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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…
Catalogue Review: L.W. Currey, List #14Today I'm taking a journey to the center of a genre I know little about ... science fiction. But the twenty-page Occasional List #14 offered by L.W. Currey of Elizabethtown, NY, is a pleasure to read nevertheless. The descriptions are straightforward, the…
Exhibit
For Immediate Release-January 4, 2012Lloyd Library and Museum (LLM) is pleased to announce: "Turning up the Heat this Winter: Peppers in Image and Word." January 14 through April 13, 2012. Opening reception and lecture-Saturday, January 14, 2012, 4-7 p.m.
What do Laurence Durrell, Robert Frost, Graham Greene, E.M. Forester, and J.R.R. Tolkien have in common?  They were all passed up by the 1961 Nobel Prize committee in favor of the eventual winner, Yugoslavian writer Ivo Andric.
Book Fairs
Boston, MA - Marvin Getman of Impact Events Group, Lexington, MA. announced the acquisition of the popular Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show from Bernice Bornstein of Bornstein shows, Peabody MA. Getman also produces the Book, Paper, and Photo Expo held in May in suburban Boston which is…
Exhibit
AUSTIN, Texas — “The King James Bible: Its History and Influence,” an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, demonstrates that four centuries after its first printing, the King James Bible (1611) remains one of the most influential books in the English…
January's a fairly quiet auction month overall, but there's certainly the potential for a really big sale price, at Christie's New York on 20 January.
Exhibit
In Illuminations: The Private Lives of the Medieval Kings BBC Four will tell the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated manuscripts from the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts collection which contains some of the most priceless documents in our national history.…
Exhibit
DENVER (January 3, 2012) - The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) today announces the exhibition, More American Photographs, opening March 1, 2012 with more than 100 works presenting some of the best-known examples from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) alongside recently…
Current Events & Trends
Coming up later this month at Christie's, the Duke of Portland's four-volume set of J
New Year's Eve has passed, and with it, the opportunity to freely imbibe before the new resolutions set in.