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A first-of-its-kind, bilingual exhibition at the NYPL will showcase Puerto Rican life and culture…
V&A East Storehouse opens its doors on September 13 to the David Bowie Centre and the singer's…
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Maurice Sendak’s illustrated Brothers Grimm tales and Where the Wild Things Are are among the significant works on offer in Heritage Auctions' June 30 Wild Things: The Art, Literature, and Theatre of Maurice Sendak auction.
Barely any correspondence between the English diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and the mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton (1643-1727) has survived. This makes the chance discovery of a handwritten letter from Newton to Pepys particularly exciting.
Or in Gaelic, Leabharlann Nàiseanta a’ cur air bhog a’ chiad taisbeanadh Gàidhlig aige riamh (to read this article in Gaelic, please scroll down the page).
The National Comedy Center will become the home of Joan Rivers’ career archive including a file cabinet containing more than 65,000 original jokes spanning from the start of her career in the 1950s to 2014 when she died.
A needlework sampler embroidered by a girl who married a direct descendant of William Bradford (1590-1657), signatory to the Mayflower Compact, comes to auction at the British auction house Sworders this month.
Three albums bring together 761 postcards featuring places in Staffordshire including Stafford, Lichfield, Whittington, and Chase Terrace, go under the hammer on day one of Richard Winterton Auctioneers’ Antiques & Home Sale on June 12. As a single lot, the three albums are estimated at £2…
Autographed items by Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Pancho Villa, Mahatma Gandhi, and an archive of letters from Ezra Pound feature in the June 15 Fine Books & Manuscripts sale at Swann Galleries which will feature many rare autographs and books, with a special selection dedicated to…
Historians at Hever Castle believe that Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, and Thomas Cromwell all owned a copy of the same prayer book.
Leading Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on June 22 in New York, is a previously unknown, extensive medical manuscript by John Morgan, the father of American medicine and the founder of America’s first medical college in 1765.
Swann Galleries’ third iteration of Focus on Women, an auction dedicated to the contributions of women to art, life, and society, brought $361,090, with literature and archives - especially those of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - among the leading items of the sale.
