Queer art, bowler hats and an Annie Hall script: inside Diane Keaton’s archive as treasures go on sale

Photo: Nancy Reagan with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton attending movie screening for “Reds” in the family theater of the White House – December 5, 1981. Photo source: NARA (NAID: 75856537) / Reagan White House Photographs, January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989. Public Domain. Article by Paula Mejía. The Guardian – May 19, 2026.

On a recent Friday afternoon, I stood before “the wall”: a sprawling collage created by Diane Keaton. The late actor pinned objects of fascination to this collage – including snaps of herself in Parisian photo booths, a fake ear with acupuncture points, mugshots of Victorian women, bingo cards, a menu from a defunct California gambling den and a photograph she took of her friend Carol Kane – over many decades. The piece is one of Keaton’s many personal effects on view at Bonhams in West Hollywood before showing in New York later this month. […] 

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