become one of that… Read More ›
Photography: in and out of focus
New books, Photography, Rare Books & Arts:
Photography continues to be a major part of our contemporary art collecting, and here are just a few new titles to tempt you into the building (and one you can… Read More ›
Fantastic Voyage with King Kong & Queen : new listening in Arts.
Film, Music, Musicals, Performing Arts, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Theatre:
Some new CD arrivals feature on the Listening Posts in Arts. They include recent releases in film soundtracks, pop, rock, classical guitar, and musical theatre. The online catalogue indicates which… Read More ›
75 years ago; art goes to war again
Film, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
I was taken by surprise the other day when, listening to the radio in the morning, the announcer rather casually mentioned that on that particular day 75 years ago (… Read More ›
It’s a book Jim, but not as we know it; new ebooks in Arts
Film, Music, New books, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Television:
Our collection of ebooks continues to grow, and these are just a few of my current personal favourites; I can’t wait to get home to read them! You can too… Read More ›
New DVDs: Reef, Seashore, Shrek & Vali.
Dance, Music, Musicals, Painting, Performing Arts, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Television, Visual arts:
New DVDs arriving into the collection include the following releases in rock, popular and classical music, opera, dance, musical theatre, televison variety and visual arts. Gene Kelly : anatomy of a… Read More ›
Victor Hugo, Rigoletto and a charming battleship
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
With the State Library’s major exhibition, Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage, currently showing, I thought it might be timely to delve into just a few… Read More ›
War and the arts: strange bedfellows
Music, Painting, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
And the band played on: by Robert Holden (ebook) Robert Holden is undoubtedly one of our finest social and cultural historians, and this recent book is a timely examination of… Read More ›
