Fine Books News: Recent

The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian…
Auctions
A busy week coming up in the salerooms!
Events
The 2020 Library of Congress National Book Festival will connect with audiences across the country for an interactive, online celebration of "American Ingenuity" for the festival's 20th year, featuring new books by more than 120 of the nation's most-renowned writers, poets and artists.
Exhibit
Edinburgh — Outstanding examples from the Royal Collection’s holdings of South Asian works of art have gone on display for the first time in Scotland at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Book People
We’re beginning a new series called “Video Fridays” in order to share and signal-boost some great videos from the rare book world. (Have a suggestion? Add in comments below, or email me directly.)
Exhibitions
For those who have read The Hare with Amber Eyes, the name Edmund de Waal will be familiar. In the acclaimed memoir, the renowned ceramicist traces his family’s netsuke collection through the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries amid war and dislocation.  
I don’t know about you, dear readers, but it’s been nothing short of a miracle for me to focus on much other than the parade of horribles happening right now.
Visual Art
Coming up this Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, book artist Richard Minsky is presenting a Zoom talk, Modernism in American Book Cover Art, 1872-1930. Minsky has been collecting, studying, and writing books about decorative book covers for more than a decade.
Auctions
London - Christie’s announces highlights featuring in the forthcoming innovative Classic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century, taking place as a live auction on 29 July. This season the Classic Art group has joined together to present an evening sale comprising 69 lots of exceptional…
Exhibitions
Galleries and museums in the UK are taking their first tentative steps towards reopening as lockdown restrictions start to relax. Among them is the Charles Dickens Museum in London which is reopening its doors on July 25. Its new exhibition, Technicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickens…
Opera fans might hit a high note when they hear this: a collection of musical scores from the personal library of the legendary American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas is being offered in an online sale at Christie’s that ends on July 30.