Maria Mazziot Gillan has donated her 2005 work, Japanese Women in Robes to the permanent collection of contemporary fine art at Passaic County Community College. PCCC’s collection includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works on paper by regional, national, and internationally ...
Some 20,000 articles relating to the late Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, including photographs and memos, have been unveiled online in a joint project by Kurosawa Production Co. and Kyoto’s Ryukoku University. Most of the items in the digital archives, ...
A Threefold Cord : or, A Precept, Promise, and Prayer from the Holy Scriptures : For Every Day in the Year measures just 8.1 cm high and is part of our Miniature Collection. This delightful little devotional book gives three ...
The Afghan Women’s Writing Project began as an idea during novelist Masha Hamilton’s last trip to Afghanistan in November 2008. Her interest in Afghanistan was sparked in the late 1990s during the Taliban period, when she understood it was one ...
Image courtesy of www.library.utoronto.ca/…/peacock/index.htm Alum Poet Molly Peacock will read at this year’s West Chester Poetry Conference on Friday, June 12, 2009. For program information, go to the West Chester Poetry Conference website, call (610) 436-3235 or email: poetry@wcupa.edu. The ...
Nancy Zimpher assumes her duties as the new chancellor of the State University of New York today and will host a webcast at 11 a.m. to introduce herself to everyone at the system’s 64 campuses. The webcast will be streamed ...
The Independent Third Reader: Containing Simple Illustrated Treatise on Elocution; Choice and Classified Readings; With Full Notes and a Complete Index by J. Madison Watson, American Book Company, c1880 is a text designed for instruction of elocution, pronounciation, and reading. ...
On the Edge: the Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Book Painting highlights a special collection of more than 200 high-resolution images of fore-edge paintings housed in the Rare Books Department of the Boston Public Library. A fore-edge painting is where the ...
Scope: On March 20, 2003, the United States initiated offensive military action against Iraq for the stated purpose of deposing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and preventing his use of suspected nuclear weapons (weapons of mass destruction.) British, Australian, Polish, and ...
A memorial celebration to honor the life and contributions of Kenneth C. Lindsay, professor emeritus of art history and founder of the University Art Museum, will be held Saturday, May 2, at the University Art Museum (FA-213). A reception will ...