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Yale University’s Robert B. Haas
Family Arts Library, 180 York Street, will host the exhibition “Material
Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky” from
August 2 through November 29.
The exhibition covers 50 years of Minsky’s work — from a 1960 sample
book, used when he…
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Bloomsbury Auctions Presents
Important Works from Borges and Steinbeck in its Travel, Literature,
Autographs and Fine Books Sale, Wednesday, June, 23, 2010 at 10am and 2pm
National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, will hold a special film, photography and art-related auction on June 27th that features the first session of the auction gallery’s art, film and photography-themed collections along with many select book and ephemera lots.
Eric Carle, internationally known for his beautiful and highly original tissue paper collages, employs bright colors and bold shapes to create images that are appealing and direct. The Carle’s new exhibition in the West Gallery, Eric Carle Prints and Papers, provides a rare opportunity to view some…
HYDE PARK, NY. On Saturday, June 19, 2010, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host its seventh annual Roosevelt Reading Festival. New Deal scholar and Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University Alan Brinkley will deliver the…
New York -- On Thursday, June 17 Swann Galleries will conduct a two-part auction of Maps & Atlases, Books with Plates, Ephemera; and 19th & 20th Century Literature, Art & Illustrated Books, and Decorative Graphics.The sale begins with a selection of atlases, which features a complete…
Picture by Pakistan’s ‘Picasso’ Who Illustrated Camus Novel, in Bonhams Middle East & South Asian Art Sale
A painting by Sadequain (Pakistan, 1937-1987) titled ‘Three sitting figures’, is estimated to sell for£23,000-28,000 at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern & South Asian…
Trying to find information on printed antique maps can be frustrating. Collectors like reference works to list maps of a particular region and parts of that region in publication date order. Such a work exists for antique maps of North America ... but it only goes up to the year 1700. What…
David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and
managing director of The Carlyle Group, announced today his donation of $5
million ($1 million per year for the next five years) to support the Library of
Congress’s National Book Festival, which this year is celebrating its 10th
anniversary, “A Decade of…
