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The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
Decorations and holiday trees inspired by poems, traditional tales, and children’s books are on…
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Denis Kitchen will bring 275 works of original comic art to Heritage Auction’s April 4-7 Comics & Comic Art sale including work ranging from Li’l Abner originals by Al Capp to Spirit offerings from Will Eisner.
BookBuzz.org is a new search engine that aims to help people shop from independent booksellers.Search results should show the cheapest copies available online from booksellers, bookstores and marketplaces. It does not display listings from Amazon or any of its subsidiaries.The website suggests…
The National Trust’s annual insect pests report has found that Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina), which feed on books, paper and cotton, retained top spot with recorded numbers rising by six per cent.The report collates information gathered by house staff around the Trust, helping the charity to…
A nearly 400-year-old letter that documents the mythologized 'purchase' of the island of Manhattan from the Indigenous peoples who inhabited it is on view now through July 14, at the New-York Historical Society.
The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History looks at how the Arctic has been visually depicted from the 16th century to the present, and runs through July 13 at the New York Public Library.
Inspired by the life and work of Beacon Hill-based abolitionist Harriet Bell Hayden, Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums at the Boston Athenaeum brings together rarely seen works and examines Black abolitionists’ public identities, private lives, visual culture, and social activism…
John le Carré's desks, tables, chairs and other personal effects from his Cornish estate Tregiffian will go under the hammer at Roseberys London on March 20.
Cambridge University Library will draw on its collections of crime fiction for a new exhibition opening later this month.
A historic report detailing the development of the atomic bomb signed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and 23 other minds behind the Manhattan Project has been sold for $53,594 by Boston-based RR Auction.
![Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 [1725], Catalogue no.1. The autograph manuscript of the full score, the only surviving working manuscript, with annotations also by Bach's eldest son, Wilehelm Friedemann.](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_listed_teaser_thumb_768x735_/public/media-images/2024-03/bach.jpg?itok=f5spS-f2)
Bodleian Libraries has announced the acquisition through the Acceptance in lieu scheme of the autograph of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day, Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein (BWV 128).
