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The National Library of Scotland marks its official birthday today on the 100th anniversary of its…
A celebration of the work of printer Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press is the focus of The Baxter…
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Every issue of Action Comics will be going under the hammer at PBA Galleries in its DC Universe Collection Part 6 next month.
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Yale Library has revealed its lineup of fall exhibitions at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library exploring books as a nexus for cultural exchange, historic memory, and artistic innovation and inquiry.
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A true first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit discovered hidden away during a routine house call in Bristol is estimated to fetch £12,000 at auction.
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Works by Mary Blair, her husband Lee, and his brother Preston for Disney are among the highlights of Heritage Auctions' The Art of Disney sale next month.
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The New York Historical has acquired fashion photographer Bill Cunningham’s archive of tens of thousands of images including photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, prints, correspondence, and ephemera.
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69-year-old Key West local Tim Stockwell has been crowned winner of the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest title, beating more than 130 contestants.
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Illustrating Austen at the The Holburne Museum in Bath will showcase the artwork featured in Jane Austen novels over the last 150 years.
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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will open a new exhibition this fall exploring Eric Carle’s career through the perspective of food. Running September 20 through August 23, 2026, Cooking with Eric Carle will feature more than 50 works dating between 1965 and 2019.
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A group of researchers led by researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Nottingham has launched an AI model that can contextualise ancient inscriptions. The research, published in the journal Nature, explains how the AI model called Aeneas could greatly reduce the workload of…
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Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum Miriam Margolyes has officially opened its new exhibition Showtime! revealing the author's love of performing and two centuries of productions of his stories for theatre, film, television, radio and podcast.The co-writer and solo star of Dickens’ Women in…