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DALLAS—A scarce original one sheet poster for the 1925 horror classic The Phantom of the Opera—formerly from actor Nicolas Cage’s collection and one of four known to exist—sold for $203,150 in Heritage Auctions’ Vintage Movie Posters Signature® Auction July 19-20 in Dallas.
SAN MARINO, Calif.— The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired one of the most historically and artistically important Chinese illustrated books ever published.
On view August 20 through October 6, 2014, in the Harnett Museum of Art, is the exhibition Tanja Softi?: Migrant Universe. Softi?’s prints, drawings, and paintings combine images of natural and man-made structures with drawings based on appropriated visual material: medical and botanical…
DALLAS—More than 100 years of Hollywood rarities, from Brad Pitt's iconic leather coat from Legends of the Fall (est. $10,000+) to a rare, alternate ending script from Gone With The Wind (est. $1,000+) spotlights Heritage Auctions' Aug.
A vivid, candid and in places disturbing first hand account of the First World War by a solider who served for the entire four years on the Western Front and in Italy is to be sold at Bonhams First World War Commemoration sale in London on 1 October. The five diaries are estimated at £5,000-7…
The Library today opened to the public a collection of approximately 1,000 pages of correspondence between 29th U.S. President Warren G. Harding and his mistress, Carrie Fulton Phillips. The letters, which have been locked in a vault in the Library’s Manuscript Division since their donation in 1972…
Boston, MA, July 24, 2014—The Trustees of the Boston Athenæum announced today the appointment, by unanimous vote, of Elizabeth E. Barker as Stanford Calderwood Director of the Boston Athenæum. Dr. Barker will assume her position on October 1, 2014. She succeeds Paula D. Matthews, who retired as…
BOXBOROUGH, MA—September 20, 2014: Flamingo Eventz is pleased to announce the Autumn version of the popular Boxborough Paper Town: The Vintage Paper, Book & Advertising Collectibles Show. This is the original B
Top prices were achieved across a number of specialist disciplines in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts auction on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th July, including manuscripts, art and mathematics.
Bidding soared for the opening lot of the sale with an almost…
(CHICAGO, IL—July 22, 2014) Technology industry veteran, business leader and philanthropist Jerre L. Stead is the new chairman of the American Writers Museum (AWM) Foundation.
The AWM board of directors approved Stead by unanimous and enthusiastic vote, according to Werner J. Hein, board vice…
