PARIS (REUTERS).- Graying, ink stained notebook fragments showing Napoleon Bonaparte’s efforts two centuries ago to grasp the English language go on auction in Paris at the weekend, alongside some 350 other Napoleonic artifacts. Defeated by the British…
Newseum Gets Japan Quake Handwritten Newspapers
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- When Japan’s earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and printing presses, newspaper journalists in at least one city resorted to handwriting the news on poster-size paper. Seven of those original sheets from the daily Ishinoma…
The Other King’s Speech Goes Under the Hammer at Bonhams
LONDON.- A remarkable hand-written speech delivered by Charles II in Perth on 6 October 1650 is for auction at Bonhams in London on 29 March as part of the Roy Davids sale of Papers and Portraits. Written down the side of one page and folded into four …
The Poetic of Written Space: Handwriting and Calligraphy at Correr Museum in Venice
VENICE.- Part of the educational activities proposed by the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani, and in particular the international workshop “The art of handwriting” which is in its second edition this year (at Correr Museum and Biblioteca d&#…
The Poetic of Written Space: Handwriting and Calligraphy at Correr Museum in Venice
VENICE.- Part of the educational activities proposed by the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani, and in particular the international workshop “The art of handwriting” which is in its second edition this year (at Correr Museum and Biblioteca d&#…
Daniel Buren Creates an Impressive Mirror-Installation for "Synagoge Stommel
PULHEIM-STOMMELN.- On August 29, Daniel Buren will open the latest edition of the Stommeln art projects with his oeuvre “Multiplications, Work in Situ for a Synagogue.” The subtitle “in situ” – on site – which Buren bestow…
Daniel Buren Creates an Impressive Mirror-Installation for "Synagoge Stommel
PULHEIM-STOMMELN.- On August 29, Daniel Buren will open the latest edition of the Stommeln art projects with his oeuvre “Multiplications, Work in Situ for a Synagogue.” The subtitle “in situ” – on site – which Buren bestow…
David Livingstone Long-Lost Letter Deciphered at Last
LONDON (AP).- The contents of a long-lost letter written by 19th-century explorer David Livingstone have been deciphered by a U.S.-British team of academics and scientists. The nearly 140-year-old missive was written by Livingstone as he struggled aga…