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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dec 7, 6:00-7:30pm, Eastern time A Virtual Tour of “Building the Book From the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press.” Join “Building the Book” curators Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge for a pre-recorded […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club About this event An international scholarly collaboration, the “From Jikji to Gutenberg” project will culminate in publications and exhibitions related to the origins of printing from cast-metal type, commemorating the 650th anniversary of the Korean printed book “Jikji.” Speakers will include Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club About this event Join us for two illustrated talks by the Curators of our “Aubrey Beardsley: 150 Years Young” exhibition, on view in our second floor gallery through November 12: “In Bed with Beardsley,” by Margaret Stetz; and “Beardsleyophily,” by Mark Samuels Lasner. Register here: […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Symposium on the themes of the Rare Book School exhibition, “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School & the Book Arts Press,” running in The Grolier Club’s ground-floor exhibition hall from September 28 through December […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club About this event Leonard Marcus will give a lecture on “The Modernist in the Nursery: How Author/Illustrator Dorothy Kunhardt Made the Picture Book New,” Best known for Pat the Bunny (1940), Dorothy Kunhardt turned the children’s publishing world on its ear as the creator of […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Oct 17, 6:00pm New York time About this event A talk by Grolier Club member Frank H. Wu, president of Queens College and distinguished law professor, scholar and author, on his collection of anti-Asian propaganda, with examples on hand. This will be a live online […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Sept 12, 12:00-1:30 New York time Zoom tour of this exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum. About this event A Zoom tour of “Finding Nura: Rediscovering an American Modernist from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection,” on display at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture […]