November? Really?

Some random goodies

On the shelf
The Magazine Antiques highlights the Identity Theft! exhibition in their "Current and Coming" column of the November issue. Great short write-up including an image of our Gifford painting!

As usual, the latest issue of CRAFTS: the magazine of contemporary craft is one to read from cover to cover. Highlights for me? Tim Parson's excellent essay Value Judgment on the value of the hand-made; and the bonus Christmas Gift Guide! (Favorite item? Ornament with text: "i am hoping for world peace but would like something shiny as well")

Gift goodies
It may be Christmas already! The last few weeks have seen a bonanaza of gifts to the library. Many thanks to Nelson Grice, the Ceramic Circle of Charlotte, Beth Coleman, Mark Leach, Gail Brinn Wilkins and Francie Parrack! Wow! And a very special thank you to the Delhom Service League for providing funds for book purchases for the Delhom-Gambrell Library for the next year! Your support of the library is invaluable and we couldn't do it without you!

From the stacks
75 years ago: This cover artist should look familiar. (Click on the image to enlarge.)

On the web
Art book reviews from art librarians - Back 13 years and more being added! Go librarians.

On the shelf
In The Art Newspaper a review of John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913 by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray - the sixth volume in Sargent's catalogue raisonne - featuring the Mint's own watercolor, "At Chioggia"(2000.36.23), and, of course, available in the Mint library.

In the mountains
While checking out the leaves, check out the Studio Art Quilt Associates exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at App State called SAQA: 12 Voices. One of the exhibitors is fiber artist Linda Colsh, featured in the Fiberarts International exhibition at MMCD in 2007

From the stacks (part 2)
10 years ago: The wonderful now-defunct NEST magazine . . . with an article about George and a rather familiar print

NEW and on the shelf
Check out our first issue of The International Review of African American Art! From Hampton University (Rubie's alma mater!) This quarterly journal is a needed addition to our library resources. This issue includes an interview with collector Juliette Bethea and a great article called The Art of Social Design.

Wow! factor: The giant 3 volume boxed set Fired by Passion: Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier purchased with funds from The Delhom Service League is magnificent not only for its incredible content: beautiful photography and outstanding scholarship, but also for the quality of the publication itself - absolutely gorgeous!! The book that generated the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Du Paquier porcelain. Thank you DSL! Sneak a peek at the book if you have a chance and check out this video lecture by Meredith Chilton, the book's chief editor.

You know it as a source for information on special exhibitions, now you can use MintWiki for resources on the reinstallations of permanent collections at MMA Randolph Road! The page on the Chinese Court Robes is up and ones on "The Golden Age of English Art" and African art are on the way

Couldn't make it to Minneapolis for the American Craft Conference "Creating a New Craft Culture"? Access the presentations online! ACC has made (most of) them available as podcasts. Includes Faythe Levine, creator of the film and book Handmade Nation!