ARLIS/NY

October 23–26 2008

In collaboration with Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair (http://www.nyartbookfair.com), the Art Libraries Society of New York (ARLIS/NY) announces a conference on contemporary artists' books.

The program will include speakers, panels, artists' presentations, institutional tours, and receptions. The conference focuses on recent developments in artists' books, a period of increasing diversity in the field. The conference will present a rare opportunity to explore the contemporary scene, promising a thought-provoking opportunity for discourse among scholars, collectors, artists, and librarians.

Conference venues include the New York Public Library, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, and the NY Art Book Fair at Phillips de Pury.

http://www.arlisny.org/cabc (updated as plans develop).
General questions: abconference@gmail.com

Exhibition Hall at the 36th Annual ARLIS/NA Conference in Denver, CO, May 1-5, 2008.

See ARLIS/NY on Flickr for more photos from the conference.

May 2008

Costume of the Late Middle Ages
A Lecture Series by Anne Van Buren

Art historian Anne Van Buren will deliver three illustrated talks sponsored by the Morgan's prestigious Franklin Jasper Walls Lecture Fund. These lectures are the result of more than twenty-five years of research on medieval illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and panel painting. Van Buren's study is the subject of forthcoming Morgan exhibition and publication.

Recent Acquisitions
Elizabeth Delson Collection – Sidney Delson, the widower of the artist, donated a collection of thirty-three prints of Long Island artist and New Jersey native, Elizabeth Delson (1925-2005). The collection also includes lists outlining the prints given, biographical information and scans of her notebooks that describe each print and its processes.

May 14, 2008

ARLIS/NY and SAH/NY invite their members, friends, and guests to a lecture of, tour on, and film about architect Steven Holl’s critically acclaimed extension to Pratt Institute’s Higgins Hall, which houses its School of Architecture. The translucent architectural design links two nineteenth-century buildings, one of which is the rundbogenstil former Adelphi Academy. The design is one of only two built works by Steven Holl in New York City.