The exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America opens today at the Harry Ransom Center. Running through January 6, 2013, the exhibition explores the life and career of American stage and industrial designer, futurist, and urban planner Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958). Read what T Magazine, the… read more
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New book “Masterclass: Arnold Newman” is released today
In February 2013, the Harry Ransom Center will host the first U.S. showing of the exhibition Arnold Newman: Masterclass, a posthumous retrospective of photographer Arnold Newman (1918–2006). The exhibition was organized by the American nonprofit organization Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) in collaboration with the Ransom Center. The… read more
Iain Sinclair’s "Ghost Milk" includes visit to Austin
Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Olympics (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), the latest work by British writer-filmmaker Iain Sinclair, explores the changes in East London as the city prepared for the 2012 Olympics and concludes with his visit to the… read more
Research fellowships in the humanities
The Harry Ransom Center is now receiving applications for its 2013–2014 research fellowships in the humanities. The application deadline is February 1, 2013. Information about the fellowships and the application process is available online. More than 50 fellowships in the humanities are awarded annually by the Ransom Center to support… read more
Phil Patton offers reading recommendations relating to “Visions of the Future”
In conjunction with the exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, the Harry Ransom Center hosts “Visions of the Future,” the tenth biennial Flair Symposium. The Flair Symposium honors the ideals set forth by Fleur Cowles and her landmark Flair magazine. From November 1-3, the Ransom… read more
Editor recounts working with David Foster Wallace on 1996 U.S. Open piece
In 1995, Jay Jennings, a former editor of Tennis magazine, commissioned David Foster Wallace to write an article about the U.S. Open, which was published as “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open” one year later. In 2010, Jennings contributed a file of corrected proofs and correspondence to the… read more