Museum Enthusiasts, this one is for you! Join author Bob Eckstein as he celebrates the book birthday of his most recent release, "Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums". This book is filled with lush and whimsical illustrations paired with stories and anecdotes from curators, museum workers, museum visitors, and more. We hope you can join us for what will be a fun and fascinating conversation!

About the Book:

Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums is a collection of the greatest and most beloved museums of North America, illustrated and explored through fun and fascinating anecdotes. Curated by Bob Eckstein, author of the New York Times bestseller Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores, this delightful twist on an art history book shows these institutes in a way not seen before, illustrated in a lush and idealized style.

The 75+ museums featured include the biggest and boldest names (MoMA, the Whitney) and the more offbeat (Museum of Bad Art, the Museum of Jurassic Technology). They span the US, Canada, and Mexico and include those specializing in art, natural history, academia and science, and more. The 155 original pieces of artwork illustrate a story about the museum or showcase a particular work of art in its collection.

About Bob:

I'm an illustrator, cartoonist, writer and snowman expert. I've done cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. In 2016 Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores (Penguin Random House) was published, which became a NY Times bestseller. In 2018, The Illustrated History of the Snowman by Globe Pequot was published along with a postcard set called World's Greatest Bookstores: 100 Postcards by Clarkson Potter of Penguin Random House. My work has been exhibited in: The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institute, The Cartoon Museum of London and in 2018, The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University. I've been nominated Gag Cartoonist of the Year (twice) by the National Cartoonists Society.

I have written columns, Op-Eds and features for: New Yorker, New York Times, New York Daily News, NY Newsday, Reader's Digest, SPY, Playboy, Details, GQ, MAXIM, National Lampoon, Village Voice, and McSweeney's. I am a Contributing Editor at Writer's Digest.

I have been speaking publicly against online shopping to raise awareness for independent bookstores. I taught at NYU, Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts for a dozen years. My last book was The Complete Book of Cat Names (That Your Cat Won't Answer to, Anyways) and my newest book is Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums. I am host of The Cartoon Pad and creates the popular Substack newsletter, The Bob. Follow me on Twitter at @BobEckstein and Instagram at bob_eckstein.

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We're thrilled to be collaborating with a multitude of MA Libraries to bring this program to our communities.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library.

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