Category: exhibits

  • Last Week for Exhibit: The Globe/Global in Shakespeare’s Time

    Posted on Jan 21st

    This coming week is the last one for the current exhibit in Special Collections, entitled “The Globe/Global in Shakespeare’s Time.” We hope […]

  • Last Few Days to See the First Folio at Chazen Museum of Art

    Posted on Dec 8th

    We want to urge you to take advantage of the last few days of the exhibition of Shakespeare’s First Folio at the […]

  • Sit Down With a Book Printed in 1623

    Posted on Nov 22nd

    Have you seen the First Folio on display at the Chazen Museum of Art or the exhibit on “The Globe/Global in Shakespeare’s Time” […]

  • Second, Third, and Fourth Folios of Shakespeare’s Plays

    Posted on Nov 2nd

    Once you’ve seen the First Folio exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art (opening on November 3 as part of Shakespeare in […]

  • More of Triangles & Squares: From the Black Mesa Press

    Posted on Mar 27th

    Though not included in our current exhibit “Shapes in Books: Triangles, Squares, Circles,” The limits by Anita Barrows, as published by Black […]

  • New Exhibit on Triangles, Squares, and Circles

    Posted on Dec 5th

    Please visit Special Collections for our latest exhibit, “Shapes in Books: Triangles, Circles, Squares.” It features, not surprisingly, rare books on geometry, […]

  • Bittern Sightings

    Posted on Nov 4th

    Inspired by Carrie Roy’s piece entitled “Bittern 70,” part of an art installation currently on view in the first floor lobby of […]

  • Lunar Eclipses as Viewed from Special Collections

    Posted on Sep 27th

    Tonight’s lunar eclipse, which coincides with what is known as a harvest moon, prompts us to offer several examples of depictions of lunar eclipses […]

  • Yeats’ “Green Helmet”

    Posted on Sep 12th

    The current exhibit in Special Collections, entitled “Green Green — It’s Green They Say,” has heightened our awareness of both references to the color green […]

  • Green Green — It’s Green, They Say

    Posted on Aug 26th

    In celebration of the lush landscapes of summer, and with a nod to the first track of the The New Christy Minstrel’s […]

  • Maps!

    Posted on May 13th

    In honor of this week’s National Geographic Bee, we invite you to visit the current exhibit in Special Collections — “Mapmaking: Sources […]

  • Snow Supplement

    Posted on Dec 23rd

    Since we in Madison are not destined to have much if any snow this week, enjoying instead temperatures in the upper 30s […]