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The first real public narrative movie screening took place in Paris in 1895 featuring the Lumière brothers' comedy short L'Arroseur Arrosé (The Waterer Watered). The event was promoted by a large poster that depicted an enthusiastic audience enjoying this new kind of entertainment.
The Oxford Botanic Garden is continuing to celebrate its 400th anniversary - and Hobbit Day - with a new limited edition whisky that has distinct Tolkien overtones.
The British Museum Press today publishes Artists making books: poetry to politics, a striking new publication showcasing its little known yet extensive collection of artists’ books.
The Library of Congress has released some 230 newly digitized manuscripts written in Hebrew and similar languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian and Yiddish. The collection, available online for researchers and the public for the first time, includes a 14th century collection of responsa by…
Handwritten lyrics by Freddie Mercury lead the first night of the Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own auction at Sotheby's last night, eventually going for £1,379,000. Every lot sold in the 'white glove' auction which made a total of £12.2m/$15.4m, including Queen frontman's Freddie's Yamaha…
Potter & Potter's Late Summer Magicana Auction realized nearly $425,000 with a 99% sell through rate. Sale highlights included Thurston the World’s Greatest Magician. The Lady and the Lion. Estimated at $10,000-15,000 and eventually making $43,200, this one-sheet poster depicted three illusions…
The manuscript of Tikune Shabat (prayers and devotions for the Sabbath) sold for a hammer price of £57,000 at Hansons Auctioneers (Sept 5) after an intense international bidding battle. It had been guided at £5,000-£10,000.
The 10-part series – a joint original feature production for fall 2023 from C-SPAN and the Library of Congress - will trace America's history by exploring masterpieces in literature that have had, and still have today, a major impact on society. The series which C-SPAN will air LIVE on Mondays…
In September 1773, Phillis Wheatley published Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral in London, becoming the first African American writer to publish a book of poetry, and only the third colonial American woman of any race to publish a book.
Mort Meskin's original cover for 1941's Leading Comics No. 1, featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory, and Fred Ray and Jerry Robinson's cover for Batman and Robin's Detective Comics No. 58 (inside which The Penguin waddled his first steps) lead Heritage Auctions' September 14-17 Comics & Comic…
