A new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the evolution of technology and its impact on labor…
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Nearly 1,500 items will go under the hammer at Heritage's June 22-25 Comics & Comic Art auction including work by Frank Frazetta, Golden Age Batmans, pages documenting the birth of Bane, original Calvin and Hobbes strips, and the first meeting of MAD's 'Spy vs. Spy'.
The Fall 2023-Spring 2024 Grolier Club exhibition schedule offers an intriguing range of displays from bookbindings and translation to detective fiction and its opening Fall exhibition, Presidents and Their Books: What They Read and What They Wrote (September 7 – November 11).
A group of scientists, researchers, and scholars have studied three of what are believed to be among the earliest surviving photographic artifacts in the Americas, created by 19th century artist and inventor Hercule Florence. Their work sheds new light on the race to create the first lasting…
New polling by the Publishers Association has found that people are turning to books and reading as a form as escapism this summer. A third of respondents say that books offer them the best form of escapism when they are having a bad day. This is ahead of streaming television (32%), looking at…
Christie’s will present Alice & Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Artists Collecting Art, an online sale of 50 select works which opens for bidding on June 30 until July 14, alongside a group of Old Master pictures and illuminated manuscripts that will be offered from their collection in the Old…
Childhood drawings by King Charles III of his parents in grand attire have been discovered in a major collection of royal memorabilia.The crayon and pencil portraits depict his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and father, Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. The queen wears a …
A Hogwarts acceptance letter and envelope used in the first of the Harry Potter movies is expected to sell for more than £10,000 ($16,620) at a June 22 auction conducted by Chiswick Auctions. The rare movie prop has been consigned after being bought it at a school charity auction in 2002.
Maurice Sendak’s illustrated Brothers Grimm tales and Where the Wild Things Are are among the significant works on offer in Heritage Auctions' June 30 Wild Things: The Art, Literature, and Theatre of Maurice Sendak auction.
Barely any correspondence between the English diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and the mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton (1643-1727) has survived. This makes the chance discovery of a handwritten letter from Newton to Pepys particularly exciting.
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