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The current exhibition at The New York Historical focuses on the development of the ideas of the…
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Kestenbaum & Company’s forthcoming auction of Fine Judaica will take place on Thursday, June 25th at 3:00 pm in the company’s gallery in New York City. Although by lot count this particular auction will be smaller in size than the norm, a great deal of time was spent on researching and…
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Last week, the Library of Congress unveiled its 2015 National Book Festival poster and official blog.
James Joyce fans partake in annual celebrations on June 16--Bloomsday--and what better place (in the U.S.) to celebrate than at The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which hosts a weeklong series of events and programs for
ITHACA, NY—National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.
On June 26, the British Library will host "The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril: Theft, Retrieval, Sale and Restitution of rare books, maps and manuscripts," a conference focused on the illegal trading of priceless cultural materials.
(New York, June 12, 2015)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that the Museum will present a major retrospective exhibition of the photographs of Irving Penn (1917-2009) to mark the centennial of the artist’s birth. He further announced that The…
LONDON, Dover Street—With Dr Timothy Bolton at the helm, the inaugural Western Manuscripts & Miniatures sale at Bloomsbury Auctions on Wednesday 8th July is a journey through the history of writing and illuminating books in exactly 100 lots. The auction, which spans four millennia and a vast…
Everything's better in color, and this summer, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is celebrating a century of film in Technicolor with a film exhibition called "Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond". Through August 5, the museum will be showing American films made during…
A private film of Amelia Earhart made shortly before her doomed final flight has surfaced 78 years later.
