Current Events & Trends | October 2020 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Video Fridays: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca

Just this week Netflix dropped the new film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, Rebecca. Starring Armie Hammer, Lily James, and Kristin Scott Thomas, the updated gothic romance has stiff competition from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 version, but we’ll give it a try!

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Visual Art

Mina Loy, Moons I, 1932, mixed media on board, 26 1/4 x 35 1/4 in. (66.68 x 89.54 cm). Private collection.

First Retrospective of Poet and Artist Mina Loy

Warhol, Banksy, and Basquiat Among Contemporary Prints to Auction

Tropic Bound First Biennial Artists’ Book Fair Coming to Miami

Exhibitions

Unknown author, Dafangguang fo huayan jing, fascicle 45, 1085, ink on paper

Huntington to Exhibit Its Oldest Printed Book

Centenary of Adana Printing Press Celebrated in New Exhibition

Illustrator Norman Thelwell Celebrated in New Centenary Exhibition

Maps

18th century map of California

18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Cartographer Olaus Magnus' Map of Sea Monsters

Book People

Nick Barley

Nick Barley Steps Down as Edinburgh International Book Festival Director

British Library Extension Gets Green Light From Planners

Bright Young Collectors: Whitney Milam

Photographs

John Lennon and George Harrison, Paris. 1964

Unseen Beatles Photos by Paul McCartney Lead National Portrait Gallery Reopening

Getty Research Institute Acquires Major Collection of Indian and South Asian Photographs

In Light of Rome Photography Exhibition Opens

Book Arts

Los Lobos

Artists’ Books Celebrate Accordion Music & the Band Los Lobos

Wins for Folio Society at British Book Design Awards

RE-covery II: 43 Artists Re-imagine 43 Books: Review

Sponsored

reading a book

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Rare Books

Justin Croft Antiquarian Books victorian gift books catalogue

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Victorian Gift Books

What's on at New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2023

Honeyman Sale: How Booksellers' Catalogues Help Detect Fakes

Auctions

Sendak books

Books from the Library of Maurice Sendak Head to Auction

Signed Abraham Lincoln Carte de Visite Plus Eyewitness Account of His Assassination

Kelmscott Chaucer, Cookery Books, and Oyez Press Archive: Auction Preview

Americana

Lincoln-Douglas archive

Letters signed by Washington, Hancock and Thomas Paine to Auction

John Dillinger Signed Guilty Plea Sells for $34,370

For Sale: Woody Guthrie’s “Folk Songs”