A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
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To commemorate the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SP Books in Paris has published
The New York Public Library will join the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Morgan Library & Museum to present a series of simultaneous exhibitions, titled Shared Sacred Sites. The displays at each institution will highlight historic material representing holy…
Westport, CT—An extensive archive of material pertaining to the 1976 hijacking of Air France flight 139 from Tel-Aviv, Israel to Paris - a news story so important it was the inspiration for five movies, including the one currently in theaters titled 7 Days in Entebbe - i
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Autographs on March 22 offered a selection of letters, photographs and works by some of history’s greatest game-changers, with communications by founding fathers, letters from artists and writers, and autographs
Only four copies of the first edition of Thomas Paine's morale-boosting pamphlet, The American Crisis ("These are the times which try men's souls...") were known to survive, but a fifth has come to light and heads to auction in New York on April 12, estimated to reach $75,000.Where did this…
Think of the French Enlightenment, and who comes to mind?
Todd Webb (1905-2000), best known for his photographs of New York, Paris, Georgia O'Keeffe and the American West, is one of the most significant photographers of the 20th century earning him a place in an elite circle of practiti
Dallas, TX - American artist Patrick Nagel’s Joanna (est. $60,000-80,000) is expected to vie for top-lot honors at Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Auction April 24 in Dallas.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has appointed Tracy K. Smith to serve a second term as the nation’s 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2018-2019.
