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Libraries, museums and bookstores: Stuart Hall Library

Opening Hours

Tuesday – Friday,
10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm

How to get there?

INIVIA
Rivington Place,
London EC2A 3BA

The closest station is Pimlico

About the Stuart Hall Library

The Stuart Hall Library is part of Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Art. Iniva was founded in 1994 with a remit to address an imbalance in the way culturally diverse artists and curators were being represented in the UK. They collaborate with artists, curators, researchers and cultural producers to challenge conventional notions of diversity and difference. They work predominantly with British-born and British-based visual artists of African and Asian descent. Challenging notions of difference and diversity, Iniva is dedicated to looking at the social and political impact of globalisation in visual arts through the lens of race, class and gender.

The library focuses on British, European and American contemporary art by artists predominantly with an African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American, South Asian, East Asian, Oceanic and Latin American heritage. It has a collection of over 10,000 holdings including a multi-media collection comprising books, monographs, periodicals, slides, DVDs, CDs, film and video, photographs and sound recordings.

Accessing the library

Library membership is free and everyone is welcome. To register, please fill in this form. It is a reference-only library so you can't take any books out. 

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