Library news
Every month, the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries acquire thousands of new books. Here is a small selection of this month's new books:
Women of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1940
Fanciful Images: Japanese Banko Ceramics
Bosch, Brueghel, Rubens, Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Albertina
Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project
The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art
Czech Modern Painters: 1888-1918
John Fincher: Paintings, Assemblages & Works on Paper
British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art
1 day 7 hours ago
The Art Institute of Chicago
CLOSING MONDAY—Recent Acquisitions of Textiles, 2004–2011 showcases dazzling textile designs from around the world. See these rare objects before they go off view. LEARN MORE—http://ow.ly/llgMU
2 days 1 hour ago
The Art Institute of Chicago
Guess who! Introducing our new blog series Celebrity Doppelgängers… Do you see a resemblance between this figure from a 17th-century woodcut and a certain comic actor from Wilmette, Illinois? BLOG—http://ow.ly/lkY8Y
ARTicle, our blog
- Work of the Week: Ivan Albright
- Celebrity Doppelgängers
- What’s Your Story?
- Art Scene Investigation: Testing the DNA of Sculptures
- Work of the Week: Picasso
- Art Scene Investigation: From Can to Canvas
- Works of the Week: Cut it Out!
- Work of the Week: Spring is Coming
- New Acquisition: Cotton Pickers
- Work of the Week: Manet
YouTube
- LaunchPad: Ancient Glassmaking—The Roman Mold-Blown Technique
- LaunchPad: Conserving Ancient and Byzantine Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
- LaunchPad: Ancient Greek Vase Production and the Black-Figure Technique
- LaunchPad: Ancient Glassmaking—The Roman Mold-Blown Technique
- LaunchPad: Ancient Glassmaking—The Free-Blown Technique