Arts on Film: Wonderful Town!
Wonderful Town! : excerpts from the musical in concert, is the next program in the Arts on Film series for 2012, to be screened this coming Wednesday November 21 in Arts.… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts
Stop, Repair, Prepare: the Dome receives a birthday present
To celebrate the centenary of our beautiful Domed Reading Room (aka. the LaTrobe Reading Room), the Library is kickstarting a full year of celebrations in 2013 this month with a… Read More ›
New DVDs: Haydn, the New York Times, the Don & more.
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
New DVDs arriving into the collection include the following: In Search of Haydn: a film by Phil Grabsky Michel Legrand and the cinema A classical and film composer are… Read More ›
That’s why they’re called the “funny pages”! A favourite thing…..
Comic books, Rare Books & Arts:
An occasional series highlighting a favourite item from the collection. Forgotten fantasy, Sunday comics 1900-1915 : visions from Lyonel Feininger, Winsor McCay and many more: edited by Peter Maresca … Read More ›
Arts on Film: Opera Gala
Part One of The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala is the next program in the Arts on Film series, to be screened this coming Wednesday 7th November in Arts. In celebration… Read More ›
Artists books and other wonders
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Guest blogger Des Cowley, manager of our Rare Printed Collection, sent me this piece about a remarkable volume recently added to our seriously fine collection of artists books from both… Read More ›
Musical listening in Arts
Musical theatre features on new Listening Post music in Arts highlighting some recent CD arrivals, plus a few popular titles making a return visit. There are eight jukebox listening posts… Read More ›
Arts on Film: Ballet Double Bill Screening
A ballet double bill is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday October 24 in Arts. Baryshnikov Dances Sinatra and more…is… Read More ›
New books: culture can be popular, popular can be culture……
Comic books, Music, New books, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Our hero: Superman on Earth by Tom De Haven Tom De Haven is the author of a very beautiful and surprising novel about Superman/Clark Kent’s early years in Depression-era America,… Read More ›
Some particularly rapid unintelligible patter: celebrating Gilbert and Sullivan
Once guaranteed crowd-pleasers, it seems that the works of Gilbert and Sullivan have lost a bit of traction in recent years with our major opera companies. A shame really as… Read More ›
