The Visual Arts Library is having a BOOK SALE.
When: Mon. to Fri. Dec. 3rd to Dec. 7th
Where: 380 Second Avenue (corner of 22nd Street) – 2nd floor
Time: 9am-9pm
We are selling lots of books and magazines. Most are priced at $2 and at 50 cents. We have free books too!
Cash Only
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The second The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival of 2012 is tomorrow. Boy did they get lucky with the weather! The Fest is free and will feature an exhibition hall of vendors at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church (275 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY) and presentations and discussions at The Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn NY), both just off the newly re-opened L train!
They have a star-studded line up of panelists (Chris Ware! Art Spiegelman! Charles Burns! and many more) and exhibitors. And it’s FREE!
Some books by participants in the Visual Arts Library:
People / Blexbolex – PZ7.B618653 Peo 2011
Building stories / Chris Ware – PN6727.W285 B85 2012 OVERSIZE
The man who grew his beard / by Olivier Schrauwen – PN6790.B43 S36 M3 2011
Theories of everything : selected, collected, and health-inspected cartoons, 1978-2006 / Roz Chast – NC1429.C525 A4 2006
MetaMaus / Art Spiegelman – D804.3 . S66 M4 2011
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If you have not registered for the 2012 elections, there is still time! We have voter registration forms at the Reference Desk – no postage required! Take part and let your voice be heard.
How: fill out the New York State Voter Registration Form (either pick one up at the Visual Arts Library or click the link, print a copy out and drop it in the mail).
Where: Use your address to find your local polling place
Who:
To find out who will be on your ballot (Federal, State and Local candidates), search by your address on VoteSmart.org
If you are not sure which presidential candidate best reflects your views, try a political test:
I Side With
Pro/Con 2012 Presidential Race
USA Today Candidate Match Game (Just Romney & Obama)
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Guggenheim:
-Art of another kind : international abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960 — June 8–September 12, 2012
-Rineke Dijkstra : a retrospective –June 29–October 8, 2012
Art of another kind : international abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960 – N6487.N4 S6382 2012
Rineke Dijkstra : a retrospective – TR680 .D55 2012
Metropolitan Museum
-Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible conversations — May 10–August 19, 2012
-Ellsworth Kelly Plant drawings, 1948-2010 — June 5–September 3, 2012
-Naked before the Camera — March 27–September 9, 2012
Schiaparelli & Prada : impossible conversations / Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda – TT505.S3 K63 2012
Ellsworth Kelly : plant drawings, 1948-2010 – NC139.K37 A4 2011
MoMA
-Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan — July 1–October 1, 2012
-Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 — July 29–November 5, 2012
Alighiero Boetti : game plan / edited by Lynne Cooke, Mark Godfrey – N6923.B588 A4 2012
Century of the child : growing by design, 1900-2000 / Juliet Kinchin, Aidan O’Connor – NA2543.Y6 K56 2012
Whitney
YAYOI KUSAMA –JULY 12–SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
SHARON HAYES: THERE’S SO MUCH I WANT TO SAY TO YOU — JUNE 21–SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
Yayoi Kusama / edited by Frances Morris – N7359.K87 A4 2012
Sharon Hayes : There’s so much I want to say to you – N6537.H379 A4 2012
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Recent visitors to the Visual Arts Library will have noted from the canvas tarps and plastic sheeting that we are undergoing a cosmetic touch up. While it may not be the full on makeover some would like, we hope to come out a little prettier after the process is over in a few weeks, with gleaming carpet tiles and no strands of peeling paint dangling overheard.
Here are a few titles on interior design for those who get inspired by the sight of a little urban self-improvement:
Human dimension & interior space : a source book of design reference standards / by Julius Panero and Martin Zelnik. – NA2542.4 P356 1979
Interior design since 1900 / Anne Massey – NK1980 .M3 2008
Offices : industrial interiors – NK2195.O4 .O33 2005
Professional practice for interior designers / Christine M. Piotrowski. – NK2116.2 .P57 2008 (& CD-Rom)
Sustainable commercial interiors / Penny Bonda, Katie Sosnowchik – TH880 .B66 2007
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SVA alumna Marguerite (“Margo”) Dabaie has organized this year’s Pete’s Mini Zine Fest, a FREE “fest-in-a-bar” on Saturday, July 21st at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn. (Check the Facebook page for more details)
From their site: “Our celebration of the duplicated arts promises a good time and a relaxing atmosphere, and is a great opportunity to really get to know our wonderful, talented tablers. Nurse a beer; read some zines.”
