A new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the evolution of technology and its impact on labor…
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The Cat’s Pyjamas: Cats in Culture and Society two-day conference will be held at Senate House Library May 25-26, focusing on the historic role of cats in our literature and society.
The conference will explore the influence of cats in literature, film, social media, and music with keynote talks…
Highlights from various exhibitors at the ABAA Virtual Book Fair Spring Edition running through May 13 include:
Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages explores lively images of play in medieval manuscripts drawn from the Getty Museum’s collection. The exhibition goes on view at the Getty Center from May 16 through August 6, 2023.
Boston-based RR Auction has announced the sale for $106,985 of a rare and pristine Apple Computer Company check signed by Steve Jobs in 1976.
The check, dated July 8, 1976, was payable to Crampton, Remke & Miller, Inc. for $175 and is filled out in type and signed by Jobs himself.
An academic wager on Super Bowl LVII has been fulfilled with the opening of the exhibition Promoting Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society and Science in Early America, at Kansas City's Linda Hall Library,
More than 100 international antiquarian dealers will descend on the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea for Firsts, London’s Rare Book Fair, running this year May 19-21.
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Georgia Brown at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee:
What is your role at your institution?
Nearly two centures after his death, the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe is in the running to win the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Austrian singers Teya and Salena will be representing their country in the second semi-final on May 11 with Who The Hell Is Edgar?, a song in which the 19th…
When you hear the phrase “book collector” what image comes to mind?
A gruff, older man sitting in a hole-in-the-wall storefront, surrounded by dusty books on overstuffed shelves? An academic with lots of letters after her name and a well-appointed library in her home? A new-money millionaire…
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has opened its groundbreaking exhibition Fukuda Kodōjin: Japan’s Great Poet and Landscape Artist. Fukuda Kodōjin (1865–1944) was among a handful of scholar-artists who continued the tradition of literati painting (nanga) after 1900.
