! ARLIS/New York News

Volume 13:Number 4 November 1992

HOLIDAY PARTY

Thursday 3 December 1992

The lIuseum of Modern Art Library

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Kick off the 1992 holiday season by joining your colleagues for ARLIS/New York's Annual Party being held this year at The Museum of Modern Art Library on Thursday the 3rd of December. As in past years, we are inviting our members to display their culinary talents by contributing a favorite holiday dish to the party. It may be sweet or savory, exotic or simple, international or local. ARLIS/NewYork will provide the drinks as well as small plates, forks and napkins.

This gathering will give our members the opportunity to meet and greet friends while admiring the magnificent illuminated skyline of midtown Manhattan from the Library's Reading Room on the 6th floor of the Museum Offices. Celebrants will be welcome to tour the MaMA Library during the party. In addition, members may wish to take advantage of the Museum's Thursday night "pay what you wish" policy from 5:00 to 9:00 in order to view:

The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy New Photography 8 The Mara Convention Hall International Design eo_petition Behind the Shield. Warner Brothers and the studio 5ystem selections froa the Collection

Due, however, to the phenomenal popularity of Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, admission to that exhibition will need to be arranged in advance. Tickets for ARLIS/New York members are available for $5.50 and must be secured in advance for a specific time on 3 December. Please contact Janis Ekdahl (212-708-9432) by Noveaber 20 if you want a ticket. (Everyone who signed up for Matisse tickets during, or after, the September business meeting at the Frick Art Reference Library has been asked to confirm their commitment.)

Plan to join us on 3 DeceJOber with your special "holiday food" for this ARLIS/New York party which promises all the best of midtown New York; wonderful food and drink, congenial friends, and spectacular seasonal lights and decorations.

Janis Ekdahl, The Museum of Modern Art Library NEW BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED!

Hearty congratulations to our new look forward to seeing you on ARLIS/NY Executive Board Members: December 3 at the potluck holiday party at The Museum of Modern Art Hikmet Dogu: Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Library. Peter Blank: Secretary Debbie Kempe: Member-at-Large Katie Keller Chair, ARLIS/NY They join Katie Keller, Janis Ekdahl, Celine Palatsky and Alexandra de Luise to form the 1993 Executive Board. FROM THE EDITOR The leadership for 1993, a talented and dedicated group, will greatly As the holidays approach and ARLIS/NY enhance the Chapter. ARLIS/NY has prepares for festivities and fun, I'd much to look forward to in 1993! like to thank James Monteith for his enterprising work in the past two years as Advertising Manager. James established and set up this position FROM THE CHAIR very diligently. Now he's turned this position over to Judy Hello! I'd like to congratulate and Connorton's capable hands! With this thank a number of people. First of issue, Judy assumes full Qll, congratulations and welcome to responsibility as advertising our new board members: Hikmet Dogu manager. Congratulations, Judy! (Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect), Peter Blank (Secretary) and Debbie Kempe (Member- A lot of good news is included in at-Large) • I'm looking forward to this issue. Read about the working with them. successful tour to the Heights (p. 2); the AAT meeting (p. 3); the new Thanks to the ARLIS/NY 1992 board members (on this page); and the Nominating Committee: Suzanna Simor annual conference in San Francisco (Chair), Daniel Starr and Trevor (p. 5). As you can see, the Chapter Hadley. They did an excellent job is alive and well! See you at the and put together an exceptional slate holiday party at MoMA! of candidates this year. Eumie Imm, Editor I'd also like to thank Linda ARLIS!NY News Seckelson and Janis Ekdahl for planning and hosting the AAT program held on October 23 at The Museum of Modern Art. HERITAGE ON THE HEIGHTS

