AAU Library Blog

We have been working with WWD to resolve the problems we have had accessing their website.  WWD has fixed these issues.  You must use the WWD link on the library website to ensure that you have access to their website.
From the library website go to Find Resources -> Online Articles & Reference
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This Saturday (9/26) is the 10th Anniversary of The Expo for Independent Arts, to be held in the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Expo for Independent Arts is the Bay Area’s only grassroots connection fair for independent arts, music & culture. It is the premiere event for arts-audience [...]

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SFMOMA’s Rooftop Garden opened May 10th this year. It is a great place to view contemporary and modern sculpture. The rooftop was designed by Jensen Architects, a San Francisco-based architecture firm.
Academy of Art University (AAU) students, faculty, and staff are allowed free admission to SFMOMA’s permanent exhibitions with AAU ID. Special exhibitions may cost extra.

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The SFMOMA art museum in San Francisco has created a “visual browsing” tool called the ArtScope that allows users to wander through over 4,000 images from the museum’s collection. Use ArtScope to discover images by browsing or by searching for specific images using keywords such as artists’ names or titles of artworks. I keyword searched [...]

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The Museum of Craft and Folk Art offers free admission to their gallery every Tuesday in 2009. The museum is located at 51 Yerba Buena Lane at Mission between 3rd and 4th Streets.
The museum’s current exhibition is Inside/Outside: Artist Environments, which features “folk art environments” and “outsider” artist homes. The exhibition explores notions of how [...]

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Google recently digitized about 10 million images that were originally photographed for Life magazine. Many of the images found in this digital archive were never published. These images are high resolution and watermarked with “Life” on the lower, right-hand side of the images. To access the Life photo archive, visit the Website directly at http://images.google.com/hosted/life [...]

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Fashion majors studying designers and fashion illustration should check out the Fashion Design History Collection that features the American fashion illustrations of Claire McCardell (1905-1958), Norman Norell (1900-1972), and Mildred Orrick (1906-1994). McCardell was a great design innovator who created ready-to-wear fashions from jersey knits, denims, cotton, and wool pique. Her elegant designs were comfortable [...]

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Did you know that dressing as fruits and vegetables was a popular costume in the 19th century?  Neither did we, until we found an article about it on a new Library of Congress web site called the Wise Guide.  The site is designed to highlight the many LOC online collections and to encourage people to [...]

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One of our many popular books here at the library is “Beautiful Losers” featuring DIY art from punk, and skater subculture outside of NY.
From the book cover: Beautiful losers features hundreds of paintings, photographs, sculptures, collages, films, videos and installations – plus skateboards, album covers, stickers, clothing, handmade books, magazines, footwear and limited-edition toys – [...]

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Saturday night, September 13th, is the gallery opening for the Shepard Fairey exhibit entitled Shepard Fairey: Duality of Humanity.
(7pm-10pm, White Walls Gallery- 835 Larkin St, free.)
You may remember Fairey’s work from the Obama HOPE posters that circulated earlier this year or the famous OBEY series with Andre the Giant. An awesome contemporary artist and illustrator, [...]

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