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.
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei, strange bedfellows? Maybe not……
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Guest blogger and library volunteer Christine Bell shares her passion for bookplates and throws some light on the work she’s doing behind the scenes on some of our own collections.
Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
A clutch of new books explore Turner’s “born again” vision, the back-to-the-future philosophy of William Morris, Scotland’s artists at war, and the remarkable life and art of Sidney Nolan (shown here in a photograph by Albert Tucker, c.1940s).
Decorative arts, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Melbourne is currently experiencing a little bit of Imperial Russia with the exhibition, Masterpieces From the Hermitage: the Legacy of Catherine the Great, now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria. Here at the State Library of Victoria you can bury yourself in these treasures all year round.
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
S.T.Gill is perhaps best known for his iconic visions of everyday life on the goldfields, and a quick search of our catalogue shows that he was not alone in finding a rich vein of inspiration in the more industrial side of life.
Exhibitions, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch introduces us to some beautiful Persian manuscripts currently on display in the Mirror of the World exhibition
Film, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The Battle of Waterloo continues to fascinate, even 200 years after those ferocious days
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch introduces us to an art magazine that is itself a work of art
Comic books, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Australian artists have fallen-in with our fighting forces since colonial times, witnessing, reporting and questioning all aspects of war.
