Ten Apple iPad 4s are now available to borrow from the Arts Library Information and Reference Desk at Hunt Library. Arts Library iPads are pre-loaded with over 40 arts-related apps. Nine of the iPads can be checked out for 7 days, leaving one iPad available for 2-hour checkout.
Posted in art, Hunt Library, iPads
Exhibit and lecture series, March 2-June 29: Native Pennsylvania, A Wildflower Walk. Watercolors and herbaria. Presented by Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation in collaboration with the CMNH botany department. Poster lists a series of informal Sunday lectures to be held in conjunction with the exhibit. press release
Habenaria fimbriata peramoena, Large purple fringed orchid. Watercolor on paper by R. Crist.
Posted in art, botany, exhibits, Hunt Institute
Hunt Institute exhibition: “Botany and History Entwined: Rachel Hunt’s Legacy,” September 16-December 15. To celebrate our 50th anniversary, Hunt Institute presents rare gems from the original collection of our founder Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963). Hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-4 p.m. (except November 20 and 24-27).
Several talks and tours will expand upon different aspects of the exhibition. Assistant Curator of Art Catherine Hammond gives a gallery tour on Saturday, 29 October, and Publication and Marketing Manager Scarlett Townsend gives a tour of the Reading Room on Sunday, 30 October. Curator of Art Lugene Bruno’s talk, “Pierre-Joseph Redoute and his collaboration with botanists,” is on Sunday, 6 November. Librarian Charlotte Tancin’s talk, “At the center of the network: Dutch botanist Carolus Clusius (1526-1609),” is on Sunday, 4 December. All talks and tours will take place at 2 p.m.
Arts Library& Special Collections exhibits (Hunt Library, 4th floor)
In display cases: Zines and Comic Books, from the Artists Book Collection (March-April)
Open House, April 15 – or by appointment. In the Fine & Rare Book Room: Women on Women, from the Artists’ Book Collection (March-April)
On the walls: Image/Word/Place: The Dynamic Interface of Arts and Humanities – Now and Then. Cross-disciplinary student poster design collaborations (art/English) created in fall 2010 (March-May).
Access a suite of image databases – new, renewed, and longstanding databases that support teaching and learning with images: High-quality IMAGES for presentations and educational use. Some TOOLS for organizing, adding personal images, and structuring presentations. Includes:
designinform – Three linked databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR) which indexes journals; Design ProFILES (DP), a biographical dictionary of modern designers, craftspeople, artists and architects; and ReVIEW which delivers digitized 19th and early 20th century art journals.
Posted in architecture, art, CFA, databases, design
Bridgeman Education – Images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day.
Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion – Multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives regarding all aspects of dress and fashion globally from pre-history to the present. Articles and images. Updated 3 times per year.
Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work spans more than a thousand years of achievements and ranges from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq are elucidated here. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information. Copious illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world.
Posted in architecture, art, CFA, databases
Irvin Ungar, Curator of the Arthur Szyk Society, talks about the art and messages of the Polish-Jewish artist who was a leading political artist in America during WWII – 1/25/09 video
Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk is a traveling exhibit that was hosted at Carnegie Mellon’s Posner Center, January-March 2009. Rabbi Ungar lectured at the opening reception.
The Library Times 