Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art is at the British Library through September 19.

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Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection is at The Wallace Collection in London through July 25.

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I was pleased to see a shelf of the DK Eyewitness children’s nonfiction series in a local bookstore; these were a fairly recent reissue, with CDs of clipart accompanying each book. (What a great feature for students who have to do reports and presentations!)
Topics of interest to readers of this blog will want to look […]

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Ming Interlude, at the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, Austria, through October 3, includes porcelain and “carved lacquerware of the finest quality.”

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Jehan Froissart, chroniqueur de la guerre de Cent Ans is at the Galerie de l’Arsenal at the Musée de l’Armée through July 4.

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One of the earliest original manuscripts of Magna Carta dating to 1217 goes on exhibition Wednesday, April 21, at The Morgan Library & Museum. This extremely rare and important document came to New York for a special event for Oxford University but could not be returned to Britain because of the disruption to air traffic […]

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