The artist’s methods – Degas’s “Waiting”
When you study a painting, do you look at it closely? Do you look for fine details of how the artist has chosen to highlight a particular feature? Maybe you’re a dancer and you...
When you study a painting, do you look at it closely? Do you look for fine details of how the artist has chosen to highlight a particular feature? Maybe you’re a dancer and you...
Many artists, and that includes many of our own students, find inspiration for their art and performances from our natural surroundings. Cheryl Tipp, the Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds at the British Library,...
Dance in Video contains five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well...
Calling all dance and performing arts students and staff! Are you one for making New Year’s Resolutions? Whether you are or not, now is a great time to explore the gems that are available...
Then check out our subscription to the Journal of Arts and Communities. The coverage of this journal encompasses active creative collaboration between artists and people across a range of communities including visual arts, media,...
Are you interested in researching the interdisciplinary field of arts and health? We subscribe to the international ‘Arts and Health‘ journal which covers research, policy and practice. There is interest across the world about...
Did you see Marina Abramović take over the Sky Arts channel? One of our academic liaison librarians had this to say after she watched it – “What I saw was astonishing, thought provoking, deeply...
For this year’s Black History Month, curator of classical music at The British Library, Johnathan Summers, chose to write a short piece about Eddie South who was a black American violinist. He explores Eddie’s...
Are you someone who writes their Christmas cards early, or do you suddenly realise the last posting date has come and you haven’t even started writing them?! Do you buy your Christmas cards, or...
The British Library has a collection of oral history of jazz in Britain. A local lad, James Howe, features in this archive. He was born in County Durham in 1917 and served as band boy...
Are you feeling Christmassy? Do you usually go to live performances around Christmas time, do you make this a tradition? What will you do this year, when the doors are closed to so many...
Calling all researchers! What do you know about the British Library? Does it have anything relevant to your research? The British Library are running a series of webinars in the new year where you...
Do you collect vinyl? Do you get inspired by music record sleeves? Hazem Jamjourm is a Gulf History Audio Curator and Cataloguer at the British Library. He has blogged about how record sleeves have...
The Library have received some reports from students about an error message when accessing ebooks on the Library Catalogue. Unfortunately you may see this error message when accessing a book on our Catalogue if...
Edward Elgar’s, The Dream of Gerontius, is a setting of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s poem of the same name for voices and orchestra. It is an important work of Elgar which helped identify him...