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The Trouble With Painting

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 30 November 2010

ica1.jpgThe ICA has a number of talks available on YouTube, including this recent debate on the value of painting, The Trouble With Painting:

‘Why do artists continue to paint? Does painting have an intrinsic value? In the lead up to Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 at the ICA, Bruce McLean, Vanessa Jackson, Margarita Gluzberg and Mark Leckey take part in this discussion, considering the current state of painting today. Chaired by ICA curator David Thorp.’

Andy Warhol on Ubuweb

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 26 November 2010

ubuweb.jpgTaped discussions between Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, Man Ray, Mick Jagger, and others are now avalable at Ubuweb Sound, as well as David Cronenberg’s lecture on Warhol, recorded at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2006.

Ways of Seeing on Ubuweb

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 5 October 2010

waysofseeing1.jpgJohn Berger’s 1972 BBC tv series Ways of Seeing is now available in full on Ubuweb. A series of visual essays which question the hidden ideologies of images, the programme was accompanied by a book of the same title which can be found in the library at ART BA BER.

Tarkovsky films available online

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 28 September 2010

tarkovsky.jpgAndrei Tarkovsky’s seven feature films are now available to watch online at the Open Culture website. Open Culture has also compiled an extensive list of films available from other sources, including titles by Ken Loach, Frank Capra, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang and many more.

John Cage in The New Yorker

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 28 September 2010

John CageSelected issues from the online archive of the New Yorker are now freely available, including this interview with John Cage from November 1964.

Flux Art: An Historical Perspective

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 24 September 2010

georgebrecht.jpeVisit the Internet Archive to listen to an interview with George Brecht, Fluxus artist and avant-garde composer.

Summer acquisitions

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 24 September 2010

Brion GysinNew items added to the Art collections over the summer include:

Gysin, Brion. Dream machine. Merrell / New Museum, 2010. ART MU 19 GYS
Gann, Kyle. No such thing as silence: John Cage’s 4’33″. Yale University Press, 2010. ART PX 20 CAG
Milner, Greg. Perfecting sound forever: the story of recorded music. Granta, 2009. ART PX 20 MIL
Philosophers on art from Kant to the Postmodernists: a critical reader. Columbia University Press, 2010. ART BA KUL
Molderings, Herbert. Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance: art as experiment. Columbia University Press, 2010. ART MF 19 DUC

For the full list visit LibraryThing

Brian Eno Interviewed on KPFA’s Ode to Gravity, 1980

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 24 September 2010

eno73a.jpeVisit the Internet Archive to stream a 1980 interview with Brian Eno in which he discusses, among other things, the influence of phonetic poetry, Kurt Schwitters, Hugo Ball, and Richard Huelsenbeck.

Library acquisitions May 2010

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 2 June 2010

In numbersNew books in the Library in May include:

Furlong, William. Speaking of art: four decades of art in conversation. Phaidon, 2010. ART BH FUR
Häussler, Harriet. According to the artists: 13 questions, 51 interviews. Kerber, 2009. ART M 8 HAU
Thea, Dorothea. On curating: interviews with ten international curators. D.A.P., 2009. ART A 4.9 THE
Burgin, Victor. Situational aesthetics: selected writings. Leuven University Press, 2009. ART BA BUR
Aarons, Philip E. In numbers: serial publications by artists since 1955. JRP Ringier, 2009. ART PA 50 AAR

For the full list visit LibraryThing

The Modernist Journals Project

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 26 May 2010

BlastThe Modernist Journals Project is a joint digitisation project of Brown University and the University of Tulsa which aims to be a major resource for the study of modernism and its rise in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. The aim of the project is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from the early 20th century and make them freely available via the website. Journals include Blast, Wyndham Lewis’ ‘quintessential modernist little magazine’, and its successor, The Tyro; Robert Graves’ The Owl; and influential literary magazine, The English Review.