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Hujar: Contact is an exhibition exploring the life, times, and creative evolution of photographer…
Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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[October 2012, Amherst] The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, kicks off its 10th anniversary celebration November 10 and 11 with the Museum’s first major permanent collection exhibition, Iconic Images: 10 Years of Collecting for The Carle. The opening weekend will also feature a…
Coming up at Swann Galleries tomorrow is the most extensive selection of works from the press of Aldus Manutius to appear at auction since the mid-nineties. They come from the library of collector Kenneth Rapoport.
New York, NY, October 19, 2012—The emergence of Mannerism in Florentine Renaissance art as exemplified by the brilliant painter Rosso Fiorentino is the subject of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, opening on November 16, 2012. The show includes the artist’s extraordinary painting…
For your Friday viewing pleasure, head on over to The Guardian for a lovely gallery of the development of the city as seen through historical maps. Beginning with the Nuremberg Chronicle and ending with a Hagstrom Atlas of New York City from 1950, the sixteen images chronicle the rise of the city…
An important collection of Howard Hughes artifacts will be sold at auction November 7 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, documenting Hughes’ record-setting Around-the-World flight. The collection was compiled by Hughes’ flight operations manager, Al Lodwick, who was responsible for mapping the route,…
The André Meyer Musical CollectionThe First Sale at Sotheby’s France devoted entirely to Music totals ??3.3 million / $4.3 million Paris, 17 October 2012: This exceptional collection, running to nearly 500 lots, brought a total of ??3,327,655 ($4.335.570) to establish the most important sale of…
October 16, 2012—The Library of Congress will debut a unique new blog to complement its exhibition, “The Civil War in America,” which opens Nov. 12. The blog will help chronicle the sacrifices and accomplishments of those—from both the North and South—whose lives were lost or affected by the events…
What are the fine pairings of food and book? Is Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano a perfect complement to matzo balls? Are baked chicken legs best served with Catch-22?
NEW YORK — The stalwarts of Illustration art, across all aspects of the genre, showed their mettle once again on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America) in Heritage Auction’s $3.3+ million Illustration Art Signature® Auction, Heritage’s most successful…
(NEW ORLEANS, LA) — New Orleans Auction Galleries is proud to announce another tremendously successful auction. Notable highlights from the two-day event include a fine handcrafted Baccarat full-lead crystal forty-eight light chandelier that sold for $98,400, a record for New Orleans Auction…
