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Grief is a woven basket but you already knew that didn't you
An exhibition by Hardy Hill presented by CASSIUS & Co. at Sotheran's Athenaeum
Recollections May Vary / An Exhibition at CASSIUS&Co.
A new exhibition about the art market in London in the early 1990s and now
The Allen Ginsberg Centenary Bookshop
A celebration of the life, works, influences, and legacy of Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation.
One Man, Fifty Thousand Butterflies: A Love Story
Obsession drives people to incredible lengths.
The Sweep of Time
The Gentle Anarchist: 2 Those of us who would like to believe that the gilding of civilisation can disguise the roughly hewn material beneath will inevitably find, time and again,...
Backward Glance: P.G. Wodehouse
A Short discussion with Graeme W.I. Davidson, P. G. Wodehouse collector, wit, and Sage of Stockbridge.
Boswell's London
At the same time as the Poet-Artists exhibition was showing in the Athenaeum, our partner gallery, CASSIUS&Co., was showing works by the famous American satirist, Robert Crumb. The exhibition was...
Poet-Artists of the French Avant-Garde: 1946 - 79
From October 2025 into 2026, we exhibited works by a range of writers, poets and artists from the French Avant-Garde between 1946-79.
Backward Glance: J.G. Ballard
A dialogue between book specialist Oriana Peckham and Fay Ballard, artist and daughter of the late J G Ballard.
Time
The Gentle Anarchist: 1 Is it possible for, say, an ageing bookseller to be anarchic in the morning?
Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Centenary Exhibition
To coincide with the centenary of the artist’s birth, Sotheran’s published a catalogue dedicated to the printed materials - cards, books, broadsides, notices and more - of the prolific Scottish artist,...
The Head of Marcel Proust
At times prosaic, at times insightful, it tracks the birth of an idea. A correspondence between Fraser Brough and Raphael Egil.