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NEW YORK—The results of Swann Galleries’ December 12 auction of Classic Photographs & Photobooks illustrate the strengthening market for vernacular images and the appeal of fine examples of Contemporary Art.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces a series of new acquisitions of works by artist Andy Warhol that includes two gifts and a recent purchase. The works will be exhibited, together with works already in the Crystal Bridges collection, in the museum’s Twentieth-Century Art Gallery, in…
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(Boston, MA, December 19, 2013)—The Boston Athenæum will present craftsman Peter Korn on his new book, Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman on Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. in the Athenæum’s Long Room at 10 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston. The event is open to…
A book charting the expedition which led to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, sold as part of a set for £14,880 at Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Antiquarian Books, held yesterday, Wednesday 18th December.
AUSTIN, Texas—In conjunction with the centenary of the start of the First World War, the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, presents the exhibition “The World at War, 1914-1918.” The exhibition runs from Feb. 11 through Aug. 3.
AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to establish an endowment that will sustain the institution’s exhibition program.…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—December 17, 2013—We are delighted to announce that Richard S. Newman has been appointed to succeed John C. Van Horne as the Edwin Wolf 2nd Director of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
NEW YORK—Swann Galleries’ November 26 auction of Autographs brought in more than $990,000*—making it the highest earning sale in the department’s history.
(Boston, MA, December 2013)—The Winter 2014 Noon Series at the Boston Athenæum features book talks on the Civil War, famous writers who also gardened, the rise of Boston’s suburbs, an alphabet in ancient Greek, Richard Powers’ latest novel, and more.
