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Beverly Hills, California, August 17, 2011 — Julien’s Auctions, the world’s premier entertainment and celebrity memorabilia auction house will offer a rare glimpse into the life of Hollywood’s most colorful stars, Tony Curtis.
(Boston, Massachusetts, August 16, 2011) Thanks to a generous gift from Trustee Emeritus Caleb Loring, Jr., the Boston Athenæum will conserve, catalogue, photograph, digitize, and release on the Internet important selections from its world-renowned Confederate Imprints Collection.
As China continues her strong economic growth, and takes her place as one of the great world powers, so too has interest grown in important historical works on the Middle Kingdom. This was hammered home at the auction by PBA Galleries of San Francisco of a small but significant group of rare books…
(Amherst, MA) August 11, 2011—The Carle is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition featuring cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and children’s book author and illustrator Jules Feiffer. Growing Every Which Way But Up: The Children’s Book Art of Jules Feiffer will open in Amherst,…
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Philip Levine as the Library’s 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2011-2012.Levine will take up his duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season with a reading of his work at the Coolidge…
New York, New York, August 9, 2011—Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was Britain's first true literary superstar. In his time, he attracted international adulation on an unprecedented scale, and many of his books became instant classics. Today, his popularity continues unabated, and his work remains not…
Amherst, MA—The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts is now showing a small exhibition of Pooh and his friends, featuring the book’s penultimate drawing from Winnie-the-Pooh recently purchased by private collectors. The iconic piece depicts Pooh and Piglet walking…
New York, NY, August 4, 2011—This fall The Morgan Library & Museum will host an exhibition of eighty of the Musée du Louvre's finest drawings by artists working in France from the onset of the Revolution in 1789 through the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852. David, Delacroix, and…
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY -- A major exhibit and symposium organized by the Vassar College Libraries will mark the centenary of the acclaimed poet Elizabeth Bishop, a 1934 Vassar graduate who earned the Pulitzer Prize and many other major U.S. literary honors before her death in 1979.
The Fine Art Auction Group, holding company for the Dreweatts and BCVA auction businesses, has acquired the London-based Bloomsbury Auctions business from Bloomsbury Auctions Ltd, consolidating the co-marketing alliance that has been in place between the two firms since October 2009. The…
