Work has finally been completed on ‘Delos’, the Greek-inspired garden at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, realising a planting scheme first envisioned by the English poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West more than 90 years ago.

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens today in London as the world’s largest space dedicated to illustration with a range of free displays.  Situated at the base of the historic Dunard Engine House, the UK’s first dedicated public illustration library also includes space where…

Highlights of New York City Circa 1960: Works From the Collection of Robert A. Ellison Jr. at the Schoelkopf Gallery in New York include a group of letters, postcards, telegrams, and public statements documenting the 1959 controversy surrounding a nude painting by…

Christie’s will run the last offering in its The Jim Irsay Collection: Icons of History auction series next month with a final group of objects from the personal collection of the late philanthropist and owner of the Indianapolis Colts.  Highlights include:

Leading RR Auction’s upcoming Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is an extensive archive of top-secret operational battle directives issued by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery during the Allied liberation of Europe between May 1944 and June 1945. Preserved from the personal files of Major-…

As part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations the Library of Congress is adding key historic texts to the America250 Time Capsule The tiny metal vial will hold synthetic DNA encoded with digital copies from the library’s collections, and will be buried at Independence National…

A signed leaf page by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand from Atlas Shrugged, a limited edition first offprint of Nature signed by DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick, and a 1919 document written and signed at the Kremlin by Vladimir Lenin lead University Archives’ online Rare…

A pristine first edition paperback copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has set a new world record selling for £17,000 at Rare Book Auctions.The book, which would have cost £4.99 when published, was kept unread in a loft for almost 30 years and had an estimate of £7,000-£…

Heritage Auctions' June 5–6 Pulp Magazines sale will feature an exceptionally rare color variant of Weird Tales No. 1 from March 1923, and a Doc Savage No. 1 from March 1933.Other highlights include:

Rain is the subject of the National Library of Scotland’s forthcoming major exhibition including a copy of 18th century Scottish scientist James Hutton’s Theory of Rain and rain in the poetry of Robert Burns.