William Sartain, after Thomas Phillips, Portrait of Byron, 1868, Mezzotint, The Print Collection of the New York Public Library. “Byron: A Life in Motion,” at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A.
The year 2024 marks Surrealism’s centenary: André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism was published in October 1924, and a copy of the book features in the massive show celebrating the movement at ...
The first diary entry Thom Gunn (1929–2004) ever made was dated December 29, 1944: “Mother died at 4.0 A.M, Friday.” Gunn was fifteen and living in the affluent North London district of Hampstead with ...