08/20/2002. NEW YORK.- The Swiss Institute announced the exhibition of Swiss novelist, journalist and photographer, Annemarie Schwarzenbach. This exhibition, curated by Barbara Lorey de Lacharriere, comprises Schwarzenbach’s work made during the years 1...

11/13/2006. HANOVER, N.H.- The Hood Museum of Art has invited bestselling author Jonathan Harr to speak on Wednesday, November 15, about his book The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Random House, 2005). This program coincides with ...

06/07/2012. WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art opens it s summer exhibition schedule on the evening of June 7, 2012 with Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey. Gorey is among the rare bre...

10/10/2014. France's Patrick Modiano won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for his enigmatic novels rooted in the trauma of the Nazi occupation and his own loveless childhood. One of France's most celebrated writers, the 69-year-old father of two, known ...

10/06/2015. Best-selling Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, whose detective character Kurt Wallander became a worldwide phenomenon, has died at 67 after a battle with cancer. Mankell, who first revealed he had cancer in January last year, "died in his slee...

12/10/2015. By day, Judy Penz Sheluk immerses herself in the stylish world of antiques and architectural journalism as senior editor of New England Antiques Journal and editor of Home BUILDER Magazine. ...

01/14/2017. William Peter Blatty, the author of the novel "The Exorcist" and writer of its Oscar-winning big-screen adaptation, has died aged 89, the director of the iconic horror movie announced Friday. Blatty wrote several books but his signature achievemen...

08/15/2017. Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest (est. $30,000) is expected to be the leading feature in The KoKo Collection, part of the September 14 Rare Books Auction at Heritage Auctions. Drawing on his experience as...

08/18/2017. The New-York Historical Society celebrates the late photographer Editta Sherman (1912–2013) with a special exhibition of her celebrity portraits, to be shown in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’...

07/12/2018. Ingmar Bergman, one of the most distinguished filmmakers of his generation whose melancholic work is often tough-to-digest but celebrated, still captivates audiences as much as he puts off his critics. July 14 would have been his 100th birthday. ...

08/21/2018. Dusk settled on Sainte-Cecile square and the oil lanterns cast a soft yellow light as a storyteller took to the stage and bound the audience with a magic spell of words. The tale was about a naughty little girl who disobeys her parents and whistle...

02/05/2019. A thoroughly entertaining exploration, this book travels back in time to shed light on the snowman's enigmatic past -- from the present day, in which the snowman reigns as the King of Kitsch, to the Dark Ages, with the creation of the very first snow...

03/06/2019. A treasure trove of the near-complete first edition run of a Beatrix Potter tale will be auctioned on March 22 at Ewbank’s in Surrey, UK. The author wrote The Tale of The Faithful ...

03/17/2019. In Rome 1970s (Daylight, June 2019) photographer Stephan Brigidi captures everyday life in Italy, focusing on Rome, during a time when the countr...

06/08/2019. Ismail Kadare draws the curtain to bring a shaft of light into the Tirana apartment where he wrote furiously during the dark days of communism -- a space visitors can now explore first-hand after his former home was turned into a museum. "I worke...