On July 20, 2017
by
Tessa Morefield
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The VRC has just uploaded over 40 images to MDID from TASCHEN’s catalog Ren Hang, which covers the entire career of Chinese photographer Ren Hang and includes many never-before-seen photos by the artist, who sadly took his life in February of this year at the young age of 29. While Hang was controversial in his homeland, much like the artist activist Ai Weiwei, he quickly achieved in... ... read more -
Reknowned filmmaker and cultural innovator, George Romero passed away on July 16th, 2017 at the age of 77. A filmmaker whose work in horror was so groundbreaking that his last name alone is forever associated with the zombie fever that swept theaters in the late-60's & 70's with his classic Night / Dawn / Day Of The Dead series. It is difficult, in retrospect, to understand the impac... ... read more -
The SVA Library has subscribed to Flipster, a digital magazine solution for reading complete digital surrogates of magazines online and via a mobile app. It's available to all SVA students, faculty and staff, and is a great reading option for NYC commuters! The library subscribes to 35 magazine titles in Flipster: 3D World, Animation, Aperture, Art in America, Artfor... ... read more -
The VRC just added over 150 images of Korean funerary figurines from the Kokdu Museum's collection of more than 20,000 pieces. A central part of Korea's traditional funeral ceremony during the Joseon Dynasty, these painted wooden figurines known as kokdu, were placed on and around the ornate funeral biers used to transport the dead to their burial sites. Depicting anthropomorphic, huma... ... read more -
Happy Independence Day! The SVA Library will close at 1pm on Friday, June 30th and remain closed through Tuesday, July 4th. The library will reopen at 9am on Wednesday, July 5th. Enjoy a safe and happy holiday weekend! ... read more -
Skymass [looking above, out of skylight], 2003. Installation, dimensions variable. Valley of the Moon Ranch, Clinton, Montana. It is no secret we [here in the VRC] are huge fans of artist James Turrell's light installations. While we always encourage the SVA community to check out the 35+ images of the artist's works that we've uploaded on MDID, or to come into the Library to se... ... read more -
All summer, the SVA Library is shining the spotlight on LGBTQ Cinema. Come check out our full bay display of over thirty films and revel in some of the finest cinema ever set to celluloid, including such Queer classics as Sally Potter's gender-swapping Orlando, adapted from the Virginia Woolf novel; the coming-of-age tale, My Beautiful Laundrette, adapted by Hanif Kureishi&n... ... read more -
The SVA Library now has a corporate membership pass to the Museum of Modern Art to circulate to SVA faculty and staff. This pass can be checked out from the circulation desk for one week at a time. Benefits of the pass include: Free admission and priority entrance for the cardholder and up to four* guests. No tickets required - simply present the card to be scanned at t... ... read more -
The SVA Library has begun a site license subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education. This subscription gives the entire SVA community access to all premium features of the Chronicle online, including the latest articles. To access premium features of the subscription, visit the Chronicle from the library's A-Z Databases page. The Chronicle is the No. 1 sour... ... read more -
The SVA Library computer lab is being renovated during summer 2017 to create a larger floor plan to accommodate additional iMacs and new Cintiq tablets. Demolition work will begin on Thursday, May 25, 2017, and the work is anticipated to take about 4 weeks to complete. During this time there will be some excessive noise in the library, and there will be limited computi... ... read more