Sponsored by The Grolier Club Mon Nov 14, 6:00-7:30 Eastern time Denise Gigante, a professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, will lecture on her new publication, "Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America." For this fascinating history of American bookishness, Prof. Gigante's springboard is the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Nov 15, 6:00pm-7:30 Eastern time Georgia physician Walter Evans, collector of historical and contemporary African American art and literature, in conversation with Jenny Robb, Head Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, about Black cartoonist Oliver "Ollie" Harrington (1912-1995). Harrington […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dec 7, 6:00-7:30pm Eastern time Join "Building the Book" curators Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge for a pre-recorded virtual tour of this important exhibition at the Grolier Club, followed by a live Q&A with the curators. Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day offers a […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Tues Dec 13, 6:00pm-7:30pm Eastern time Canadian scholar Robin Vose is the author of The Index of Prohibited Books, Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God (Reaktion/U. of Chicago Press). He will lecture on his research for this first comprehensive history of four […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Jan 18, 6:00-7:30pm New York time Join this virtual webcast of curator Ellen G. K. Rubin in conversation with three collectors and practitioners on movable paper works Now on view at The Grolier Club, “Animated Advertising” features over 170 unique advertising objects from 200 years that demonstrate how animated and […]
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America, The Grolier Club and others Jan 23-27 From Eric Holzenberg on the Grolier Club website: BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year at the end of January when the principal national organizations devoted to book scholarship and the book arts have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum curator Diana Seave Greenwald will discuss renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar and the book Greenwald recently edited, Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer, with contributions by Makeda Best and Stephanie Sparling Williams. Drawing on original, in-depth interviews with Saar and the companions who accompanied her on […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Feb 15, 6:30-8:00pm EST Throughout the first half of the 20th century, a literature for Yiddish-speaking children flourished on four continents. A traveling rabbi shares his Sabbath with a friendly lion; an engraved olive branch traces a century-long arc of exile and repatriation to the Holy Land; a boy tries […]
March 15 @ 6:00 pm PDT Sponsored by the Bay Area History of Medicine Society (BAHMS) and the Grolier Club Annual Joint Dinner Meeting of BAHMS and Grolier Club Time: Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 6:00 pm PT Speaker: Jeremy Norman. NB: the previously announced speaker, Dr. Steven Lomazow, is unable to attend. Location: Hong Kong […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Fri March 17, 12:00-1:00pm EST British antiquarian bookseller Oliver Darkshire will read from and discuss his book "Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller" in this virtual event. As a young man, Darkshire entered Henry Sotheran Ltd. to interview for what he thought would be a year-long […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club March 24, 9:00am-5:30pm EST Join us virtually for a full-day symposium in celebration of the "Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper" exhibition, sponsored by the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Pattern and Flow” surveys for the first time the golden age of […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club April 4, 6:00-7:30pm Children’s voices - found in diaries, manuscript newspapers, and other child-authored texts - constitute essential evidence for a fuller history of the American past, illuminating how young people encountered and interpreted their worlds. While such texts are abundant, they are not easily discoverable in archives. American Antiquarian […]