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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Alexandra E. LaGrand, winner of the 2025…
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' auction include:Ten Years Ago: The Nazis Burned These Books (U.S…
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Frank Frazetta’s cover painting known as Man Ape for the 1967 Lancer/Ace Conan paperback sold for $13.5m in a single-lot sale at Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art event. This marks a new record for an original Frazetta painting, and is the highest auction result for any Frazetta work…
A first-of-its-kind, bilingual exhibition at the NYPL will showcase Puerto Rican life and culture through comic books, its complex past, relationship to New York City, and futuristic visions of fantasy worlds.
V&A East Storehouse opens its doors on September 13 to the David Bowie Centre and the singer's archive of writings and sketches in London.Highlights include:
The Nature of Gothic at Blackburn Museum celebrates how artists across centuries, disciplines and faiths have all drawn inspiration from the natural world.At its heart are treasures from Blackburn’s Hart Collection, one of the UK’s most important collections of rare books and manuscripts,…
The Tucson-based gallerist's library which goes under the hammer at 11am Pacific Time today at PBA Galleries runs to more than 4,500 volumes, and has supported over 300 exhibitions and 150 art fairs, featuring numerous signed and inscribed editions by photographers that he worked with over the…
Running September 19 through February 1, 2026 L is for Look will focus on children's photobooks from their rise in the 1930s to the present day at the Photo Elysée in Lausanne.Most of the books on display come from the Photo Elysée library, one of the largest collections of photography books in…
The entire United States Constitution is to go on display for the first time as part of the National Archives’ celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.The four-page Constitution and the original Bill of Rights will be surrounded by 17 Constitutional amendments, filling the Rotunda…
Highlights from Forum Auctions' Books and Works on Paper online sale on September 11 featuring the work of Eric Ravilious from the collection of Barry & Saria Viney include: High Street by J. M. Richards
The fourth annual David Ruggles Prize to support and encourage international young book collectors of color has been awarded to
Laurane Reine-Adelaïde for her collection on Martinique.Reflecting the everyday lives of the Caribbean island's people, her collection is particularly rich in material on…
The Carle will open a new exhibition later this month exploring Eric Carle’s career through the perspective of food. Cooking with Eric Carle, running September 20 through August 23, 2026, at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, will feature more than 50 works dating from…
