Fashion and Textile Museum - Bill Gibbs exhibition

http://www.ftmlondon.org/

I have n't been to this Exhibition but I did read a review and it sounded very intriguing.

ARLIS Creative Industries Day

The Art Libraries Society recently help a day focusing on the creative industries. Below are some useful website on the business aspect.

http://www.bl.uk/bipc/index.html
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/index.html.
www.businesslink.gov.uk
www.jobsinsight.co.uk
www.statisticsinsight.co.uk
www.publishingbirmingham.com
www.birminghammusic.com

And the websites below focus on materials

http://materialstories.com/
http://www.ecolect.net/
http://www.mutr.co.uk/
http://www.modulor.info/
http://www.modelshop.co.uk/
http://www.materialconnexion.com/
http://www.iom3.org/
http://amf.globalwatchonline.com/epicentric_portal/site/AMF/menuitem.06688dadabd92be81006a0108380e1a0/?mode=0

Chelsea College of Art and Tate Libraries

I recently visited the Chelsea College of Art and Design library and the Tate Library. They are both part of SCONUL ACCESS - although the Tate only allows staff and PHDs to borrow. However, any member of the public can register as reader and have reference access.

Both libraries have amazing collections and are happy to have our students visit. I would always advise a phone call first since most materials have to be retrieved from storage.

Mary Quant lecture

These lectures are usually very popular!

http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/lectures_talks_tours/friday_talks/index.html

Mary Quant - Inspired By
Friday 23 January
Lecture Theatre
19.00-20.00
Described as "the High Priestess of Sixties Fashion", Mary Quant was one of the most influential figures in Swinging London. She is famed for her distinctive Op and Pop-Art patterns and for popularising Sixties classics like the mini-skirt, hot pants, paint-box make-up and plastic macs. She discusses the highpoints of her career.

£8, £6 concessions
This talk will be BSL interpreted
Book online or call +44 (0)20 7942 2211

Mark Rothko Exhibition Tate Modern

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/markrothko/default.shtm

Tate Modern presents an exhibition by one of the world’s most famous and best-loved artists, Mark Rothko. This is the first significant exhibition of his work to be held in the UK for over 20 years.
Tate Modern's iconic 'Rothko Room' works are reunited for the first time with works from Japan. The Seagram Murals were originally commissioned for The Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building New York.
Rothko’s iconic paintings, composed of luminous, soft-edged rectangles saturated with colour, are among the most enduring and mysterious created by an artist in modern times. In the exhibition his paintings glow meditatively from the walls in deep dark reds, oranges, maroons, browns, blacks, and greys.
The exhibition will also focus on other work in series, such as the Black-Form paintings, his large-scale Brown and Grey works on paper, and his last series of Black on Grey paintings, created in the final decade of his life from 1958-1970.

National Art Library

http://www.vam.ac.uk/nal/
I recently visited the National Art Library at the V&A and I will be encouraging our students to go there.

The National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a majorpublic reference library. Its strength lies in the range and depth of its holdings of documentary material concerning the fine and decorativearts of many countries and periods. It is also the curatorial departmentfor the art, craft and design of thebook, details of which can be found in the Prints & Books collection.

It is such a stunning library with unique resources - including many databases which our students can use. They even offer user education sessions on Tuesday.

Whitecube Exhibition

http://www.whitecube.com/mailouts/?id=52