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If Arthur Ransome's classic series, Swallows and Amazons, is a favorite, you'll be chuffed to learn of a new tourism initiative that allows visitors to "cast off into your very own Swallows & Amazons adventure." Brought to you by Craig Manor Hotel, which recently released another literary…
Los Angeles — The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the donations of two groups of photographs from collectors Leslie and Judith Schreyer and Michael and Jane Wilson. The gifts include works by artists not previously in the Museum’s collection, as well as photographs that enhance the Museum’s…
Los Angeles, California - “Remembering Disneyland,” a highly-anticipated public auction of over 800 rare and original items chronicling th
Dallas, Texas - The most decorated franchise in baseball history continued its winning ways in Heritage Auctions’ “Yankee Legends” auction, emphatically closing out annual auction sales in excess o
Austin, Texas — More than 27,000 images from Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez’s archive are now online.
Ithaca, NY—Worth Auctions, located in Dryden, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.
The December 17, 2017 sale at Worth Auctions features a broad range of fine art and antiques from multiple estates and collections nationwide. …
Los Angeles - Twenty years ago this month, visitors streamed to a Brentwood mountaintop to see the brand new Getty Center, featuring breathtaking vistas, sky-lit galleries, dramatic modernist architecture by Richard Meier, and the always-changing Central Garden, created by artist Robert Irwin.
The year-end fundraiser to keep Booklyn in Brooklyn is nearing its final days. Founded in 1999, the non-profit artists and bookmakers association has promoted, documented, and distributed artists' books to the general public and educational institutions, dedicated to education through the…
The big news at Sotheby's forthcoming Judaica sale on December 20 may be the 14th-century illuminated Hebrew Bible from Spain, estimated to sell in excess of $3.5 million, but there are some other sterling (pun intended) lots in the sale, including more than two dozen silver (and gold) bookbindings…
One man’s fascinating record of four winters in the Antarctic during the 1920s has been rediscovered.
