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The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and…
The New York Public Library has announced plans to commemorate the semiquincentennial of the…
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The Clive Bullimore Autograph Collection, including the signatures of around 60,000 different celebrities, amassed by a former stockbroker over more than 70 years is a Who’s Who of 20th century pop culture and expected make in excess of £100,000 at Sworders.
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Elizabeth Xi Bauer has opened The moon between my teeth, an exhibition in London of new works by Gokula Stoffel in conversation with Alexandra Zarins’ most recent series of paintings, inspired by Anne Sexton’s poem The Frog Prince.
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Christie’s will present an autograph letter from the 26-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his close friend Baroness von Waldstätten (estimate: £300,000–500,000) declaring that he will need to get married within two days in order to save his future wife from the scandal of…
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter corrected page proofs led Christie’s' Fine Books and Manuscripts June sales, going for $693,000 to philanthropist and bibliophile Stuart Rose.
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Heritage will present the first broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence printed in Massachusetts at auction on July 8. There are only six recorded copies of this historic broadside, and the one going under the hammer is one of just two in private hands - the only other copy in private…
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Nearly 1,500 items will go under the hammer at Heritage's June 22-25 Comics & Comic Art auction including work by Frank Frazetta, Golden Age Batmans, pages documenting the birth of Bane, original Calvin and Hobbes strips, and the first meeting of MAD's 'Spy vs. Spy'.
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A group of scientists, researchers, and scholars have studied three of what are believed to be among the earliest surviving photographic artifacts in the Americas, created by 19th century artist and inventor Hercule Florence. Their work sheds new light on the race to create the first lasting…
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New polling by the Publishers Association has found that people are turning to books and reading as a form as escapism this summer. A third of respondents say that books offer them the best form of escapism when they are having a bad day. This is ahead of streaming television (32%), looking at…
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Christie’s will present Alice & Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Artists Collecting Art, an online sale of 50 select works which opens for bidding on June 30 until July 14, alongside a group of Old Master pictures and illuminated manuscripts that will be offered from their collection in the Old…
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Childhood drawings by King Charles III of his parents in grand attire have been discovered in a major collection of royal memorabilia.The crayon and pencil portraits depict his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and father, Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. The queen wears a …