July 15, 2014, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Determining audience taste in eighteenth-century English theater Diana Solomon, associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University, worked with the Ransom Center’s collections of eighteenth-century English playbills and promptbooks. Jointly supported by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the British Studies Fellowship, her research will be utilized in her current book project on comedy and repetition… read more
July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsHigh Museum of Art’s “Dream Cars” exhibition features drawings, designs from Norman Bel Geddes collection “We dream of cars that will float or fly, or run on energy from a laser beam, or travel close to the ground without wheels. Such research may border on the fantastic, but so did the idea of a carriage going about the country without a horse.” –The Ford Book… read more
July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsNow open at the Wolfsonian: “I Have Seen The Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America” The exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America is now open at the Wolfsonian at Florida International University in Miami Beach, Florida. Pulled mostly from the Ransom Center’s Bel Geddes archive, the exhibition originated in fall 2012 at the Ransom Center and was on view earlier… read more
