The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
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The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
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New York, NY, December 2015 —In 1848 Richard Wagner (1813-1883) began work on what eventually would become his monumental cycle of four music dramas, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). It would be twenty-six years before his masterpiece was fully completed in November 1874.
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal's opinion page included a piece by St. John's College president Christopher B. Nelson, urging us to reread beloved books over the holidays, rather than stampede through the latest bestseller.
New York—Swann Galleries’ December 8 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books featuring The Mapping of America brought over $1.27 million, making it the highest-grossing
Exhibition dates: January 20-April 17, 2016
Exhibition location: Romanesque Hall (Gallery 001, The Cloisters)
Exhibition dates: January 8-April 11, 2016
The FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival will celebrate its 20th year when it returns in 2016 from Saturday 2nd to Sunday 10th April 2016. The first set of speakers and events are officially announced today. The world renowned literary event will once again bring together a distinguished array of…
NEW YORK, December 2015—Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded Columbia University Libraries $2.2 million to develop an online portal to the Corporation’s institutional records, from 1886 to the present. The philanthropic foundation’s records span all manner of formats from paper ledger books…
Today's entry in our Bright Young Librarians series features Laura Aydelotte of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
A golden typewriter? Yes, when Ian Fleming finished writing Casino Royale in 1952 (published in 1953), he rewarded himself by purchasing a gold-plated typewriter. The novel was such a success that thirteen more James Bond books followed, as well as two works of non-fiction and the famous children's…
Coming to auction tomorrow is a remarkable photo--a black and white
