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 […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club April 5, 6:00-7:30pm EST Join this Zoom event for a virtual pre-recorded tour of the "Pattern and Flow" exhibition followed by a live Q&A. “Pattern and Flow” surveys for the first time the golden age of American decorated paper, telling the story of 53 imaginative and innovative artists who, working […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join Curator Eve Kahn for a pre-recorded virtual tour of "Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia," followed by a live Q&A. “To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia,” runs in the 2nd-floor gallery of The Grolier Club through May 13, 2023. Norris (1860-1914) […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier member David Alan Richards (Stamford, CT), retired lawyer and literary, social, and legal historian, will give an illustrated talk on his new book from Oak Knoll Press, "I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library, 1656-2022." This is the first history to be written of a library […]