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
July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmCelebrating the films of the First World War The Harry Ransom Center’s current exhibition The World at War, 1914–1918 marks the centennial anniversary of the start of World War I. “The war to end all wars,” as it was optimistically dubbed, was one of the deadliest conflicts in history and paved the way for cultural and political change… read more
July 3, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Early recordings show how performance artist Spalding Gray developed his signature style Ira S. Murfin is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Theatre & Drama at Northwestern University. He received a dissertation research fellowship from the Ransom Center to work in the Spalding Gray collection, investigating the early development of Gray’s influential autobiographical monologues for his dissertation on the… read more
July 1, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsTwo interactive activities added to The World at War: 1914-1918 Two new interactive activities—an audio tour and a passport project—are now available for visitors to the exhibition The World at War, 1914–1918. Daniel Carter, a PhD student in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin who researches how people interact with cultural objects, facilitated the pilot… read more
June 26, 2014, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsTexas collection of comedias sueltas and Spanish theater available for research and in online database The Texas Collection of Comedias Sueltas and Spanish Theater is available for research. Individual records for each suelta are also available in an online database, providing extensive information about the collection. The collection includes more than 15,000 “comedias sueltas,” a generic term for plays published in small pamphlet format in… read more
June 24, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsAlan Furst’s “Midnight in Europe” now available Alan Furst, a New York Times bestselling author whose archive resides at the Harry Ransom Center, recently published his latest novel Midnight in Europe. Furst is widely recognized for his historical espionage novels set in the World War II era. His 2008 novel, The Spies of Warsaw, was adapted… read more
