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Bernard Shapero has been appointed as the new president of the The Antiquarian Booksellers'…
Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery is a new exhibition at Winterthur Museum, Garden…
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The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) is to hold an exhibition of 40 contemporary handcrafted artists' books inspired by Japanese aesthetics with the majority of pieces coming from Japan.
FrielDays, the five-year project celebrating one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Brian Friel (1929-2015), is to feature an annual strand of special birthday events inspired by the playwright.Each year, the birthday events will happen around Friel’s two birth dates – January 9 and 10 – to reflect the…
The Grolier Club will explore the singular wit of American literary legend Mark Twain in the new exhibition A First-Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor. On view from January 15 through April 5, 2025, the exhibition examines the work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens who crafted the “Mark Twain”…
Surrealist and fashion photographer, model and pioneering war correspondent, Lee Miller (1907-1977) was a force of nature who had an exceptional career. Yet, for a long time, it remained hidden – even from her son – with all of her negatives and photographs stored away in the attic at her home,…
A complete collection of the books published by 19th century writer and designer William Morris from his Kelmscott Press has achieved white glove results – 100% sold – at Bonhams.
A selection of Washington Irving manuscripts leads RR Auction's January Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.
Al Milgrom’s original cover art for The Amazing Spider-Man No. 194 which introduced Black Cat in 1979 goes under the hammer for the first time in Heritage Auctions' January 9 -12 Comics & Comic Art sale.Milgrom, who’d previously worked on Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy…
The history of the recently restored Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris defined has been shaped by books, manuscripts and prints which were used for worship or study and are now on display until March 16, 2025, at the Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris.
The Charles Dickens Museum opened its doors for the first time in 1925 and will be celebrating its centenary next year with Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum, a celebration of both the life of Dickens and of a museum which now holds the world’s most comprehensive…
The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has acquired a second tranche of papers of the poet Paul Durcan. Covering the period from the 1960s to the present day, the archive includes hundreds of the poet’s notebooks and folders with manuscript drafts of poems and other works, as well as annotated…
