STILL SHOWING: ‘Art on paper since 1960: the Hamish Parker collection’ at the @britishmuseum (until 5 March 2023), featuring life drawings, portraits & large minimalist prints.
Photo: #TiffanyChung, 'UNHCR Red Dot Series tracking the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis April-Dec 2012'
In our admittedly limited hierarchies of art materials and mediums, paper isn’t always ranked among the most scintillating. But a new book proves that the art of paper can be a page-turner. https://t.co/BJir8b5kud
if you are interested in finding and participating in an analog community, consider contributing to Ephemerata, a collaborative letterzine edited by @plaguelibrarian with contributions by book historians, archivists, librarians, booksellers & others. dm Joe for details.
Just a heads up that the hybrid (Zoom-Mtl) event "Fabricating Reams with Papeterie Saint Armand" is happening on Dec 13 -- organized by @McGill_ROAAr
>> https://t.co/7SKmgL2lFj
Raymond Queneau, One Hundred Million Million Poems, English translation by John Crombie, Kickshaws Press, France, 1983. Originally Cent mille milliards de poèmes, 1961.
Dans les rues de Rome au 16e siècle on pouvait acheter de quoi manger, prier, se chauffer, ressemeler ses chaussures, mais aussi des roses, des clefs, des tortues... Et de quoi lire et écrire.
Petit 🧶 à dérouler sur la place du papier dans la rue à la Renaissance ⤵️ 1/
Twelve playing cards that an English privateer seized from French ships that were smuggling brandy in 1744. Sets of cards like these are common in the Prize Papers, but we never have a full deck. Why should this be the case? It turns out that they were not used for gaming /1
🧻 « Paperoles » : un ajout rédigé sur papier et collé à un manuscrit.
Les manuscrits de Marcel Proust, au cœur de l’#ExpoProustBnF https://t.co/EFRRG35p6n, sont truffés de « paperoles » - la plus longue mesure près de deux mètres !
Pour en savoir plus : https://t.co/BVmTKJPa5R
@GrovePressUK@AtlanticBooks@vintagebooks The Library: Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
A wonderfully absorbing and wide-ranging account of the rise and fall, creation, and dispersal of libraries from Greek and Roman times to the present day
#HWACrowns22
World premiere! As part of our exhibition "Captured" & in collaboration with @letterlocking & @ghilondon, we are hosting an online event on 28 Oct. at 3pm on the Sjælland Letters, a letter collection @UkNatArchives showing unique letterlocking techniques
https://t.co/NHDqHVFznp