Fine Books News: Recent

The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
Educational Programs
The Center for Book Arts' Education Program strives to engage a wide audience, providing beginning students and professional artists alike with a comprehensive and technically challenging curriculum. The Center for Book Arts is housed in a 5,000 sq. foot loft space in the Flatiron district of…
The man who graces the front cover of our winter issue is US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.
Exhibit
New York, NY, January 2016—As its name declares, photography is a means of writing with light. Photographs both show and tell
Exhibit
London - This week, paper artist Zoe Bradley will be installing five exclusive artworks in Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries. These spectacular sculptures in paper, adorned with Swarovski crystals and pearls, will be exhibited alongside 460 fascinating royal and aristocratic heirlooms from our “…
Bright Young Librarians
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Amy Hildreth Chen, the Special Collections Instruction Librarian at the University of Iowa.
The New York Public Library made an exciting announcement last week--it has made available more than 180,000 images of public domain material from its collection as high-resolution downloads. The idea is to "facilitate sharing, research and reuse by scholars, artists, educators, technologists,…
Exhibit
Castiglione to Warhol, The Art of Making Faces will be on view from January 15 to April 22, 2016, in the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums. Drawn from the University Museums’ collections of drawings, prints, photographs, and paintings, the more than fifty…
Exhibit
New York, NY, January 8, 2016—Andy Warhol’s fascination with publishing and the art of the book was lifelong—rooted in his artistic training as
Auctions
New York—On Thursday, February 4, Swann Galleries will offer Printed & Manuscript Americana, featuring historically significant texts, manuscripts relating to privateering and whaling, as well as collections relating to the Arctic, California as an island, and more.
News
JANUARY 2016--The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) today announced that member library Lehigh University has been awarded a $499,086 grant on PACSCL’s behalf from the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives initiative of the Council on Library and…