The library has a new subscription to Belgian art magazine, Gagarin, which is “entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world. Gagarin wants to publish their words in an unfiltered way, in the form of autobiographical texts, artist’s texts, selected texts or interviews”. The texts are published in their original language, with unabridged translations in English added.

The most recent issue includes texts by Cerith Wyn Evans, Adrian Paci, Erwin Wurm, Paul McCarthy and Ugo Rondinone.

New books added to library stock in July include:

Studio Olafur Eliasson: an encyclopedia. Taschen, 2008. ART MX DEN
Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa. Afterall Books, 2008. ART MI 19 BOE
Enwezor, Okwui. Archive fever: uses of the document in contemporary art. International Center of Photography, New York, 2008. ART R 6 ENW
Heartney, Eleanor. Art & today. Phaidon, 2008. ART M 8 ART
Batchelor, David. Colour. Whitechapel / MIT Press, 2008. ART BA BAT

The full list can be found here: Library Acquisitions July 2008

The full list of library acquisitions for June can be found here: Library acquisitions June 2008

Francis Alÿs: Fabiola: an investigation. New York : Dia Art Foundation, 2008. ART MN 19 ALY
Chantal Akerman: moving through time and space. Blaffer Gallery, 2008. ART MN 19 AKE
David Claerbout: the shape of time. Pompidou Centre, 2008. ART MN 19 CLE

New books in the library in May include:

Obrist, Hans-Ulrich. Nancy Spero: the conversation series. Koenig Books, 2008. ART MU 19 SPE
Obrist, Hans-Ulrich. Olafur Eliasson: the conversation series. Koenig Books, 2008. ART MX DEN
Matt, Gerald. Interviews 2. Koenig Books, 2008. ART BH MAT

The full list can be found at: Library acquisitions May 2008

New books and DVDs added to library stock in April include:

Clarke, Michael. Verbalising the visual: translating art and design into words. AVA, 2007. ART BK CLA
Drawing now: between the lines of contemporary art. I.B. Tauris, 2007. ART M 15 DRA
Lang, Fritz. Die Nibelungen: Siegried, Kriemhild’s revenge. Kino Video. ISSUE DESK DVD 1216
Losowsky, Andrew. We love magazines. Mike Koedinger, 2007. ART PA 40 LOS

The full list can be found at: Library acquisitions April 2008

New books added to library stock in March include:

Cadere, André. Peinture sans fin. Walther König, 2007. ART MF 19 CAD
Eco, Umberto. On ugliness. Harvill Secker, 2007. ART BA ECO
Color as field: American painting 1950-1975. Smithsonian Museum, 2008. ART MU 15 COL
Shiff, Richard. Doubt. Routledge,  2008. ART A 8 SHI

The full list can be found here: Library acquisitions March 2008

The library has been building its collection of classic cinema on DVD. Recent purchases include early films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the silent films of D.W. Griffith, and the films of John Ford.

More DVDs will be arriving in the coming weeks.

The library has just purchased all back issues of the Henry Moore Institute series of pamphlets on the history of sculpture (apart from a few very early issues which are now out of print). These pamphlets, dating from 1996, were published to accompany exhibitions at the Institute. The most recent issue accompanies the current exhibition of early works by Ivor Abrahams.

The collection is shelved in ring binders at ART M 20 HEN

Alÿs, Francis. Politics of rehearsal, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2007. ART MN 19 ALY
Picabia, Francis. I am a beautiful monster: poetry, prose, and provocation. MIT, 2007. ART MF 19 PIC
Virilio, Paul. Art as far as the eye can see. Berg, 2007. ART BA VIR
Avant-garde 2: experimental cinema 1928-1954. Kino Video, 2007. ISSUE DESK DVD 1147

The full list can be found here: Library acquisitions February 2008

Items added to library stock during December and January include:

Matt, Gerald. Interviews. Koenig, 2007. ART BH MAT
Sound & vision. Damiani, 2007. ART M 8 SOU
Heartney, Eleanor. After the revolution: women who transformed contemporary art. Prestel, 2007. ART M 8 HEA
Amerika, Mark. Meta/data: a digital poetics. MIT, 2007. ART MU 19 AME

The full list can be found here: Library acquisitions December January 2008