Happy Thanksgiving from Avery Library! We will be closed Thurs. 11/24 & Fri. 11/25. Be sure to check for other schedule changes: Thanksgiving Break hours […]
Month: November 2011
Durst Organization Archives, Old York Foundation Donates Substantial Collection and Funding to Avery Library
NEW YORK, November 14, 2011 – Columbia University Libraries’ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) announce an unprecedented $4 million gift from the Durst family, one of New York’s most respected commercial and residential real estate families. The Durst Organization has also donated Seymour Durst’s […]
Art Properties on Bwog
Bwog, the 24/7 blog incarnation of The Blue and White, Columbia University’s monthly undergraduate magazine, recently published an article about Art Properties, a department of Avery Library. […]
Avery Library Remembers Our Veterans
Today is Veterans Day. Avery Library has a great deal of material related to monuments, memorials and military architecture. Our Drawings & Archives collection has Henry Ogden Avery‘s competition entry for a memorial for Ulysses S. Grant [unbuilt] as well as drawings by Harold Van Buren Magonigle for a World War I Veterans Memorial in […]
Outsider Art books at Avery
In addition to traditional subjects in Art History, Avery Library also collects books on the strange, unsettling world of Outsider Art. Outsider art is a term used to describe art created by untrained artists who create works outside the boundaries of official culture. Here are a few examples of some current titles we have received: […]
Andrew Dolkart Speaks Tonight
Andrew S. Dolkart, Director, Columbia GSAPP Historic Preservation Program, and James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation, will be speaking tonight on "The Acropolis of New York: Creating Morningside Heights" at Riverside Church, room 9T from 6:30-8pm. Sponsored by MHHDC (Morningside Heights Historic District Committee) and Riverside Church, he will also be signing books. […]