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Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from…
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International…
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The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has acquired a second tranche of papers of the poet Paul Durcan. Covering the period from the 1960s to the present day, the archive includes hundreds of the poet’s notebooks and folders with manuscript drafts of poems and other works, as well as annotated…
The National Library of Scotland, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Remediating Stevenson project, has unveiled a new exhibition examining the later years of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and his Pacific legacy. This free exhibition reconsiders a writer who arrived in the…
The wartime papers and drumhead wallet of an officer in the German Regiment of the Continental Army once stored on the porch of a descendant’s home and later featured on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow have been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution.
The Charles Dickens Museum has announced that its current Deputy Director, Frankie Kubicki, will become Director of the Museum in March 2025. Kubicki has been with the Museum for eight years, initially as Curator, before progressing to Senior Curator and, latterly, Deputy Director: Programmes…
Salisbury Cathedral has received an early Christmas present from Friends of the Nations’ Libraries (FNL) which has successfully raised £90,000 to buy a stunning 13th century Bible illuminated by the Sarum Master, and returned it home to the cathedral city after more than 700 years.
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments which dates to the Late Roman-Byzantine period (ca. 300–800 CE) has been sold for $5,040,000 at Sotheby’s New York, achieving well above its pre-sale estimate of $1m – $2m. The 115-pound marble artifact inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew was…
Various pieces of Americana and celebrity memorabilia are under the hammer at RR Auction in a sale ending tomorrow.
Highlights of the Encapsulated Auction which ends on December 19 include:
A handwritten manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton exploring the origins of the Nicene Creed and the true doctrine of Christ has sold for $69,870 at RR Auction's latest Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art's exhibition An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama focuses on the first imperial copy of Iran’s national epic, Firdawsi’s Shahnama or Book of Kings.The manuscript, completed sometime between 1330 and 1336 in Tabriz, the capital of the Ilkhanids,…
As the world commemorates the centennial of James Baldwin’s birth, Brooklyn Public Library has opened its Turkey Saved My Life - Baldwin in Istanbul, 1961–1971 exhibition featuring rare photographs by Turkish photographer Sedat Pakay.Running through February 28, 2025 in the Grand Lobby of the…
