and feeling warm and fuzzy inside . . . (it's a nesting thing)
Big news! Just got word that the library's latest
NEH grant application has been approved. Yippee! The grant award will be used to purchase a large (and I do mean large), locking, glass-front storage cabinet for special collections. Thank you NEH!
Favorite reference question of the week: Local author called to find out what exhibitions the museum had in 1990. Her novel-in-progress covers that period in Charlotte and she wanted to be accurate. You never know what folks are going to ask about.
Congratulations to
Michael Sherill for being named a
2010 USA Windgate Fellow. Every year, 50 artists across a range of disciplines are selected to receive $50,000 unrestricted funds to further their work and career. Well deserved!
Wiki interactive: British ceramist Bethan Lloyd Worthington updated her Mint wiki page! Bethan's work is featured in
Contemporary British Studio Ceramics: The Grainer Collection and she is, naturally, featured on the
exhibition's wiki page. Bethan provided links to
her own web page and the site for her
studio group. Thank you Bethan!
New titles in the house!
- Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture - yes, the companion volume to the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Brilliant. Truly.
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Sally Mann: the Flesh and the Spirit - from the exhibition now on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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The Art of Dining: a History of Cooking and Eating - From Elizabethan tableware to Edwardian service
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New Deal Art in North Carolina: the Murals, Sculptures, Reliefs, Paintings, Oils and Frescoes and Their Creators - the only record of all of the North Carolina art created under the public art program
- The Global Africa Project - MAD's exhibition that "displays the . . . nature of being African, or African-descended, in the context of contemporary arts and design."
If you happen to be at MMR, any day of the week, stop into the library and say hello to one of the new interns. They will be working hard this semester. Megan, Catherine and Sarah, welcome! and thank you!
Other NGS (new good stuff)
- Blog:
Green Thing - check out the stuff made from left-over corrugated cardboard
- And just because there is a new episode (Yes!)and it is the dark of winter: Here they are, Strindberg and Helium! (It actually is better if you start with the first one and work your way through)
http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/index.htmlGoal for FY12: Let's get the
Wikipedia entry for Romare Bearden squared away with up-to-date, correct infromation. More people than we like to think about use Wikipedia as a primary resource for information, so let's give it to them and make it right.
Recommended reading: A collection of short articles in
Dwell "An Introduction to Art Collecting." An abbreviated version of the articles can be read
online; or read the full version in the library!
And more good news: The folks at
FAMSI are willing to host the digital versions of the
Michael Kampen drawings the sculptures of
El Tajin that were donated to the library several years ago. More to come on this exciting project!
Happy Friday
