New titles in the library:
- Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: the Public Sculpture of El Tajín by Rex Koontz - Wonderful scholarship; based on the work of Michael Kampen O'Riley whose drawings are featured in the book. (And we have the original drawings!) Click here for an excerpt.
- Fragiles: Porcelain, Glass & Ceramics - a great glorious book chockful of gorgeous photos of extraordinary objects. Thanks to the Friends of the Mint in honor of Annie 
- Night/Shift by Lynn Saville - More of Lynn's striking night photography. My favorite? A magical shot of Central Park with the skyline in the background. Her work is in the Mint collection.
- The 1931 Catalogue of Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Robert Henri. A compact but important record of this exhibition. Guess who requested this one?
- Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery by David Barker and Steve Crompton. A resource for and complement to the Mint's collection of English slipware. Folksy and appealing.
- Just in time for the 5th Annual Potters Market Invitational!
Thank you to HAT Thompson for her gift of The Living Tradition: North Carolina Potters Speak from the North Carolina Pottery Center. A wonderful collection of interviews with some of the finest potters in the state. And HAT of course got most of them to sign the book!
The new guy
Check out this interview from Charlotte Business Journal with Scott Provancher, new ASC president.
The new guy in the library
If you stop by the library on Monday, say hello to Justin Herman from the UNCG School of Library and Information Studies. He is doing his graduate practicum, or internship here at the Mint library. His first task was doing research in the Mint scrapbooks on Gladys Lavitan, a Charlotte actress who performed in a number of Mint Museum Drama Guild productions in the Golden Circle Theatre - now know as the Van Every Forum. (Ah ha, did you know there was a Mint Museum Drama Guild?)
From the library newstand
- In the latest issue of Dwell, the work of Pratt industrial design students is featured from their Design for a Dollar installation at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Innovative, clever and costs only a dollar! What is not to like!
- Since it is all about the shoes: Featured in the September issue of ARTNews, Christian Louboutin commissioned photographer Peter Lippman for the latest ad campaign and the results are stunning images in the style of 17th century vanitas paintings. See them on his web site and roll the mouse over the thumbnails on the right for more!
Trying to keep up
Here are a few blogs, web sites, etc. that are good for keeping up with what is going on in the (and our) artworld. Give them a spin!
- Godcity - These local artists stay active, activist and postive - it's all good.
- Newsgrist - a little NY-centric but good brief newsy posts
- ArtBabble - more great artist videos are added and more museums partner up everyday. Videos from Halston to Heffernan!
- ReadyMade weekly forecast - a great magazine - great online presence to check before your road trip
- Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: the Public Sculpture of El Tajín by Rex Koontz - Wonderful scholarship; based on the work of Michael Kampen O'Riley whose drawings are featured in the book. (And we have the original drawings!) Click here for an excerpt.
- Fragiles: Porcelain, Glass & Ceramics - a great glorious book chockful of gorgeous photos of extraordinary objects. Thanks to the Friends of the Mint in honor of Annie 
- Night/Shift by Lynn Saville - More of Lynn's striking night photography. My favorite? A magical shot of Central Park with the skyline in the background. Her work is in the Mint collection.
- The 1931 Catalogue of Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Robert Henri. A compact but important record of this exhibition. Guess who requested this one?
- Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery by David Barker and Steve Crompton. A resource for and complement to the Mint's collection of English slipware. Folksy and appealing.
- Just in time for the 5th Annual Potters Market Invitational!
Thank you to HAT Thompson for her gift of The Living Tradition: North Carolina Potters Speak from the North Carolina Pottery Center. A wonderful collection of interviews with some of the finest potters in the state. And HAT of course got most of them to sign the book!The new guy
Check out this interview from Charlotte Business Journal with Scott Provancher, new ASC president.
The new guy in the library
If you stop by the library on Monday, say hello to Justin Herman from the UNCG School of Library and Information Studies. He is doing his graduate practicum, or internship here at the Mint library. His first task was doing research in the Mint scrapbooks on Gladys Lavitan, a Charlotte actress who performed in a number of Mint Museum Drama Guild productions in the Golden Circle Theatre - now know as the Van Every Forum. (Ah ha, did you know there was a Mint Museum Drama Guild?)
From the library newstand
- In the latest issue of Dwell, the work of Pratt industrial design students is featured from their Design for a Dollar installation at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Innovative, clever and costs only a dollar! What is not to like!
- Since it is all about the shoes: Featured in the September issue of ARTNews, Christian Louboutin commissioned photographer Peter Lippman for the latest ad campaign and the results are stunning images in the style of 17th century vanitas paintings. See them on his web site and roll the mouse over the thumbnails on the right for more!
Trying to keep up
Here are a few blogs, web sites, etc. that are good for keeping up with what is going on in the (and our) artworld. Give them a spin!
- Godcity - These local artists stay active, activist and postive - it's all good.
- Newsgrist - a little NY-centric but good brief newsy posts
- ArtBabble - more great artist videos are added and more museums partner up everyday. Videos from Halston to Heffernan!
- ReadyMade weekly forecast - a great magazine - great online presence to check before your road trip
And in other library news
- Right off the bat, we got an upgrade to Polaris, the library software behind MARCO. Now it is just getting all our customizations back online! So it goes . . .
- And while it is true we have had to cut back on a few subscriptions, core art and craft publications remain. If you want to be sure to see the latest issue of any of our subscribed publications, you can ask that the latest issue be routed to you every time!
Just call me or send me an email and I can set it up for you! It's a breeze! So, if you want to read Sculpture or Art in America or Ceramics Monthly or Vogue as soon as it comes in, let me know!
And if you are not sure what magazines we subscribe to, search MARCO by selecting "serial" under "limit by " and place an asterisk (*) in the keyword field.
And welcome our newest staff member Lola! She's small but she makes an impact! (Thank you again Sandy!) Her friends can be found in the Mint Museum Shops!So, till next time!