The Executive Board is to be applauded for all their hard work ARLIS!NY TOUR, October 17, 1992 this year: Linda Seckelson, Janis Ekdahl, Ann Benton, Celine Palatsky, Michael Henry Adams, President of the Max Marmor and Alexandra de Luise. A Upper Manhattan Society for progr7ss special thank you goes to Ross Day, Through Preservation, was our gu~de chair of the Membership Committee. for the day-long tour of the proposed Thanks also goes to Eumie Imm for her Audubon Park Historic District. He excellent work on the newsletter; began at the Morris-Jumel Mansion at Julie Mellby and Carol Rusk for the Jumel Terrace and West 160th street current exhibitions columns; James with a wide-ranging summary of the Monteith and Judy Connorton for their social and historical background of work as advertising managers; and all the area: the Morrises, the newsletter contributors for the past Knickerbocker elite, the settlement year. of Manhattan, Madame Jumel, urban development and subdivision, and the Finally, thank you all for making Burr-Hamilton duel. After touring 1992 a great year for the chapter. I the mansion and partaking of apple cider we set out at a pace to match roads and replaced sidewalks, and the the brisk fall day. politics behind the imminent destruction of the Audubon Ballroom Mr. Adams brought the area to life, by Columbia university in order to not only with perceptive observation develop a for-profit biotechnology and description of the buildings, laboratory. (Mr. Adams spoke about many of which appear similar--the how the proposed compromise would similarity of scale of the buildings result in the worst possible facade- being one of the strengths of the ism and his sense of betrayal by area--but also with his ability to political leaders and by Spike Lee, get into the buildings, not only who, though profiting by his movie their histories, both architectural about Malcolm X, is not doing and sociological, but also literally. anything to save the building where Entering the lobbies of buildings in Malcolm X was assassinated.) an area where security is paramount, and most of which no longer have Those of us who missed Mr. Adams' s doormen, can be a feat in itself. Harlem tour last year realized that His efforts rewarded us with glimpses we had missed a great opportunity, of an elegant past, lost or for he is a dedicated, passionate, endangered by absentee landlords. We articulate preservationist. All of happened upon a resident unofficial us agreed that we should continue our historian in the lobbies of most series of ARLIS!New York tours with buildings, someone who would describe him. how things used to be and outline the current problems, from security to Daniel Starr rent strikes. Our chance encounters in these lobbies were a highlight of the tour, and even resulted in a spontaneous invitation to visit an WHITHER THE AAT? apartment to see the views and the floor plans. This three-hour symposium, organized We covered the obscure as well as the by Linda Seckelson, attracted about famous: Audubon Ballroom and Theatre, 30 of our members and colleagues to Audubon Terrace with its array of The Museum of Modern Art on Friday cultural institutions, and the October 23 to explore the past, Trinity Church Cemetery, as well as present and future of the Art and Bertram Goodhue's Church of the Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). Toni Intercession, where, again, we found Petersen, director of the AAT, opened a hidden gem: a memorial to the the afternoon by trying to answer the architect that included bas-relief question of WHY art librarians have depictions of all of his major been reluctant to adopt the AAT while buildings. visual resource curators, archivists and art collection managers have The final stop was a dark, decayed lobby in another of the formerly embraced the system so eagerly. elegant apartment buildings on Among the answers she offered were economic limitations, unfamiliarity Riverside Drive, but this stop with the thesaurus concept, and a included an invitation to an eleventh declining proficiency in the "art of floor apartment overlooking the subject analysis." Given that the Hudson: we entered in darkness but overwhelming bulk of most libraries' saw a great light. Our hostesses records exist with Library of offered us tea as well as a tour of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), their home, and we were pleased to be WHAT DOES THE AAT SEE AS ITS FUTURE? able to relax in comfort and enjoy the play of the light coming through Linking AAT terms to LCSH. the windows and the views, while Mr. Since its inception, AAT has Adams and our hostesses discussed "tracked" all its terms to LCSH some of the problems in the area and headings and has utilized MARC format their efforts to overcome them. We for its records in the hope that, got a glimpse behind the workings of some day, libraries will be able to their community board, of the globally link their existing LCSH problems presented by federal headings to AAT terms. Petersen regulations when the city repaved optimistically reported that several key agencies which govern headings of usage. The AAT also hopes to (including LCSH, MeSH, LC Descriptive begin sponsoring "AAT User Group" Terms for Graphic Materials, Genre meetings at ARLIS and other Terms & Thesaurus for Rare Books and professional meetings. Special Collections, Moving Image Materials Genre terms, and AAT) met Multi-lingual terminology. A recently to begin discussing ways project is underway with a few extant they could coordinate their efforts. European databases (most actively in As an aside, Petersen noted that the France and Italy) to develop a Library of Congress now accepts AAT relational interface with AAT as a source for subject headings. terminology. In addition Petersen reported that the electronic version The AAT being offered on in of the AAT has a "UK-alt" command electronic format. In an effort to which will display the British facilitate usage of the Thesaurus, spelling of any term with a single Oxford University Press has just stroke. issued a PC-based electronic version of the AAT. Susanne Warren, User The respondents, Pat Barnett and Services Coordinator of the AAT, Kathe Chipman, as well as those in demonstrated this new format by attendance grappled with these issues typing in a desired term, then and several others. Discussion quickly identifying its place in the ranged from the progress being made hierarchy and speedily retrieving its toward indexing parts of the 654 and scope notes. Designed to be user- 655 subject fields to the impact of friendly by the Getty Art History keyword searching on subject Information Program, the diskettes searching. A final provocative cost $125 (half the cost of the two debate on the feasibility of paper volumes plus supplement) and utilizing multiple subject authority will run on DOS-driven computers. At lists was left unresolved. present there is not a Macintosh version of the AAT although many The enthusiasm and attention which requests have been received. all participants brought to this symposium affirmed the importance of Exactly how effectively this tool ARLIS/New York continuing to sponsor will interface with on-line public focused "content" meetings to enhance access catalogs (OPACs) has yet to be our professional knowledge and to determined. It seems that OPAC feed our intellectual curiosity. vendors are currently unable to mount a faceted thesaurus such as the AAT. Janis Ekdahl However the audience enthusiastically suggested that ARLIS/NA, or perhaps the Museum OPAC Advisory Group which has formed within ARLIS, begin to EXECUTIVE BOARD HIGHLIGHTS bring pressure on OPAC vendors. ARLIS/NY Executive Board Meeting Petersen reported that the National Thursday, 18 June 1992 Art Library of Britain at the The Museum of Modern Art Library Victoria and Albert Museum has "taken the plunge" by adopting the AAT for Attending: Ann Benton, Janis Ekdahl, its subject terms. Dynix, who will Katie Keller, Alexandra de Luise, Max provide the V&A's OPAC, has agreed to Marmor, celine Palatsky, Linda work with the Library in its Seckelson application of the AAT. Seckelson reported on the proposed Updated guide to applications AAT program. She had confirmed that and protocol. The AAT is planning to either Suzanne Warren or Toni issue a Users Directory next year to Petersen would be pleased to make a answer many of the needs expressed by presentation to the chapter. The respondents to a recent AAT survey. half-day session would focus on It will provide a guide to AAT use, an introduction to subject indexing future applications of AAT. Pat Barnett has also expressed interest and analysis, and chapters on specific applications of the AAT in the proposed program. (see which will contain numerous examples preceding article) OTHER ACTIVITIES

