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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the evolution of technology and its impact on labor…
The current exhibition at The New York Historical focuses on the development of the ideas of the…
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New York, NY, January 2016—As its name declares, photography is a means of writing with light. Photographs both show and tell
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London - This week, paper artist Zoe Bradley will be installing five exclusive artworks in Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries. These spectacular sculptures in paper, adorned with Swarovski crystals and pearls, will be exhibited alongside 460 fascinating royal and aristocratic heirlooms from our “…
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Castiglione to Warhol, The Art of Making Faces will be on view from January 15 to April 22, 2016, in the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums. Drawn from the University Museums’ collections of drawings, prints, photographs, and paintings, the more than fifty…
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New York, NY, January 8, 2016—Andy Warhol’s fascination with publishing and the art of the book was lifelong—rooted in his artistic training as
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New York—On Thursday, February 4, Swann Galleries will offer Printed & Manuscript Americana, featuring historically significant texts, manuscripts relating to privateering and whaling, as well as collections relating to the Arctic, California as an island, and more.
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JANUARY 2016--The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) today announced that member library Lehigh University has been awarded a $499,086 grant on PACSCL’s behalf from the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives initiative of the Council on Library and…
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DALLAS—Heritage Auctions posted its second best ever year in 2015 with total sales of more than $860 million in total prices realized across its auction business as well as its Private Treaty sales. The company also continued to expand its worldwide presence, opening international offices in…
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New York—On Thursday, January 28, Swann Galleries will offer its fourth annual auction of Illustration Art, featuring fine examples of advertising art, book and magazine illustrations, fashion and costume drawings, cartoons and comics.
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AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, announces the appointment of Jim Kuhn as associate director and Hobby Foundation Librarian. Kuhn, who begins April 1, 2016, has a diverse and extensive background in academic and…
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AUSTIN, Texas—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has granted the Harry Ransom Center a 2015 Digitizing Hidden Spec