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The Wordsworth Trust, which operates Wordsworth Grasmere and Dove Cottage, has acquired three…
The Sunderland Collection of world maps has announced the creation of Ex Carta, a sister collection…
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The rise of interest in book culture online through subcommunties such as BookTok and digital trends such as #bookwealth, #shelfies, and #LibraryLife has branched out into an intriguing new area of lengthy video book tours.
Handwritten lyrics by David Bowie and Noel Gallagher join a Bible given to Elvis Presley by a fan at Sotheby's' inaugural Rock & Pop sale with bidding running until April 23.
Highlights from Swann Galleries' April 9 Autographs auction include:Friedrich NietzscheAn uncommon c. 1884-1900 signed photograph cabinet card of Nietzsche, inscribed to Meta von Salis ("Fräulein von Salis"), 1882 vignetted bust portrait by Gustav Adolf Schutze showing him as he appears on the…
An exhibition examining the graphic art of Alphonse Mucha will open at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City on April 18 and run through August 30.
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A rare Albert Uderzo cover painting for the Asterix adventure Les Lauriers de César leads Heritage Auctions' April 18–19 International Comic Art sale.Few of Uderzo’s cover paintings have ever gone under the hammer as most remain in institutional collections or the artist’s estate. The 12 inch by 16…
Leading Heritage Auctions’ April 7 Photographs auction is a rare, medium-format mural print of Ansel Adams’ Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California (1944).Printed circa the mid-1960s, it waw acquired from the Carl Siembab Gallery during that decade and held in the same family…
Firestone Library’s Milberg Gallery will focus on the world of revolutionary Princeton with the opening of Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton and the American Revolution on April 15.
A documentary which will will mark the UK-wide National Year of Reading 2026 and celebrate the transformative power of reading will also include an interview with Queen Camilla.
A life-size bronze likeness of 19th century writer, book reviewer, and women’s rights advocate Margaret Fuller has been donated to Massachusetts’ Concord Free Public Library Corporation and will be unveiled next month.
