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 […]
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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 […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Oct 3, 6:00-8:00pm New York time Jane Lahr, Michael Hearn, and Stephen Schwarz will present on “The Books of Oz.” About this event Presentations by Jane Lahr, author, editor, literary agent and daughter of Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in the film version […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club A talk exploring the life, work, and home of lexicographer Samuel Johnson by Celine Luppo McDaid, for the past decade Donald Hyde Curator and Director of Dr. Johnson’s House in London. McDaid is responsible for managing the only UK museum dedicated to the history of […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Allen Ellenzweig will speak on photographer George Lynes. September 20, 6:00pm New York time About this event Virtual talk by Allen Ellenzweig, author of George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye [Oxford]. Lynes (1907-1955) was the lover of, and collaborator with, Grolier Council member Monroe Wheeler, an exhibition […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Nick Fry will give an online lecture on “Tycoons: Men, Money and Monuments.” A Zoom talk by Nicholas Fry, curator of “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons,” on “Tycoons: Men, Money and Monuments.” Offered in connection with the exhibition “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier Club member Mary Catherine “MC” Kinniburgh, currently at Granary Books (a NYC-based rare book and archives dealer, and independent publisher), and creator of her own small editions of artists’ books under the imprint TKS, will explore how the characteristics of 20th-century counterculture poets’ libraries […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Held in conjunction with the Grolier Club’s current public exhibition “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life,” running in the ground-floor exhibit hall through July 30, this will be a Zoom talk by the exhibition’s co-curator and Grolier member Nicholas Fry. Organized […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Nick Fry will give an online lecture on “Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads.” About this event Nicholas Fry, curator of “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons,” will speak on “Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads.” His presentation will show the portrayal of […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club The panel will offer a conversation about Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger, explorers and photographers “At the Edge.” A conversation between exhibition curator Dr. Roger Härtl and other experts about two explorers, authors and photographers “At The Edge.” Sella and Thesiger wandered the world at […]