From American Indian to Afro-Pop.
Two music databases published by Alexander Street Press that you can explore are American Song and Contemporary World Music. American Song is described as a history database that allows people to hear… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts
Collectors, museums and curious cabinets…….
Decorative arts, Painting, Rare Books & Arts:
The glorious Piranesi exhibition currently on show here at the State Library has me thinking about the whole passionate business of collecting. The British as art collectors : from the… Read More ›
Roman Holiday: Piranesi and the Grand Tour
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The Library’s new exhibition, Rome: Piranesi’s Vision, is now showing in the Keith Murdoch Gallery and is nothing short of splendid. Curated by Dr Colin Holden, it brings together material… Read More ›
New books: flashbacks, familiar faces and a bit of clowning around
Entertainers come in all shapes and sizes……. All my flashbacks by Lewis Gilbert You may not recognise the name but if you are at any kind of film-buff at all… Read More ›
New books: the Duke, Sydney Moderns, glorious Sargent, and some nude men…..
New books, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Nude men : from 1800 to the present day: edited by Tobias G. Natter and Elisabeth Leopold This is the catalogue to a groundbreaking exhibition held at the Leopold Museum… Read More ›
Clarice Cliff: ceramic designer extraordinaire
Decorative arts, Rare Books & Arts:
Serial-blogger Jane has been watching Bargain Hunt again….. If you do an internet search on Clarice Cliff, eBay is regularly included in your first page of hits. Eminently collectable, the… Read More ›
New Listening: Chain, Cosmic Country & more
Music, Musicals, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
Some recent CD arrivals feature on the Listening Posts in Arts. They include releases in opera, classical, country, pop, rock, blues and musical theatre. The online catalogue indicates which Listening Post the CD… Read More ›
Vale Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado, one of the very greatest conductors of the modern era, sadly passed away this week after a long battle with illness. A true gentleman of the podium, he… Read More ›
New books: if you dare….
A mixed bag of new books hitting the shelves; just what I love! Circus and stage : the theatrical adventures of Rose Edouin and GBW Lewis by Mimi Colligan Mimi… Read More ›
Shall we dance?
Guest blogger extraordinaire, Jane, is inspired by some of the treasures in our sheet-music collection…… I am currently helping out with the sheet-music spreadsheet-cataloguing project (try saying that quickly!) in… Read More ›
