New Listening: Prince & Alice, Cleo & Callas, & much more
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
Some great new music in Arts from pop to classical, and quite a few points in between.
Rare Books & Arts
New books with an American accent in Arts
New books, Painting, Photography, Rare Books & Arts:
An iconic American family of artists, a book of photographs capturing a lost place and time, an artist we should know better, and a lovely voice from Hollywood’s past.
Shakespeare 400
Music, Performing Arts, Rare Books & Arts, Theatre:
The works of William Shakespeare remain so fresh, and so fundamental to our culture, a mere 400 years after his death.
Robot monsters, Mr Squiggle, death metal zombies and a bit of Monty Python: business as usual in the Arts Library
New in Arts, just a few of the things that make popular culture so popular
New Sights & Sounds : Aida, Autumn, Peter, Puccini, & much more.
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
Some great new audio and video arrivals in Arts include latest releases in opera, pop, rock, classical music and film soundtracks.
Out of Ireland have we come: the arts in a century of change
Photography, Rare Books & Arts, Updates, Visual arts:
As the State Library celebrates the anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916, it seems appropriate to look at how Irish artists have transformed their culture over the course of a not uneventful century.
What do Bob Hope, Japanese gangsters and Patti Smith have in common?
They are all here as popular culture rears just a few of its many heads, on the shelves and online…..
New Sights and Sounds: Boheme & Bowie, Classics & Colleen, and lots more
Many great new arrivals for the New Year include latest releases and favourite titles in pop, rock, jazz, rhythm & blues, film soundtracks, opera, dance, classical and children’s songs. They include baubles, bangles and beads… Read More ›
Warhol & Weiwei, together at last
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei, strange bedfellows? Maybe not……
Hard rock, hard roll: some deaths in the family
Its been a tough start to the year with the loss of some truly iconic rock music figures.
