UCSD Arts Libraries

The Extreme Makeover Continues!

As we in the Arts Libraries continue to move onward with our renovations…more things have moved! Music Books are now over in Current Periodicals, Newspapers & Microforms (aka CPNM). Some of our bound journals like NA (Architecture) and NK (Decorative Arts) are away at the annex but can be requested (paged) as needed. Our slide collection will stop circulating at the end of this quarter, but you can access all of our images using ArtStor. You’ll find a comment & suggestion box on the lower level where you can let us know any problems or concerns you may have as things shift around, or, you can always comment here, and we’ll post our response asap.

Lantern Slides From The Architecture Library at Notre Dame University

The architecture library at Notre Dame University is in the process of uploading scans of all of their lantern slides. On a Creative Commons license, on Flickr no less!

Check them out here.

Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra

March 10th, 11th and 14th you can see our very own Scott Paulson with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra performing composer Linda Kernohan’s Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra. Click here to listen to a little and to visit the composers site.
Buy your tickets now, it’s sure to sell out!

Crocheted Coral Reef

A friend forwarded this article to me from the New York Times on a group of people who have crocheted a giant 3D Great Barrier Reef to highlight the ongoing destruction caused by rising sea temperatures, pollution and global warming. It’s modeled after the AIDS quilt with many people all over the world contributing using a variety of techniques and materials.

One, “a geoscientist and a former mathematics teacher and sheep farmer in Australia who creates algorithms to calculate the length of yarn she’ll need before spinning and dying the wool from her own sheep” seemed very in tune with “Daina Taimina, a mathematics researcher at Cornell who had learned to crochet as a child in Latvia, (who) realized that by continually adding stitches in a precise repeating pattern she could create three-dimensional models of hyperbolic geometry. For the first time mathematicians could, as Ms. Wertheim said, “hold the theorems in their hands.” The exhibition is currently in Chicago but will be coming to New York and hopefully the West Coast soon.

Link to the Exhibition Site

Secret Museum On The Moon’s Surface

From a NYT article from November of 1969 about the tiny museum smuggled to the srface of the moon on the landing of Apollo 12 (!)…
“…according to Frosty Myers, the artist who initiated the project, the Moon Museum was secretly installed on a hatch on a leg of the Intrepid landing module with the help of an unnamed engineer at the Grumman Corporation after attempts to move the project forward through NASA’s official channels were unsuccessful.

According to the Times, the artworks are, clockwise from the top center: Rauschenberg’s wavy line; Novros’ black square bisected by thin white lines [in 1969, Novros also created the incredibly rich, minimalist fresco on the second floor of Judd’s 101 Spring St]; a computer-generated drawing by Myers; a geometric mouse by Oldenburg, “the subject of a sculpture in his current show at the Museum of Modern Art” [a sculpture which is in MoMA’s permanent collection, btw]; and a template pattern by Chamberlain, “similar to one he used to produce paintings done with automobile lacquer.” Warhol’s contribution, which is obscured by the thumb above, is described as “a calligraphic squiggle made up of the initials of his signature.”

Via BoingBoing