Strong Museul, Rochester, NY SyrrposiLlTl and exhibition: EBSCO is serials Altered--Alcohol and other drugs in America 11/13-14 service land morel Rutgers University Preservation Uorkshop Series: for libraries. 11/12 Preserving Oversize Paper Items EBSCO believes in providing the best in serials 11/20 cermerctet library service ... and a lot more ... to our library Binding from a Preservation customers. From on-time order placement and Perspective efficient claiming methods to automated library system interfaces to valuable CD-ROM products like Cooper-Hewi tt THE SERIALS DIRECTORY. MAGAZINE ARTICLE Day ~ithout Art Program: SUMMARIES and ACADEMIC ABSTRACTS. To learn 12/1 Mapping the epidemic: AIDS more, contact us today. Let us show you what we in NY mean when we say EBSCO is: serials service land more) for libraries. Queens Public library: Rethinking History, '492~1992 11/7 Hans Koning and Howard Zinn (2 pn) I:Im!RSUBSCRIPTION SERVICES MAAM/NEMA C<:nference (Wednesday 2 pm session) I 7-1 9 Washington Street Archives and Registration Tenafly, NJ 07670-2084 11/11 Albany, NY-Ornni Hotel 120' J 569-2500 New York (2' 21695-3715 FAX (2011 569-0586 We would like to concentrate on sped at events, conferences, and little-known exhibitions or projects involving ARLIS members. Please send announcements or suggestions to Carol Rusk, The Brooklyn MuseLlT1, 200 Eastern Parkway. Brooklyn, NY 11238

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-.-- Other ideas for possible programs Management of Visual Resources; were forwarded. Keller and Palatsky Digital Photography; Libraries in the both exhibited interest in a talk to Former Eastern Bloc; West Coast be given by Carol Mandel of Columbia Decorative Arts; New Sound University on technical services. Technologies in Film & Video; Ekdahl was interested in a meeting Collecting Video; Researching Gay & with visual resources librarians. Lesbian Artists; Pacific Rim Art Ekdahl reported that, as a chapter, Scholarship; Downsizing in the 90s; we will not apply to ARLIS/NA to fund Computer Labs in Art Libraries; and a program. Seckelson will continue New Directions in Subject Analysis. to work out the details for an AAT program. A pre-registration fee of $80 for members (including Music Library DeLuise read from the Nominating Association and SLA members) and $100 Committee report presenting the slate for non-members includes admission to for 1992 which is as follows: Vice- all sessions and business meetings, Chair/Chair-Elect: Hikmet Dogu, as well as to the Convocation and Pedro Figueredo; Secretary: Peter reception at the De Young Museum. Blank, Dohery Dorszynski, Katherine Tours and workshops are available at Teel; Member-at-Large: Greta Earnest, additional fees. Hotel rates will be Deborah Kempe, Jenni Rodda. $lOO/single and $125/double. To receive a program and registration Keller reported for Imm that James packet, contact: Monteith has earned $600-700 for the newsletter. Ekdahl suggested that we Pam Parry, Executive Director acknowledge him at the Fall business ARLIS/NA 1993 Conference meeting. 3900 East Timrod St. Tucson, AZ 85711 No new business. tel. 602-881-8479 fax 602-322-6778. Submitted by Ann Benton, Secretary, ARLIS/NY

