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This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections…
A special festive selection of items related to Christmas from various dealers:* Robert Frost, a…
The results are in for the 37th annual Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, held just last weekend.
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The Library of Congress today announced the winners of its A Book That Shaped Me: Letters About Literature Summer Writing Contest, a program that asks rising fifth- and sixth-graders to reflect on a book that has
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New York, NY—The Thaw Collection is considered among the foremost private collections of drawings assembled over the last half century. It was first promised to the Morgan in 1975 by Eugene V.
Auctions
New York—On Thursday, September 28, Swann Galleries will offer Printed & Manuscript Americana, with highlights that span nearly 500 years and several continents.
Book Fairs
“Bill Kent is the world’s greatest living carver of wood.  There is not anyone else even close,” wrote the New York Times in rare superlative praise for a contemporary artist.
Book Reviews
"[E]very once in a while, an unknown cache of letters or an unknown manuscript will turn up in a basement, attic, or estate sale." That sentence, from a new novel called
Auctions
New York—On Tuesday, September 19, Swann Galleries will offer 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings.
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The Library of Congress has put the papers of Alexander Hamilton online for the first time in their original format.