Planning is now underway for the next ARLIS UK & Ireland Conference, to be held in London at The Architectural Association on the 26th and 27th of July 2018. Would you like to be part of the team planning and organising the conference? There are a variety of roles and responsibilities, including helping to organise and select the programme, working […]
In this August feature we meet Anastasia Kerameos, Serials Librarian at the British Film Institute (BFI), and member of the fascinating Magic Lantern Society… How did you come to librarianship? At school I loved the library with its wooden floors and shelves, the beautiful view of countryside out of its windows and of course the books […]
Want a chance to not only visit Los Angeles but conduct some research at the wonderful Getty Research Institute? Please see the following announcement from the Getty Foundation: The Getty Library. Image taken by Alexandra Duncan, 2015. “Getty Library Research Grants provide partial, short-term support for researchers requiring the use of specific collections housed […]
Artists’ Books News, August 2017 Exhibitions Seeing Through Drawing A Celebration of John Berger at Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich Until 26th August 2017 ‘Seeing Through Drawing’ is a celebration of the writer and artist John Berger and his passionate love of drawing. It takes two forms – an exhibition and a new book. The exhibition […]
Brussels: the birthplace of Art Nouveau The inter-disciplinary movement of Art Nouveau emerged in the late 19th century, and lasted little more than ten years before morphing into the more stripped-back style of Art Deco. Born from the desire to break with the ideas of the past epochs, the new art was forged in […]
Opening up a national collection to creative practitioners at The National Archives What is going through your mind the first time you lift that lid off the box and see a cast of a child’s hand? You may have a number of questions just by looking at the object: for example, who did this […]
The death has been announced of Trevor Fawcett, aged 83, who died peacefully in Bath on 21 July 2017. Trevor was a founder member of ARLIS, senior librarian at the University of East Anglia, initiator of the History of Bath Research Group, and a widely respected author and editor of many articles and several […]