This fall's exhibition in the Cotsen gallery will celebrate the start of a new school year at the Hogwarts campus in Princeton and the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the first volume in the Harry Potter series. Cotsen's show is not as ambitious as the blockbuster exhibition "Harry Potter: A History…
The Cotsen gallery closed in June of 2017 for our long-awaited renovation, part of the broader, multi-year Firestone Renovation Project. Our offices were temporarily located downstairs in the Rare Books & special Collections spaces, and the collections normally shelved in the gallery's "Wall of Books" were also moved into the…
This week the Cotsen curatorial blog is taking a professional day off, as all hands will be on deck during the 2019 international conference exploring how and why children's books to cross borders. The subjects will include the analysis of publishers' business models, the circulation of illustrations, genres that are…
There won’t be a post today because we’re busy unpacking the first batch of boxes!
