Exhibits
The assassination of Thomas Becket, in Canterbury Cathedral, on 29 December 1170 changed the course of history.
Occurring in conjunction with the 2020 annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Philadelphia (April 2–4, 2020), this exhibition will examine the making of the hand-written and hand-i
Join us on March 10, 2020, at 6 PM for a conversation between Granary Books publisher Steve Clay & editor and archivist Mary Catherine Kinniburgh that celebrates the opening of Participating Wi
Speaking of Book Arts: Oral Histories from UW-Madison is a first-time collaboration between the Chazen, Kohler Art Library, and UW Archives presenting fifty years of book arts at UW–Madison.
An exhibition of the political illustrations of the prolific and popular Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), known for enduring works such as La Calavera Catrina.
The St. Francis Missal—a legendary 12th-century manuscript and relic of touch of St. Francis of Assisi—will have its first dedicated exhibition at the Walters Art Museum in more than 40 years.
Atwood, Ondaatje, Gallant, Davies. These names are familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in Canadian literature. But the writers are only one aspect of the CanLit story.
The medieval bishop and bibliophile Richard de Bury describes books as an "infinite treasure," for they, more than any other human contrivance, are able to preserve the knowledge and the wisdom, as
Manjiro’s epic tale begins in 1841, when, as a teenager, he left his tiny Japanese village on a fishing trip.
Items range from New York City Rainfall 1987 by Sandy Gellis, a portfolio of prints which document a year’s rainfall, to this year’s My Mighty Journey, which traces 12,000 years of a waterfall’s ex
