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The Bodleian Libraries' forthcoming exhibition Wonder of Birds will feature rare 10th century…
Bonhams' 50 Years Of Punk dedicated auction next week will focus on artefacts from bands such as…
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A rare book formerly owned by Richard III - and bearing his signature - has gone on public display for the first time since it was compiled 550 ye
New York City, March 6, 2013—PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced yesterday at its Annual Members’ Meeting the newly-elected and reelected officer trustees of the Board, including John Troubh, Executive Vice President, and…
As Oscar Wilde put it, "The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth." The New-York Historical Society is set to open part one of a major, three-part exhibition featuring all 474 original watercolors related to the double-elephant folio first edition of Audubon's Birds of America. NYHS…
San Francisco, CA — MARCH is pleased to present Photographs, an exhibition of Paulette Tavormina's exquisite still lifes. The show opens March 14, 2013 and continues through June 1.
A deeply characterful portrait of Seamus Heaney by Peter Edwards, who also painted the portrait of the Irish poet which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London, is be auctioned at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, on 10 April during the sale of Roy Davids Collection Part III: Poetry: Poetical…
Today's post is a guest blog from Zhenya Dzhavgova, proprietor of ZH Books in California and a former profile in our Bright Young Things series.
Cincinnati, OH — March 2013: The first Natural History of North America was published in 1731 by an Englishman, Mark Catesby. Since that time, there has been a steady stream of works on that subject, an attempt to identify what new and amazing life was here. These early naturalist explorers…
Opening tomorrow at New York's Gagosian Gallery is an exhibit titled Ed Ruscha: Books & Co. Ruscha, who once said, "I want to be the Henry Ford of book making," wanted to make artists' books accessible to a wider audience. His first photobook, Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962), was a series of…
BEVERLY HILLS — Irving Penn’s iconic close-up portrait of Picasso is expected to bring $60,000+ to lead a rare selection of four different Penn portraits offered in Heritage Auctions’ March 23 Photographs Signature® Auction.
NEW YORK — A three-cel set-up from Walt Disney’s classic Lady and the Tramp realized $33,460 and a cel featuring Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia sold for $26,290 during Heritage Auctions’ Animation Art Signature® Auction. The Feb. 21 auction sold 93.9% by value and 97.8% by…
