LONDON (REUTERS).- London’s British Museum won the 100,000 pound ($160,000) Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year Wednesday for its project “A History of the World.” The project was an exploration of world history using the museum’s collection, at the…
Partial Copy of 500-Year-Old Book for Sale at Rare Book Shop in Utah for $35,000
SALT LAKE CITY (AP).- A partial copy of a 500-year-old book considered one of the earliest and most lavishly illustrated works of the 15th century is now on sale for $35,000 at a rare book shop in Utah. Book dealer Ken Sanders was shocked back in April…
Metropolitan Museum to Open 15 Renovated Galleries in November
NEW YORK, NY.- The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia will take place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 1. The greatly enlarged, fre…
"Paper Wars" at International Poster Gallery Shows Original War Propaganda Posters
BOSTON, MA.- International Poster Gallery (IPG) presents “Paper Wars”, an evocative exhibition of original propaganda posters of the First and Second World Wars. The exhibition, which runs from April 28 through June 15, 2011, features some o…
New Light on Australia’s World War I History Revealed In Photos By Paul Dubotzki
SYDNEY.- Recently discovered photographs of Australia’s little known internment camps operating during WWI, reveal how the internees created an extraordinary life behind the barbed wire. The photographs, of remarkable artistic qu…
First Edition of One of Earliest Printed History Books for Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- A fine first edition of one of the earliest printed histories, the Nuremberg Chronicle (or Liber chronicarum) of July 1493, is for sale at Bonhams Printed Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 7 June. It is estimated at £25,000-30,000. The…