‘War Games’ Exhibition at Plymouth Museum, 6th February 2016 to 18th June 2016 ‘War Games’, a travelling exhibition from the V & A Museum of Childhood, explores the relationship between conflict and play, providing an insight into how toys have been influenced by warfare since the 1800s, as well as exploring propaganda and espionage from […]
I attended the latest LACA meeting on 24 February 2016, as a representative of ARLIS/UK & Ireland. I’m reporting here on one issue that arose: copyright in photos and scans of out-of-copyright works. The Intellectual Property Office released guidance a couple of months ago that suggests there is no new copyright in a copy of a work. This […]
Black Artists and Modernism (BAM) is an exciting and ground breaking research project which will have implications for visual resource discovery and the history of British art. Headed up by UAL in partnership with Middlesex University and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the project aims to re-write art history by illuminating the artwork and practices […]
‘The First Humans’ Plymouth Arts Centre, 15th January – 2nd April 2016. ‘The First Humans’ explores themes of pre-history, evolution and sci-fi imaginings of early man. Curated by Angela Kingston and organised by The Pump House Gallery in collaboration with Plymouth Arts Centre, ‘The First Humans’ features the work of Caroline Achaintre, Salvatore Arancio, Vidya […]
Does your institution run courses on FILM, ANIMATION and/or MEDIA? If so, why not purchase a copy of a short history of an English cinema which was amongst the first to show animated films made by the famous animator Arthur Melbourne-Cooper? Alpha to Odyssey: a short history of a St Albans’ cinema, by Penny Dade. […]
‘2D or 3D? Books with added value’ The Royal College of Art Library team has put together an exhibition in the RCA Library celebrating the art of the pop-up book, highlighting adventurous experiments with the form as an inspiring reminder of how flexible the book format can be. The titles in the exhibition, selected from […]
Heading to Dublin for LILAC (the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference)? No doubt as an art documentation professional you’ll want to take the opportunity to visit some of the capital’s wonderful and little known art libraries and archives! In which case, why not take a copy of the Art Researcher’s Guide to Dublin? Let it […]