This year’s participants:
Andria Alefhi – We’ll Never Have Paris
Darryl Ayo – Little Garden
Elvis Bakaitis – Homos in Herstory
Aida Binhas – Bon Nui Dreamland
C. M. Butzer – Rabid Rabbit Comic Anthology
Colin – Slice Harvester
Marguerite Dabaie – The Hookah Girl
Christopher Michael Duffy – Dirty Parts
Jenna Freedman – Lower East Side Librarian
Abigail Geraldine – In These Shells
Cat Gilbert – The 22 Magazine
Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz – Living in La La Land
Dre Grigoropol – Dee’s Dream
Alisa Harris – Urban Nomad
Katie Haegele – The La-La Theory
Aaron Howard – Oilcan Press
Gus Iversen
Jemibook – Lolita
John Jennison – Crisis of Infinite Cells
Mark Lerer – The Little General
Sara Lindo – Wall Street Cat
L. Nichols – Jumbly Junkery
Morgan Pielli – Indestructible Universe Quarterly
Bill Roundy – Bar Scrawl
Steve Seck – Life is Good
Tiffany Stevens and Lindsay Marionara – Terrific Terrific Terrific
A small sample of titles on Zines and mini-comics in the library – not to mention our Mini & Underground Comics collections (you can check them out, just like books! – located just around the corner from the waterfountain):
Whatcha mean, what’s a zine? : the art of making zines and mini comics / Mark Todd + Esther Peal Watson – Z286.Z54 T63 2006
Notes from underground : zines and the politics of alternative culture / Stephen Duncombe – PN4878.3 .D86 1997
Newave! : the underground mini comix of the 1980′s / edited by Michael Dowers. – PN6726 .N49 2010
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Today is much lamented art world superstar and SVA alum Keith Haring‘s 54th birthday and he has been honored with a Google Doodle.
If you have not seen it yet, do not miss the Keith Haring: 1978–1982 exhibit, up at the Brooklyn Museum through July 8, 2012!
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Do you know what tomorrow is? May 1st, otherwise known as May Day, and the Occupy Wall Street movement has called for a May Day strike to demonstrate what happens to our system when the 99% stay home or otherwise opt out.
Below are just a few of the myriad stickers, posters, and graffiti out there in the streets of NYC promoting the strike and then a few titles on political art for those interested to delve further.
*The SVA Library will be open tomorrow for our Summer break hours, from 9 to 7, for strikers or any other members of the SVA community looking for a place to read, research, and/or relax. Happy May Day!
In the streets:
In the library:
Agitate! educate! organize! : American labor posters / Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher – NC1849.L3 C874 2009
Street art cookbook / Benke Carlsson, Hop Louie – ND2590 .C375 2010
Bomb It – V-D R458 Bom DVD
New American street art / photography by Bob Edelson – ND2608 .E34 1999
Angry graphics / Karrie
Jacobs & Steven Heller – E169.12.H45 1992
Art and propaganda in the twentieth century : the political image in the age of mass culture / Toby Clark – NX650.P6 C63 1997
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This weekend Gary Panter, creator of Jimbo, designer of the Pee Wee’s Playhouse set, and SVA faculty member, will be honored at MOCCAfest with their 2012 Klein Award.
Check out Panter’s still timely 1980 Rozz-Tox Manifesto on art and commerce, originally posted in the personals section of the LA Reader and then published in the Ralph Records catalog.** The title comes from Panter’s term for his own ‘raggedy style’. I tried pulling out highlights, but it ended up being so long, may as well post the whole thing (see below).
From an interview, on his development: >>I always wanted to be an artist, and while in a high-school I went to the library and soaked up everything that they had there. And when I went to collage–it was only 20 miles away from where I grew up–they had a bigger library. I just progressed through this series of things, I can show you my sketchbooks from that time. Mostly, it just goes through hippie stuff, I was drawn to rough-printed things. And as I spent time near the Mexican border when I was a kid, Mexican elements had an influence on me — these raggedy, weird colors. But also the Yellow Submarine animated film was fascinating to me, big cultural things like that. I went through studying art history, and then right before I had my bad acid trip, I just kind of reached the end of it. I had an epiphany about this raggedy style and called it Rozz-Tox.<<
To explore Panter’s work in the library:
Cola madnes / by Gary Panter – PN6727.P36 C6 2000
Gary Panter / edited by Dan Nadel – PN6727.P36 G37 2008
Jimbo in Purgatory : being a mis-recounting of Dante Alighieri’s Divine comedy in pictures and un-numbered footnotes / by Gary Panter – PN6727.P36 J53 2004 OVERSIZE
Jimbo’s inferno / Gary Panter – PN6727.P36 J57 2006 OVERSIZE
Satiroplastic : [sketchbook facsimile] / drawings by Gary Panter – PN6727.P36 S3 2005
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The Rozz-Tox Manifesto (text version)
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Food for Fines – 4/20 to 4/30
1 can of food = $2 off your fines
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