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Highlights of the Potter & Potter Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia auction on April 18…
Highlights from the collection of rare book dealer, publisher, and collector David Aronovitz will…
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The School of Advanced Study, University of London is delighted to announce the launch of InScribe, the UK’s first—and freely available—online training platform for the study of medieval manuscripts, or Palaeography.
InScribe provides a set of distance learning materials suitable both for someone…
Sir John Betjeman’s handwritten draft of one of his best known poems, ‘The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel’ is to be sold in Part I of The Roy Davids Collection III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams New Bond Street on 10 April. The only…
A great new exhibit of 'bad books' just opened at Syracuse University's Special Collections Research Center. Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 traces the history of the infamous indie publisher on Grove Street in New York's Greenwich Village. Led by Barney Rosset, who died in February of…
Boston, Mass. — Skinner, Inc. will auction prints, photographs, paintings, and sculpture on Friday, February 1st at its Boston gallery. The auction, presented in two sessions, will feature prints and photography starting at 12 p.m. and painting and sculpture beginning at 4 p.m.
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Yesterday was the inaugural "George Orwell Day" in the United Kingdom, held in commemoration of the writer's work on the sixty-third anniversary of his death. Orwell died in London on
Upcoming Auction: Sunday, January 27th, 2012 - Americana, Antique, Firsts, Nautical, etc.
Washington, DC—Combining rebellion, scientific precision, beauty, and imagination, the Pre-Raphaelites created art that shocked 19th-century Britain. On view from February 17 through May 19, 2013, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington—the sole U.S. venue—Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and…
Washington, DC—The National Gallery of Art presents the first major exhibition devoted to the art of photographic manipulation before the advent of digital imagery. Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop will be on view in the West Building's Ground Floor galleries from February 17…
The Swann Galleries sale of twentieth-century illustration art on January 24 seems destined for success. Its biggest draw (pun intended) being a very fine collection of works written and/or illustrated by the late Maurice Sendak. He was collectible before his death last May, and, as it goes, more…
