Auction catalog databases are essential in Museum Libraries, but in fact, they can be critical for Art Historical researchers as well. We now have two new databases that might be good tools for our researchers: SCIPIO : art and rare books sales/auction catalogs: This database provides bibliographic access to art auction and rare book sales […]
Columbia Libraries Graduate Internship Program in Primary Sources
Columbia University Libraries Graduate Internship Program in Primary Sources Invites Applications: http://library.columbia.edu/find/special-collections/internships/apply.html The Columbia University Libraries’ Graduate Student Internship Program is designed to enrich graduate studies and professional training in primary sources through an introduction to archival work, supplemented with lectures, workshops and tours. Once trained, interns arrange, describe and catalogue collections, and create finding […]
Avery Welcomes Teri Harris, New Curator of Classics Collection
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Teresa Harris as the Curator of Avery Classics. A long-time reader in Avery Classics, Teri is well acquainted with our outstanding collection and with the worldwide community of scholars who work here throughout the year. Her substantial knowledge of architectural history and special collections will guide her […]
Object-Centered Learning Symposium
OBJECT-CENTERED LEARNING: Experiencing the Authentic in a Digital Age Symposium sponsored by Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Libraries Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:00 am – 12:30 pm Butler Library, Room 523 Columbia University 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY Please join us for an engaging discussion of how close interactions […]
New Multimedia Architecture Resource
On Architecture is an online audiovisual service providing a detailed panorama of the world’s main authors, works, experiences related to the field of architecture. The collection features original videos, such as interviews, buildings and installations, all of this enriched with a selection of complementary material about the main authors and figures of contemporary architecture.Once you […]
New Avery Location Guide
We are shifting collections within Avery Library to re-allocate use of the space. New maps will be forthcoming; in the interim, use this Location Guide to call number locations & annotations. Avery Location Guide […]
Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings in Legos
Here is an interesting New York Times article on Adam Reed Tucker building a model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West with Legos: Check out the Frank Lloyd Wright Lego sets we have at Avery Library: […]
Happy Holidays from Avery Library
Avery Library wishes you Happy Holidays and a great New Year!! Avery Library will close at 5pm on Wed. Dec. 24. Click here for our Intersession hours. Click here to become a Friend of Avery Library. […]
Avery Art Properties: Chinese Buddhist Sculptures at the Nassau County Museum of Art
Art Properties has loaned 10 Buddhist stone sculptures and ink rubbings taken from 2 of these works to the exhibition China Then and Now, which runs from November 22, 2014 to March 8, 2015, at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, NY. These Chinese sculptures date from the Northern Wei (386-534) to the […]
Avery Art Properties at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Along with the current international retrospective on Florine Stettheimer in Germany, to which Columbia is the major lender, Art Properties has loaned a painting by Stettheimer to the exhibition “Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History,” which runs from October 17, 2014, to January 4, 2015, at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian […]