NEW YORK (AP).- An auction of a trove of author John Steinbeck’s letters, manuscripts and photographs from his New York City apartment produced lackluster bidding on Wednesday, with half of the items failing to sell or fetching prices below their pre-s…
Lackluster Bidding for John Steinbeck’s NYC Archive
NEW YORK (AP).- An auction of a trove of author John Steinbeck’s letters, manuscripts and photographs from his New York City apartment produced lackluster bidding on Wednesday, with half of the items failing to sell or fetching prices below their pre-s…
Godfried Bomans in the Starring Role in Exhibition at De Hallen Haarlem
HAARLEM.- This summer De Hallen Haarlem presents an exhibition on Godfried Bomans. For years he was the most-read author in The Netherlands. The exhibition gives a picture of Bomans’s multifaceted talent: as a writer, as a composer and as a TV per…
British Museum Announces "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" Exhibition
LONDON.- The British Museum’s major Autumn exhibition, supported by BP, will present and explore ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death. Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead will showcase the rich textual and v…
Mark Twain’s Unpublished Manuscript, ‘A Family Sketch’, Sets Auction Record
NEW YORK, NY.- Today at Sotheby’s New York, the second offering of rare books and manuscripts from The James S. Copley Library achieved a total of $2,783,347, bringing the total for the first four auctions of the Library to $7,146,231. The Mark Tw…
John Steinbeck’s Apartment Archive to be Auctioned at Bloomsbury Auctions
NEW YORK (AP).- John Steinbeck kept his California roots close when writing such masterpieces as “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden,” but the Nobel Prize winner also loved New York and made it his home for much of his life. Now, a trove of his per…
The Emergence of Gay Liberation Explored in Exhibition at The New York Public Library
NEW YORK, NY.- June 28, 2009 will mark the 40th
anniversary of the historic Stonewall Riots that occurred in Greenwich Village,
New York. Many cite the riots as the birth of the Gay Rights Movement in the
United States. From June 1969 until June…
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) features “Pathways to Unknown Worlds"
Philadelphia, PA – Jazz pioneer,
bandleader, mystic, philosopher, and consummate Afro- Futurist, Sun Ra, (born
Herman Poole Blount 1914, Birmingham, Alabama, died 1993) and his personal
mythology have grown increasingly relevant to a broad range…