Rare Books & Arts

The rainbow screen

The rainbow screen

June 30, 2011

Rare Books & Arts:

This third post marking the publication of the latest issue of the La Trobe Journal, Queen City of the South: Gay and Lesbian Melbourne, centres on gay studies in film… Read More ›

Banksy and the uncommissioning of art

Banksy and the uncommissioning of art

June 28, 2011

Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:

This Wednesday 29th June at 6:30pm, as a part of the Outside-in cinema series in Experimedia here at the Library, we will be showing the oscar nominated multi-layered documentary, Exit… Read More ›

Masterpieces come in all shapes and sizes

Masterpieces come in all shapes and sizes

June 23, 2011

New books, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:

What makes a masterpiece? Not just a good question, but a great book title! What makes a masterpiece? : artists, writers and curators on the world’s greatest works of art edited by Christopher… Read More ›

Sound Beam Classics for Winter

Sound Beam Classics for Winter

June 22, 2011

Music, Rare Books & Arts:

Sound Beam is a regular program highlighting recorded music from the Arts audio-visual collection. It is accessible through headphones at selected workstations in the Arts Reading Room. Sound Beam currently… Read More ›

La Stupenda screening

La Stupenda screening

June 21, 2011

Music, Rare Books & Arts:

La Stupenda : a portrait of Dame Joan Sutherland, is the next program in the Music & Dance on Film series, to be screened this Wednesday June 22 in Arts. … Read More ›

Out of the closet and into the concert hall

Out of the closet and into the concert hall

June 16, 2011

Music, Rare Books & Arts:

We turn our attention to music as we continue to mark the publication of the latest issue of  The LaTrobe Journal, Queen City of the South: Gay and Lesbian Melbourne.… Read More ›

Filming a blaze

Filming a blaze

June 14, 2011

Rare Books & Arts:

This Wednesday 15th June at 6:30pm, as a part of the Outside-in cinema series in Experimedia here at the Library, we will be showing the acclaimed war documentary entitled Restrepo.… Read More ›

Photography, painting and a rummage through some Hitchcockiana

Photography, painting and a rummage through some Hitchcockiana

June 11, 2011

New books, Rare Books & Arts:

The beautiful & the damned : punk photographs by Ann Summa, edited by Kristine McKenna When Punk rock took off in the seventies it was wholeheartedly embraced by the Los Angeles… Read More ›

The love that dare not speak its name….but was always happy to paint it!

The love that dare not speak its name….but was always happy to paint it!

June 8, 2011

Rare Books & Arts:

This week sees the publication of the newest issue of the Library’s LaTrobe Journal, titled Queen City of the South: Gay and Lesbian Melbourne, which provides me with the perfect… Read More ›

Vaudeville, Music Hall & Tin Pan Alley : Free Screening

Vaudeville, Music Hall & Tin Pan Alley : Free Screening

June 8, 2011

Rare Books & Arts:

The next program in the Music and Dance on Film series will held be this Wednesday June 8, between 12.00 and 2.00 in Arts.  Two episodes from Tony Palmer’s award-winning documentary series… Read More ›