Graphic Provocations: What do digital humanists want from visualization? 25 May 2016 6.00-7.00pm Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts G08, University College London (UCL) In the second installment of The Susan Hockey Lecture series, Prof Johanna Drucker will discuss various approaches to visualization, and how these can or could be used by digital humanists. Digital humanists […]
Im/Material: Encounters within the Creative Arts Archive Friday 13 and Saturday 14 May 2016 Banqueting Suite, Chelsea College of Arts, London, SW1P 4JU Im/Material: Encounters within the Creative Arts Archive brings together UK and international artists, archivists, curators and academics to consider the role of the archive in the creation, interpretation and preservation of culture. The […]
The Stuart Hall Library at Iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts) has organised a series of three talks with artists as part of our Clothes, Cloth and Culture Group series. The Clothes, Cloth and Culture Group is a monthly forum for creative practitioners and thinkers across the spectrum of artists, designers, curators, writers and […]
Event at the Showroom, London, 5th May 2016, 6:30-9pm An evening celebrating the friends of the Women of Colour Index (WOCI), a unique collection of slides and papers relating to the emergence of Black women artists in the UK in the mid-1980s. The collection was curated by the Black British-American artist, Rita Keegan during the 1980s-early […]
In this April feature we meet Vicky Kontou, Assistant Librarian (Acquisitions & Collection Development) at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She fills me in on cataloguing, collection development and the most surprising artists’ books hidden in dusty corners. How did you come to art librarianship? My BA and first MA degrees were in History of Art. After a […]
Exhibitions The Private Press Today at Gordon Russell Design Museum, Broadway, Worcestershire. 30th April – 30 June 2016 From Marytn Ould of The Old School Press: An exhibition of twenty UK presses, transferred from the recent show at St Bride. The Gordon Russell Design Museum in Broadway Worcestershire will be hosting an exhibition of private […]
Don’t forget, the ARLIS/UK & Ireland 2016 AGM will be taking place on 13 April, at the Paul Mellon Centre. This is your chance to be updated on the past year of ARLIS/UK & Ireland activity, to re-connect with your wonderful art library and archive peers and to have your say on the upcoming year. […]
‘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 […]