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Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this nearly 600-lot sale to be held on Thursday, October 20th starting at 10am. The event will be held online and live streamed, with a limited number of bidders physically allowed in the gallery as determined by current Illinois public…
Hudson, NY — Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, is pleased to announce the 2022 Alice is awarded to Alphawood Foundation, Chicago, IL for its publication, Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece (Alphawood Foundation, Chicago, 2021).
Dallas — You know Robert McGinnis' work — famous faces, drop-dead bodies, glitz and glam and grime illuminating a single image — even if you do not know Robert McGinnis.
Los Angeles – The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a collection of 209 photographs by French photographer Eugène Atget, two magnificent busts by French sculptor Charles Cordier, and a pair of rare bronze reliefs by the Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati…
New York – Christie’s continued its sales of the fabled private library of the most prominent antiquarian book dealer of his generation with the online sale of the
Princeton, New Jersey — Princeton University Library exhibition showcases diverse forms of activism from across nine decades.
London — The Shahnameh – or ‘Book of Kings’ – made for Shah Tahmasp of Persia (r.1524-76) is one of the finest illustrated manuscripts in existence. The monumental tome covers the greatest epic of Persian literature, containing 50,000 rhyming couplets and tells the history of all Persia’s rulers…
Wilton, CT – A large historic pen sketch hand-drawn and signed by Apollo XI astronaut Neil Armstrong, a manuscript fragment in George Washington’s hand from the first draft of his first Inaugural Address in 1789, and the Black-Scholes-Merton formula handwritten and signed by Nobel Prize-…
Marlborough, MA — Bonhams Skinner hosted an online sale of Americana from August 6 to 16 and a live sale on August 13 in Bonhams Skinner’s Marlborough galleries. Featuring excellent items from the collections of Warren N. Little and Cogswell Grant, the auctions commanded great interest from bidders…
Washington, D.C. — Three organizations working to expand literacy and promote reading will be awarded the 2022 Library of Congress Literacy Awards, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. Top prizes are being awarded to Street Child, Make Way for Books and Young African…
