Monthly Archives: February 2012

Find images licensed for re-use

This new LondonMet Library Services  Prezi explores sources of shared images where creators have licensed their photographs, video or other media to be copied and re-used under certain conditions. The presentation includes links to tools designed for quick and neat … Continue reading

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Read about LondonMet academics 5: Bob & Roberta Smith

Patrick Brill is a lecturer in the Sir John Cass Department of Art Media & Design and  makes art under the invented personae of Bob and Roberta Smith. B&R have exhibited worldwide, are Turner Prize-shortlisted, created a Christmas tree for … Continue reading

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John Berger

John Berger’s seminal 1972 book ‘Ways of Seeing’ will be featured on Radio 4′s Archive on 4 series. Tim Marlow discusses how the book ,  a perennial art-school text, shook up the art world. The episode is entitled The Politics … Continue reading

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Library exhibition:Jade Weir-Reid

Photographs of African Fashion Week London by a LondonMet Graphic Design student who graduated last year. Jade Weir-Reid’s photographs were used to illustrate the African Fashion week brochure. Traditional African textiles and objects combined with Jades’ photographs make an interesting  … Continue reading

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Exhibition: Ava De La Flor

Chanel Generation Kill: Re-Interpreted & Re-Mastered 30 January – 17 February 2012 Commercial Road Library An examination of  fashion addiction and brand worship. Re-imagined  packaging and marketing campaigns. See and read more….

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Tatlin’s Tower + Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture

Vladimir Tatlin’s unrealised monument to the Third International a scaled re-recreation by Jeremy Dixon in Annenberg Courtyard at the Royal Academy. Also showing Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination 4 February – 17 June RA Includes striking buildings of English … Continue reading

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New Book: On Jewelley

On jewellery: a compendium of international contemporary art jewellery by Liesbeth den Besten, 2011.  Find it on the Library catalogue This is a “synopsis of what art jewellery is or can be, that aims to disclose its idiosyncrasies, language and … Continue reading

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Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence Conference “call for papers”

Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to draw your attention to the 9th AHRA Conference Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, 15-17th November 2012. Keynote speakers include … Continue reading

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Photo Histories: e-journal

Photo Histories: The Photographers’ History of Photography is a freely accessible online journal. Image-rich and well-researched it includes slideshows, accounts and interviews with some of the most talented practitioners of the medium. If you are a photographer on the look-out … Continue reading

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National Libraries Day 4th February

This Saturday, 4th February 2012 is National Libraries Day. Visit the website to find events in your area; for example at the excellent  Idea Store in Whitechapel,  Limehouse Books’ debut novelists Sophia Blackwell, North Morgan and Bobby Nayyar will be … Continue reading

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