ARLIS/NA RESEARCH COMMITTEE INITIATES NEW ACTIVITIES CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME! ARLIS/NA ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN All ARLIS/NA members are invited to SAN FRANCISCO share information about their research in progress. The recently Thursday, January 28-Wednesday, formed Research Committee of ARLIS/NA February 3, 1993 at The Westin St. is charged with stimulating and Francis, Union Square reporting members' research in areas of art documentation and related ARLIS/NA's 21st Annual Conference fields. To achieve these goals the will have as its theme "Moving Into Research Committee is sponsoring the the 21st century" and will offer a "Research Notes" column which will wide variety of sessions and meetings appear biannually in ARLIS!NA Update. of interest to librarians of art, This is your opportunity to publicize design, museum, slide, AV, and your research efforts and obtain architectural collections. Workshops valuable assistance from your will be offered on searching art colleagues in the form of research databases, image databases, Internet leads, information on little-known training, and subject analysis. An archives, tips on software and Exhibits Hall will feature close to hardware, suggestions on methodology, 100 vendors. For those interested in help with arcane citations, etc. exploring the Bay region, a wide variety of tours of the region's art In about 50-75 words tell us about and architecture, galleries, and your research: title, brief wineries will be offered. description, methodology employed, hardware and software used, grants Some of the topics include: Museum received, etc. or send us your "notes Library OPACS; Preservation of Book and queries" related to your and Photograph Collections; Online research. No note or query is too -

modest 1 Thesis topics in art art bibliographer, whose support of history, ongoing personal research in and dedication to ARLIS/NA was an the arts, videodisc projects, inspiration to her colleagues and beginning databases, or any other students. topics in arts librarianship or visual resources curatorship are WIN: $200 cash; $300 travel welcome. Please be specific as to reimbursement to attend the ARLIS/NA your research focus, project goals, annual conference in San Francisco; or information needs, and include a I-year membership in ARLIS/NA; and contact FAX number, address, etc. publication of your abstract, and possibly your paper, in Art One source of funding available to Documentation. members is the ARLIS/NA Research Fund. This fund is overseen by the Entries must be received no later Research Committee and will provide than December 1, 1992. Please grants up to a maximum of $1000 for request further information from: project research, publication or dissemination of research for Kathryn Vaughn, Chair applicants in the area of art Gerd Muehsarn Committee documentation. All members are Department of Art invited to apply. The annual Hobart and William Smith Colleges deadline for applications is January Geneva, NY 14456 5. 315-781-3483 Fax: 315-781-3560 For copies of the Research Fund guidelines and application form, or to submit information for inclusion in Update concerning research in LOOKING FOR JOBS? progress, please contact the Research Committee chair:

Mary Williamson PART-TIME CATALOGER: Bard Graduate Scott Library Center for Studies in the Decorative York University Arts. Qualifications: familiarity North York, Ontario M3J lP3 with RLIN, art background, original Canada and copy cataloging experience, Tel. 416-736-2100 ext. 33526 knowledge of Eastern European Bitnet: [email protected] languages helpful. Salary FAX: 416-736-5838 negotiable. Possibility of becoming a full-time position. Call Bobbie You may also obtain information from Xuereb or Steve Sinon for further committee members: information: 212-875-1158. Peter Blank, Robert Goldwater Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art; ART AND ARCHITECTURE LIBRARIAN: Janis Ekdahl, The Museum of Modern Pratt Institute. Librarian for Art Library; and Linda McRae, Slide department with large book Library, University of South Florida collection, online catalog, slide and picture files. Primary responsibilites include: public service, collection development, ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS: bibliographic instruction and YOUR CHANCE TO WIN training, and supervision of staff. THE 1.992 Academic background in art and or GERD MUEHSAM AWARD architecture required. Experience including online searching skills Sponsored by ARLIS/NA, the Gerd desirable. Salary range $28,000- Muehsam Award is given annually to 31,000. Salaries commensurate with recognize excellence in a graduate qualification. Excellent benefits paper on a topic relevant to art include TIAA/CREF. Liberal vacation librarianship or visual resources and tuition remission. Forward curatorship. This award was resumes to: pean of Libraries, Pratt established to honor the memory of Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave., Gerd Muehsam (1913-1979), Brooklyn, NY 11205. AA/EOE. distinguished scholar, teacher, and CURRENT EXHIBITIONS Compiled by Carol Rusk

