Staff from Avery Classics have worked closely with Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (D.A.P.) and Designers & Books as they created a meticulous facsimile of the nine and a half issues of Archigram magazine. Editors used Avery Library’s copies of the magazine (call number AB Ar2179F) to ensure the accuracy of the facsimile, comparing the proofs […]
New life for an old friend: Ming Dynasty sculpture on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anyone who has visited the Faculty Room in Low Library over many decades may recall seeing a cheerful statue of a child made of gilded bronze. Sometimes a work of art on view in the same location can lead to its eventual “invisibility,” so when an opportunity was offered to showcase this sculpture from Art […]
SITE James Wines: a selection of slides
Avery Library is pleased to announce that we have digitized almost 3,000 slides selected by James Wines from the SITE architectural records and James Wines papers which were donated in 2020. These slides are now available through JSTOR. Wines co-founded S.I.T.E. (Sculpture In The Environment) in 1970 with his colleague Alison Sky. The archival collection […]
Landscape(d): an exhibition
Avery Library is pleased to announce that a new exhibition, Landscape(d), with eleven paintings from the Art Properties collection, is now on view in the Judith Lee Stronach Center, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Schermerhorn Hall. This exhibition is the eighth iteration organized by students in the MA in Art History program, under the guidance […]
Lena Newman named Curator of Avery Classics
We are pleased to announce that Lena Newman is the new Curator of Avery Classics. Lena began as a student employee on the Avery Index before becoming the Classics Reading Room assistant and then the Special Collections Librarian at Avery. Her duties as Special Collections Librarian have been subsumed into the Curator’s role. Lena […]
Avery Library launches Frank Lloyd Wright Digital Archive
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new online resource, the Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) Digital Archive. This resource is the product of an ongoing, three-year initiative at Columbia University Libraries to digitize and make available more than 15,000 residential drawings from the Frank Lloyd Wright archival collections. […]
Avery Library Announces Major Gift of the Michael Sorkin Collection: Internationally Renowned Architecture Critic, Designer, Urbanist, & Professor Devoted to Social Justice
Avery Library is pleased to announce the major gift of Michael Sorkin’s papers, architectural records, and drawings to the Drawings & Archives department. This significant collection comprises approximately 40 linear feet of records related to Sorkin’s architectural projects, articles, films, exhibitions, and other works, over 2,000 drawings (primarily conceptual sketches and site plans), as […]
Avery Library Celebrates the Opening of Frank Lloyd Wright and the World: The Imperial Hotel at 100
Avery Library’s Drawings & Archives department is pleased to participate in a landmark touring exhibition about the international influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright and the World: The Imperial Hotel at 100. Opening to the public on October 21, 2023 at Japan’s Toyota Municipal Art Museum, the exhibition is organized by the […]
The Inquiring Eye: European Drawings from the Lola Szladits Collection
The 7th MA in Art History Presents project, in which graduate students curate a small exhibition from the Art Properties, Avery Library collection, under the guidance of Prof. Frederique Baumgartner and Curator of Art Properties Roberto C. Ferrari, is now on view. The title of this year’s show is The Inquiring Eye: European Drawings from […]
Teri Harris Announced as Director of Avery Library
Vice Provost and University Librarian Ann D. Thornton has announced the appointment of Teresa (Teri) Harris as Director of Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Harris will assume the Director role on August 1, overseeing all aspects of Avery’s operations, including collection development, research services, access services, art properties, digitization and exhibition loan programs, facilities management, and the […]