July 16, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsIn the galleries: A page from the first draft of Don DeLillo’s "Underworld" Don DeLillo once noted in an interview, “The significance of baseball, more than other sports, lies in the very nature of the game—slow and spread out and rambling. It’s a game of history and memory, a kind of living archive.” DeLillo explored those aspects of the sport in his 1997… read more
July 11, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the galleries: Jason Reed’s "Motel, Terlingua" and W. D. Smithers’s "View of Study Butte, Texas" As photographer Jason Reed sat in the reading room of the Ransom Center, awaiting a box of Walker Evans photographs, he noticed a binder on the reference shelf nearby. In what he calls a “moment of coincidence,” he picked it up and discovered notes and captions describing photographs of West… read more
July 10, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingRansom Center acquires papers of writer Barbara Probst Solomon The Ransom Center has acquired the archive of Barbara Probst Solomon, a prolific writer and chronicler of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, published books, first drafts, interviews, documentaries, and photographs. Solomon’s career as a writer began shortly after her graduation from Dalton High School in New… read more
July 9, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the galleries: Alvin Langdon Coburn’s "Vortograph" and Barry Stone’s "Sky 3099" Although almost a century separates Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Vortograph (1917) and Barry Stone’s Sky 3099 (2012), Stone still finds parallels between the works. It is this connection between old and new that informs the Ransom Center’s current exhibition, Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive. Created in conjunction with the Lakes… read more
July 3, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingArchivist traces manuscript waste in a set of volumes back to a dark origin in Frankfurt It was a bitterly cold day in Frankfurt when my wife and I stepped off the plane. Being from Texas, we quickly found that our bodies were not acclimated to the bitter winter winds of Europe. Our cab dropped us off near the central square of the city so we… read more
June 27, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsAnthology documents 22 plays performed at 2 London theaters Sarah Alger is a graduate student in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is working to complete her degree with an emphasis in Museum Studies. As part of her class “Rare Books and Special Collections”, taught by Michael Laird, Ms. Alger studied… read more
