Teresa Jaynes’ new book, The Last Favour, is finally done! It is the product of a collaboration between the Rosenbach, the Borowsky Center at the University of the Arts, and Teresa herself. It began as an installation at the Rosenbach called Red Maids that Teresa did at the Rosenbach back in 2000 as part of …
The Rosenbach’s contribution to Philadelphia’s 215 Festival this year was a special tour called “What Would Dylan Thomas Do?” …if the joke of the title was ever funny (doubtful), it was funny back in the days of the What Would Jesus Do bracelet. But the people who came for the tours didn’t really care about …
Our exhibitions have changed over for the season–not just the new Drawn Together, which is in the main gallery in the Sendak building, but also the selection of objects in the highlights gallery, the partner desk in the Doctor’s library, the dining room table, and the Marianne Moore Room vestibule. [The radio you see here–a …
This week we said goodbye, for a little while, to some of our great Ben Franklin things to be featured in the great BF300 fooferaw soon to overtake the city. This image comes from what is arguably our greatest Franklin item and one of the greatest items in the museum–the only surviving copy of the …
This story on the BBC web site is about the British Library’s digitization of the famous MS of Alice’s Adventures Underground as part of its remarkable “Turn the Page” program. They don’t mention the facts that seem so pertinent to us–that the manuscript was not so important to the British Library in 1928 when Dr. …
Marianne Moore fans will recognize the poem title, but it turns out that there is at least one Moore scholar living in Mosul, Iraq–which is the site of ancient Nineveh. A few months ago the following email was forwarded to us: Several years ago, I had some correspondence with a woman who signed her letters …
Are you a member of the Rosenbach? Well then you’re invited to join us at an opening reception to preview our newest exhibition, Drawn Together: Two Albums of Renaissance Drawings by Girolamo da Carpi. This is the first-ever exhibition of its kind, featuring drawings from the collections of both the Rosenbach and the British Museum. …
Yesterday we had several bits of Marianne Moore news–these things tend to come in groups. First, we got our copy of Cristanne Miller’s new book, Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schuler, published by U. Michigan Press. Then Vivian Pollack sent us an offprint of her recent article on Sylvia Plath and …
On Friday night, much of the United States saw a 20/20 Episode called “The Summer of the Vampire,” in which the Rosenbach played a starring role. The episode looked into the backstory of the new bestselling novel The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. The central issue–whether Bram Stoker wrote Dracula with Vlad Dracula a/k/a Vlad the …
Melissa Mandell, our long-suffering Office Manager, defender of the weak and powerless and sworn enemy of telephone customer service runaround, is leaving today. Pictured here helping Facilities Manager Jim Manzella with a fancy new backpack, she has been at the RML for nearly four years, lasting through many staff reorganizations, office rearrangements, new calendar schemes, …