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MIDDLEBURG, VA - A highly successful Book Fair held by the NSLM for the first time last year will become an annual event. The Book Fair is a part of the 53rd Hunt Country Stable Tour on Memorial Day weekend. The Book Fair is held on Saturday, May 26th from 10 - 5 p.m. The Book Fair is free and open…
Yesterday was the official publication day for Alex Johnson's new book, Bookshelf.
[ITHACA, NY] National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, will host a Sunday, May 6th auction featuring a broad range of rare antique books, as well as a quantity of ephemera and artwork. We will offer another session of World’s Fairs material from the estate of Charles Rand Penney. …
DALLAS, TX - Dorothea Sharp’s lyrical, sun-dappled oil painting At the Fountain (estimate: $50,000+) and Martha Walter’s Beach Scene (estimate: $50,000+) headline a very strong selection of works by important women painters of the 19th and 20th Centuries featured in Heritage Auctions; May 15…
CHADDS FORD, PA April 2012 -- The Chadds Ford studio where Andrew Wyeth, one of the most beloved and significant artists in American history, painted many of his most important works of art, will open for tours in the summer of 2012. Given to the Brandywine River Museum by the artist's…
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Early Printed, Scientific, Medical & Travel Books on Tuesday, May 15 offers Aldine imprints, Bibles, classics, post-medieval manuscripts and works on law, music, astronomy and Italian travel.
An exhibition on Books of Hours titled AN INTIMATE ART - 12 BOOKS OF HOURS FOR 2012 will celebrate the opening of Les Enluminures' new gallery in New York, from May 2 - 25.
Yesterday's New York Times ran an article about novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's new museum. The Istanbul museum, which opened on Saturday, is based on Pamuk's 2008 novel, The Museum of Innocence. The display cases contain nearly one thousand objects--cigarette butts, earrings, ceramic…
New York, NY, April 26, 2012—The Morgan Library & Museum and the Churchill Archives Centre announced today the launch of DiscoverChurchill.org, a website developed in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Churchill: The Power of Words, on view at the Morgan beginning June 8. “We are all…
