How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...

A quilt-making group at the Baldwinsville Public Library meets twice a month, and harbors a community willing to help you ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better ... put on the line for love and art. Even the notoriously stuffy ...

Jan 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Erin L ... In his films, his TV shows, and his paintings, Lynch reminded us that all art gestures toward a world beyond the familiar and comforting.

(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...

Larry’s home and the archive—which included photos, letters, books and other composers ... but the loving response from the art community has already started transforming that grief into ...

A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work. Credit... Supported by By Liz Moore Liz ...

Her 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, deftly delineates the contours of art from the stuff of life — layered literary and pop culture allusions are as much visceral as cerebral. She reads ...

Here’s the good news: reading books doesn’t just improve our attention spans, it helps reduce stress, improves sleep and reduces cognitive decline. So if you used to read a lot more before the ...

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s memoirs to a new novel by the reigning Nobel laureate, Han Kang ...

“Believe it or not, we had a library of the oldest books that you can imagine,” Webb said. “These art books reeked of just, like, old. So, I studied the Renaissance artists, the masters.

Most standard picture-hangers hold up to 30lbs. It's easier still to lean art on ledges or on stacks of books, mantelpieces or consoles for a very casual look." Of course, when art is added to a ...