Alternative Museun Artist as ICP MidtOl«l Robert Lyons thru 1/1/93 Catylyst; Y. David Chung Egyptian Time thru 11/29; installation on Korean and Yousuf Karsh; Ernst Haas thru New York Ptblic library/42nd African-American Immigrant 1/24/93; Small Town Stories: Street New Worlds. Ancient Experience 11/21-2/7/93 Photos from the Missouri Photo Texts: The Cultural Impact of ~orkshops 12/4-1/24/93 an Encounter; Mapping the New American Craft Museun Nancy World: Native Americans in Crow: Work in Transision; John ICP Uptown Hiroj i Kubota; Prints and Photographs thru McQueen: the Language of Recent Acquistions 11/15- 1/9/93 Containment 11/19-3/28/93 1/31/93 Newhouse Center for Asia Society Southeast Asian Isaau Noguchi Garden Museua COntemporary Art/Snug Harbor Textiles from Austral ia thru opens Wednesdays and Saturdays Lo Spir ito 1/17/93 11·6 p.m., April thru November D'ltalia/Contemporary ItaLian Artist thru January Bronx Museun The schooL of the Jewish Museum Convivencia: South: El Tatler Torres-Garcia Jews, Muslims and Christians in Pierpont-Morgan Library Fra and Its Legacy; Candida Medieval Spain 9/20-12/20 Bartolommeo: Renaissance Alvarez; State Controlled thru Florence thru 11/29; 1/10/93; Portraits of 12 Lower Manhattan Cultural Presidential Races from Contemporary Artists 11/12- COUlCil REPOhistory: The Lower Washington to Roosevelt thru 2/4/93 Manhattan Sign Project thru 11/22 12/27 Brooklyn Museun Meg Webster: Queens College Art tenter Pier Running thru 1/3/93; Frederic Metropol itan Nuselllll of Art Paoto Pasol ini retrospective Bazi lle: Prophet of Magritte thru 11/22; Jusepe de 11/4-12/4; Lois Polansky Impressionism 11/12- ; Max Ribera thru 11/29; Leo Bookworks 11/2-30 veber- 11/13-1/10/93; Red Rubenfien Photos thru 1/3/93; Grooms: Dame of the Narrows Century of Tung Ch "i -ch lang Queens Museua Fragi le 11/6 thru 1/10/93; Alexander Jackson Ecologies thru 11/29; Rodney Davis, American Architect thru Alan Greenblat 12/7-2/28/93 Cooper-Hewi tt Museun The Power 1/24/93; Portraits of American of Maps thru 3/7/93 Artists in the Met Collection Sch~rg Center for Research thru 1/17/93; Masterworks from in Black Culture The African Dia Center for the Arts the Nusee des Beaux-Ar t s and Presence in the Americas thru Josephs Beuys thru 4/93; Roger Italian Renaissance Maiol ica 1/24/93 Goger thru 6/93; Dan Graham and Glass opening in late Oct. extended Sol

Henry Street Settlement Linda National Museua of the AErican Wave HilL John Huddleston thru Gilbert-Schneider: Mexico; Indian Pathways of Tradition: 12/5 Honor the Ancestors thru 11/30; Indian Insights into Indian Hameplace thru 12/27; Scott ~orlds 11/15·1/24/93 Whitney Mus~ of American Art Gulshan 12/4-1/10/93 Figurative \Jorks from the New Museul of ContelllPOraryArt Permanent col lection thru Millwood Art Muse..- Faculty The Spatial Drive; 11/29; Alfonso Ossorio Drawings Exhibition 11/20-12/31; FluxAttitudes thru 1/3/93 thru 11/29; Jan-Michel Basquist Qui n c e n ten a r y : thru 2114/93; Agnes Martin Recollections/Resistance/Recon New York Historical SOCiety 11/6-1/31/93 structions 1/15-2/26/93 Lower Manhattan Sign Project ------

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