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Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 2, 2023, Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 will present selections from a unique unbound album of photographs of New York City created by American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), shedding light on the creative process of…
Household recycling centres are not usually the first place someone would visit if they were looking for something antique or valuable.
An extraordinary book of signatures of 128 Victoria Cross war heroes discovered at a free antiques valuation event will be offered by Hansons Auctioneers on February 14 with a guide price of £3,000-£5,000.
Visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon will have a unique opportunity to delve deeper into the creation of one of the most important books in western literature, Master William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, published in 1623, known as the First Folio at a new exhibition in the…
Irving Penn’s exceptionally bold and textural Blast, 1980, printed 1981 ($30,000-45,000) leads Swann Galleries’ winter 2023 sale of Fine Photographs which closes for bidding February 23 at 12pm eastern.
Other works by Penn include the artist’s charming Old Friends: Balkin, Beaton,…
Successful artists’ books blend the craft of its making—paper, binding, scale, and printing method—with a conceptual premise tied to its status as time-based media in which the idea of the book—sequence, repetition, and audience activation—is essential to its meaning.
The original drawing for the cover of the 1942 edition of Tintin in America is the headline item in Artcurial’s three sales which focus on comic strips and bandes dessinées.
The AntiquarianAuctions.com sale includes over 200 lots of selected material on a wide range of subjects, opening with a group of 36 lots from the library of Hungarian-born bibliophile, book collector, and publisher Francis F. Dobo (1908-1998). This includes literary works from William Faulkner,…
At auction this week are 200 lots of books from the library of author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), sold in support of the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
Black authors have had a huge, under-acknowledged, impact on global literature. Here are ten Black American authors whose work may be unfamiliar to many, but deserve to be known and celebrated by all. These journalists, poets, novelists, and civil activists from the 19th and 20th centuries have…
