Rare Books & Arts

Music Boxes: Bette, Elvis and a whole lot more

Music Boxes: Bette, Elvis and a whole lot more

July 4, 2012

Rare Books & Arts:

The Library has a great collection of CD box sets featuring some of the world’s biggest names in recorded music.  Recent arrivals include: The Rolling Stones : the singles 1971-2006.… Read More ›

Ballet Screening: MacMillan Triple Bill

Ballet Screening: MacMillan Triple Bill

July 3, 2012

Rare Books & Arts:

Three MacMillan Ballets is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday July 4 in Arts. Featured are three very different ballets by renowned… Read More ›

Ravi Shankar and the music of the world

Ravi Shankar and the music of the world

June 25, 2012

Music, Rare Books & Arts:

Don’t you love it when something comes along, quite unexpectedly, and just knocks your socks off? Taking a punt (as one should every so often) I recently bought a recording… Read More ›

Carmen, Galileo, the Phantom & some hippies.

Carmen, Galileo, the Phantom & some hippies.

June 21, 2012

Music, Rare Books & Arts:

There are many great new DVDs arriving in Arts that include the following. These & other audiovisual items can be requested through the Library’s online catalogue, for playing on audiovisual equipment… Read More ›

Talk with the hand: Outside-in Cinema

Talk with the hand: Outside-in Cinema

June 20, 2012

Rare Books & Arts, Television:

This week’s Outside-in cinema screening is the multi-award-winning documentary Being Elmo, which has yet to be released in Australian cinemas (in or out of a festival). The film focuses on… Read More ›

Opera Screening: The Magic Flute

Opera Screening: The Magic Flute

June 19, 2012

Rare Books & Arts:

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote): an opera in two acts, is the next program in the Arts on Film series, to be screened this Wednesday June 20 in Arts. This… Read More ›

Painting and photography….and dogs!

Painting and photography….and dogs!

June 16, 2012

New books, Painting, Photography, Rare Books & Arts:

Dogs in Australian art : a new history of antipodean creativity by Steven Miller As the proud owner of two whippets who just happen to be the most beautiful dogs… Read More ›

Contemporary musicians, actors and entertainers online!

Contemporary musicians, actors and entertainers online!

June 12, 2012

Rare Books & Arts:

We live in a wonderful age when all of this…. can become just this! Not to mention all of this…… becoming just this!! Now don’t get me wrong, I love… Read More ›

Superheroes, Supernatural and Surf; all in a day’s work for the Arts Library

Superheroes, Supernatural and Surf; all in a day’s work for the Arts Library

June 7, 2012

Film, New books, Rare Books & Arts, Television:

A selection of books proving that there’s more to popular culture than meets the eye…… Shazam! : the golden age of the world’s mightiest mortal by Chip Kidd and Geoff… Read More ›

Outside-in Cinema and Babies: Beyond the Odessa Steps

Outside-in Cinema and Babies: Beyond the Odessa Steps

June 6, 2012

Film, Rare Books & Arts:

The first thing that comes to my mind when thinking of babies in films is pretty harrowing: the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein’s epic, Battleship Potemkin (which was famously… Read More ›