As part of Bibliography Week in New York City, a new exhibition at the Grolier Club looks at everyday objects that are designed to look like books. The exhibition is curated by Mindell Dubansky, head of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, from her personal collection.
“Black Pulp!” opens this week at the Yale School of Art’s gallery at 32 Edgewood Avenue. The exhibition will be on view January 19–March 11, with an opening reception on Thursday, January 21 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Using printed material such as books, magazines, cartoons, and comics, the exhibition explores the black popular imagination and experiences of the Black Diaspora. It is curated by artist and Yale School of Art Lecturer William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson, M.F.A. ’13.
The New York Public Library has launched new tools to make all of its public-domain images—over 180,000—freely downloadable in high resolution. Access the full collection at publicdomain.nypl.org.
Although the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library will close at 5 pm this Wednesday, December 23rd and reopen at 8:30 am on Monday, January 4, 2016 (for more details, see the building hours page), Yale affiliates still have access to all of our electronic resources during winter recess. You can find Arts-specific databases on the Arts Databases page and many others in the A-Z databases list.
Save the date! Friday, December 11
Art Book Fair "Odds and Ends" - Books by artists and art-book makers will be on display and for sale. The fair includes books from small independent publishers who focus on art, architecture, photography, and design; rare and limited-edition books and zines printed in short runs and showcasing a range of publishing endeavors; and book works by students from the Yale School of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
Although the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library will close at 5 pm this Wednesday, November 25th and reopen at 2 pm on Sunday, November 29th (for more details, see the building hours page), Yale affiliates still have access to all of our electronic resources during November recess. You can find Arts-specific databases on the Arts Databases page and many others in the A-Z databases list.
In conjunction with the new exhibition, "“How right they are to adore you!”: The Song of Songs Interpreted Through Fine Printing", the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library is presenting a talk by artists Robin Price and Barbara Benish. They will speak about their ten-year collaboration on a forthcoming (2016) edition of "The Song of Songs". Price and Benish previously collaborated on "The Book of Revelation" (R. Price, 1995).
Looking for articles? Yale University Library now subscribes to the Frick Art Reference Library Periodicals Index. The index covers nearly 300 art history periodicals from the mid-1850s through the 1960s. Search by artists, artworks, private and public collection names, exhibitions, and reproductions in a broad range of European languages.
As part of Open Access Week at Yale (10/19-10/24), Kress Fellow Alexandra Provo will be presenting "Open Access Images for Arts and Humanities" on Monday, 10/19 at 12 in Bass L06.
