Rare Books & Arts

New videos from Naxos to watch at home

New videos from Naxos to watch at home

August 8, 2013

Dance, Music, Rare Books & Arts:

The wonderful Naxos Video Library continues to offer up music and dance from around the world New Year’s Concert, 2007: conducted by Valery Gergiev Well, it’s the new financial year!… Read More ›

Listening Post Sounds: Carrie, Chameleons, Chicken Walk – Bring it on!

Listening Post Sounds: Carrie, Chameleons, Chicken Walk – Bring it on!

August 7, 2013

Music, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:

Some recent CD arrivals feature on the Listening Posts in Arts. They include latest releases in opera, musical theatre, jazz & blues, popular & world music. The online catalogue indicates… Read More ›

Arts on Film: Kamahl & Louis Armstrong double

Arts on Film: Kamahl & Louis Armstrong double

August 6, 2013

Music, Rare Books & Arts:

A double bill featuring Kamahl and Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday August 7. Louis Armstrong : live in Australia,… Read More ›

Listening Post Sounds: Carrie, Chameleons, Chicken Walk – Bring it on!

Listening Post Sounds: Carrie, Chameleons, Chicken Walk – Bring it on!

August 2, 2013

Music, Musicals, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:

Some recent CD arrivals feature on the Listening Posts in Arts. They include latest releases in opera, musical theatre, jazz & blues, popular & world music. The online catalogue indicates which… Read More ›

The eye has to travel in Outside-in Cinema

The eye has to travel in Outside-in Cinema

July 30, 2013

Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:

This Wednesday, Outside-in Cinema will be showing the recent documentary entitled Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel, which chronicles the rise to fame of the late 20th century fashion… Read More ›

Reading the Melbourne International Film Festival

Reading the Melbourne International Film Festival

July 24, 2013

Film, Rare Books & Arts:

The Melbourne Film Festival is once again upon us, and as usual there are some terrific special programs  North Korean cinema : a history by Johannes Schönherr McFarland & Co.,… Read More ›

Arts on Film:  Opera Screening – Armida.

Arts on Film: Opera Screening – Armida.

July 22, 2013

Music, Rare Books & Arts:

Armida : an opera in three acts, is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday July 24. Please note that from today Arts on… Read More ›

July 21 is International Zine Library Day

July 19, 2013

Rare Books & Arts:

The day was set back in 2011 at the Milwaukee Zine Library (un)Conferance, chosen because 21 looks a bit like a Z and an I, and July happens to be… Read More ›

New Books: psychedelia, Cecil Beaton, Warhol and dangerous women

New Books: psychedelia, Cecil Beaton, Warhol and dangerous women

July 15, 2013

New books, Rare Books & Arts:

 Electrical banana : masters of psychedelic art: Norman Hathaway & Dan Nadel If a lot of the imagery in this phantasmagoric tome looks familiar then you probably spent a goodly… Read More ›

Mushroom Records

Celebrating NAIDOC Week in the Arts Library

July 10, 2013

Rare Books & Arts:

Here we are in the midst of NAIDOC Week, so what better time to celebrate the extraordinary diversity and beauty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture! Tribal Voice by… Read More ›