Bridwell Art Library

Construction Update Week 6: Framing is in progress!

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We sometimes like basketball here at the Art Library. So we want to share the latest Art But Make It Sports post featuring the cast Laocoön and his sons.

You can find more about Laocoön and His Sons here in the library in books like
The Art Book
2017 First American edition.
New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2017.

Art Library
Book Stacks
N5300 .B93 2017

ID: Against a blue background, is two side by side photos of sports photography ana sculpture.

New Art books are waiting to be put on the shelf!

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Based on our shelving cart, here's what people are reading this summer.

ID: A color photo of colorful art books on a book cart.

Happy Monday Cards! Check out another book from our Artists' Books

Fierce P***y.
2026
Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, 2026.

Art Library
Rare Books Collection - Artists’ Books
N7433.35.U6 F54 2026

From the publisher, Primary Information- "This eponymously titled publication by fierce p***y brings together thirty-nine of the legendary art collective's posters, from works made in the urgent early days of the AIDS crisis to present-day advocacy for Q***r and Trans rights. In keeping with fierce p***y's activism in public spaces, the publication is designed to allow readers to tear out any of the posters to share, wheatpaste, scan, photocopy, and distribute or to easily open the book to any page to hang it on a wall. Combining calls for political and social action, proud reclamations of derogatory language, and pointed questions, the posters in fierce p***y address pressing sociopolitical issues in the group's distinctive voice."

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Construction Update Week 5: New radiator insulation has been installed, and new concrete has been poured.

ID: A color photo of a wall of windows under construction.

We found a duplicate piece to our completed puzzle. There is a puzzle out there missing this very piece.

ID: A color photo of a hand holding a single puzzle piece.

Hot new books have entered Bridwell Art Library! Stop by and check them out.

ID: A color photo of colorful art book covers displayed on a bookcase.

Happy Tuesday Cards! Enjoy this photo of Schneider Hall. We are sure you miss it!

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From our Zine Collection
Not Yet / Always Been: an archive of Q***r Louisville emerges from the classroom and the archives. The exhibition is a product of collaborative discussions and debates that a mixed graduate and undergraduate seminar provides. It showcases the material stuff of the Williams-Nichols Collection, yet it also puts on display the affective and imaginative—our creative processes of discovering hope and belonging in the archive.

ID: A color photo of a black and white zine cover.