Saratoga Film Forum – Rebels of Art Weekend
The Saratoga Film Forum is featuring the following films in its Rebels of Art Weekend:
Gerhard Richter Painting
Thurs., May 3rd, 7:30 p.m.
Filmgoers are invited to stay for a discussion of the film and Richter’s work with Tang Teaching Museum Curator Ian Berry of Skidmore College.
Sound of Noise
Fri., May 4th, 7:30 p.m.
This Is Not a Film (In film nist)
Sun., May 6th, 7 p.m.
Scribner Library Image Collections
The Scribner Library Image Collections, which currently comprise more than 25,000 digital images, is hosted within the ARTstor Digital Library alongside more than 1 million additional images, which are available to the Skidmore community through our ARTstor subscription.
The collections include:
- Skidmore College Visual Resources Collection
- Moreen O’Brien Maser Memorial Collection
- Norman M. Fox Collection of Victorian Illustrated books
- 100 Artists’ Books from Special Collections
- Rob Linrothe: Tibetan and Buddhist Art
- Archvision Library
For further assistance and to learn more about building digital collections, please contact the Visual Resources office.
Library Exhibition: Past and Present
“Past and Present: An Illustrated Look at Regency and Victorian Times Versus Today“ examines aspects of our modern age in relation to Regency and Victorian tomes, focusing on “past” and “present” in beverage consumption, fashion, popular icons, childhood, and entertainment.
Together the five cases provide an illustrated look of how our present world resembles and departs from the past and hopfullt rekindles interest in the long 19th century, the dawning of our modern era.
Curated by Dr. Catherine Golden, Professor of English, with her class EN228H, “The Victorian Illustrated Book,” Spring 2012.
The exhibit will be on display in the Harris Lobby until May 5, 2012.
Trial database: Classical Music in Video
Classical Music in Video will be the definitive online collection for the study of classical music in video format. At completion it will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and master classes captured on video – approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with master classes and interviews with master teachers from around the world.
Scope
Coverage of musical time periods spans Medieval to the 21st century, and performances cover historical recordings from the 1950s up to the most current recordings today.
Content
Sample titles include the Cardiff Singer of the World competitions, Andre Previn’s Music Night; BBC Proms concerts; John Cage’s 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs; George Crumb’s Makrokosmos I & II; Great Conductors of the Third Reich: Art in the Service of Evil; and Xenakis: String Quartets. Other content includes performances, interviews and documentaries from EuroArts, a leading producer of classical music programming for over 25 years.
Teaching and research tools
- Synchronized, searchable, scrolling transcripts run alongside nearly all the videos, enhancing navigation and access.
- A visual table of contents for scanning hours of video in seconds – thumbnails of the video at intervals.
- Easy queuing of the video for in-class or assigned watching.
- Clip-making tools and personalized playlists you can annotate and share – each with a permanent URL – for integrating video into the syllabus or course management systems seamlessly.
- On-the-go access using most handheld mobile devices.
- All videos, and all your clips and playlists, have permanent URLs for embedding in published papers and presentation.
For more information, see the product page on Alexander Street Press.
Scribner Library on Pinterest
The Scribner Library is now on Pinterest!
The Library will be using Pinterest to visually highlight different aspects of the collection. Check out our first 3 boards:
Major expansion of the Google Art Project
From now on, art lovers around the world will be able to discover not just paintings, but also sculpture, street art and photographs from 151 museums in 40 countries.
The original Art Project counted 17 museums in nine countries and 1,000 images, almost all paintings from Western masters. Today, the Art Project includes more than 30,000 high-resolution artworks, with Street View images for 46 museums.
You can find the Google Art Project on the Art & Art History LibGuide under Images.
Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
Sheila Levrant De Bretteville, Pink Broadsheet (1974)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women’s history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women’s history accessible. The collection currently includes 102 document projects and archives with more than 4,050 documents and 51,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by some 2,100 primary authors. It also includes images (such as posters and photographs), scholarly essays, and notes from the archives, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.
To search for images, under Document Type, choose: artwork, cartoon, drawing, illustration, photograph, portrait, poster, etc.
Women and Social Movements can be found on the Library’s Research Databases page.
For more information: http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com
50 Books/50 Covers
Last year the AIGA chose the 50 best-designed books and book covers from 2010.
The results feature books from a wide variety of publishers.
The Scribner Library owns the following books, so you can see some of them for yourself!
Infinite City: a San Francisco Atlas
McSweeney’s Issue 36
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
Tanguy, Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction
From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America
About AIGA: Founded in 1914 as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA remains the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design and is now known simply as ”AIGA, the professional association for design.“
Taiko Project at Zankel
The Skidmore College Department of Music will present the Taiko Project as part of the Filene Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at the Arthur Zankel Music Center.
The Taiko Project is an ensemble of premiere taiko drummers dedicated to promoting and advancing the art of taiko.
Learn more about taiko drumming by checking out a book or DVD from the Scribner Library. Search the library catalog LUCY using the keyword “taiko”: http://lucy2.skidmore.edu/
Tang Museum Dialogue with artist Donald Moffett and Mason Stokes
Donald Moffett, Lot 121909 (18/o), 2009, Oil on linen with wood panel support
Thursday, March 22
In conjunction with the exhibition, Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein
6:30PM – Reception
7:00PM - Dunkerley Dialogue with artist Donald Moffett and Mason Stokes, Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Skidmore College
Join Mason Stokes in conversation with New York based artist/activist Donald Moffett whose exhibition, Donald Moffett:The Extravagant Vein, is currently on view at the Tang Museum. As an original member of ACT UP and the 1980s AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, Moffett has been—and continues to be—a persistent and influential presence on the the New York art scene. Moffett and Stokes will discuss ideas, catalysts, and the context in which Moffett has been making art for the past twenty years. Stokes, an Associate Professor of English and chair of the English Department of Skidmore College, teaches courses in African American Literature and the history of sexuality.
To read more about Donald Moffett, check out the book:
Donald Moffett: the Extravagant Vein
You can view his biography on ArtNet.
