November 17, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsCanadian makes semi-annual pilgrimage to the Ransom Center’s galleries Alain Dame may very well be the Ransom Center’s biggest fan. The letter carrier from Quebec, Canada, visits the Center about twice a year and spends days (yes, days) in the galleries exploring the exhibitions. In a scenario that exhibition curators can usually only dream about, he takes the time… read more
November 14, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events"Lisztomania" hits Austin Long before Beatlemania, mid-nineteenth-century European audiences went wild for Franz Liszt, the Hungarian pianist/composer with shoulder-length hair. Women fought over his broken piano strings and collected his coffee dregs in glass vials. One woman retrieved Liszt’s discarded cigar stump from a gutter and encased it in a diamond-studded locket monogrammed… read more
November 10, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Analyzing the fight scenes from "Raging Bull" Leger Grindon is a professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of Knockout: the Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema (University Press of Mississippi, 2011), Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History and Controversies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Shadows on… read more
November 8, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Audrey Wood collection reveals relationships between the literary agent and the playwrights she represented Milly S. Barranger, Dean at the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and Distinguished Professor Emerita at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, visited the Ransom Center in July on a fellowship funded by the Fleur Cowles Endowment to study the Audrey Wood papers for her upcoming… read more
November 3, 2011, Filed Under: PhotographyRansom Center acquires collection of contemporary tintypes The Ransom Center recently acquired ten tintype images from photographer Robb Kendrick. Tintype printing is a historical photo technique that was used primarily during the nineteenth century. The tintypes acquired are each handmade and one-of-a-kind. The acquired tintypes vary in subject matter from portraits to landscapes to cacti. Several of… read more
November 1, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: An illustrated envelope from Frank Shay’s Bookshop Frank Shay’s shop at 4 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village was a bookstore, a community gathering place, a circulating library, and a tiny publishing house all at once. Shay published a newspaper, a magazine, and more than a dozen books from the shop during his time there: small, handcrafted editions… read more
