In Autumn 2027 the British Library will present Conquest: The Making of Norman England, the first…
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A major exhibition exploring the history of poverty and housing in London opens today at University…
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You Are Here, Ada Limón’s signature project as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, will launch during National Poetry Month in April with a celebration at the Library of Congress and will continue throughout the year with installations of poetry as public art in national…
The volume’s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked. The book has been in the collections of Harvard Library since 1934, initially…
Highlights from Swann Galleries' April 11 Fine Books auction featuring a special section of books from New York theater critic and dramaturge Michael Feingold’s estate including: * * Michael Feingold, After
Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection will explore the area where book-like objects and folk art intersect. San Francisco collector Ian Berke (1940 - 2024) began collecting these intriguing artifacts during a chance encounter at an antique show in New England…
Heroes: The British invasion of American comics opens at the Cartoon Museum in London next month with a look at how British artists and writers invaded America and made their mark on iconic superheroes.
Nearly 900 lots are featured in RR Auction's upcoming Apil Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale, featuring nearly 900 lots of items from the 19th and 20th centuries.Highlights include two Abraham Lincoln items. The first is a rare Lincoln check dated February 16, 1859, payable to Johnson &…
Sarah Gordon’s new play Underdog: The Other Other Brontë is an irreverent retelling of the lives and legend of English literature’s famed Brontë sisters which opens tonight at the National Theatre's Dorfman theatre in London.
The lineup at the famous 1969 Altamont Festival included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Santana, but the act most closely associated with Altamont is the Rolling Stones. The rarest piece of historic memorabilia tied to this moment is the event poster…
Type Punch Matrix will feature more than two dozen items from the life and career of Sylvia Plath at the 64th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair, April 4 - 7 at the Park Avenue Armory.
At Artcurial on Tuesday, March 26, 142 lots of Livres & Manuscrits, including Hans Bellmer's Les Jeux de la poupée (1949) with illustrations by Paul Éluard (€35,000–40,000); Jacques-François Duverney and Gautier-Dagoty's Anatomie de le tête (1749), estimated at €10,000–15,000; and Éluard and…
