Event Calendar

International Center of Photography: Photobooks USA 2000–25 explores how the photobook has emerged as a powerful tool for artists to respond to the forces shaping contemporary life in the United States. Over the past 25 years, this evolution is reflected in the growing number of…

The Newberry Library Trienens Galleries: The American Revolution and the founding documents of the United States placed liberty at the center of the new nation’s identity. But what it meant to dedicate a country to liberty was immediately contested and continues to be contested…

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA): Part of Handwork 2026 Cloth, Paper, Stitches brings together a selection of artists’ books from the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection that foreground the tactile and expressive possibilities of cloth, paper, and thread. Through…

Getty Center: Books were written, decorated, and bound entirely by hand during the pre-modern era in Europe. This exhibition explores the four stages of making medieval books, from preparing animal skin to make parchment, to the methods and materials used for the subsequent…

Harry Ransom Center: Discover the hidden treasures of Houdini’s Library, an exhibition that delves into the life and extraordinary collection of Harry Houdini, one of history’s most famous illusionists. On stage, Houdini crafted his performances with a deep sense of history and…