February 8, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingJorge Luis Borges muses on his desert island book selections Ever since Daniel Defoe set the paradigm for the shipwreck in Robinson Crusoe, desert-island lists have remained a popular setting for apocalyptic scenario decisions. Considering the books he would choose should he suffer the fate of the character, the poet André Gide included Cousin Bette, Dangerous Liaisons, and Madame Bovary. Faced… read more
February 1, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsOpening today: View video preview of "Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-First Century" Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-First Century can be seen in the Ransom Center Galleries on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended Thursday hours to 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on… read more
February 1, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsOpening today: View video preview for "Becoming Tennessee Williams" Becoming Tennessee Williams can be seen in the Ransom Center Galleries on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended Thursday hours to 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays.
January 31, 2011, Filed Under: Digital Collections, PhotographyDigital collection highlights photos taken in Corpus Christi during Great Depression The Ransom Center has made available online the digital collection “The Itinerant Photographer: Photographs of Corpus Christi Businesses in the 1930s.” The collection highlights photographs taken of businesses in Corpus Christi during the Great Depression. The project to make these materials accessible online was funded by a TexTreasures grant from… read more
January 26, 2011, Filed Under: Art, PhotographyPlate painted by Pablo Picasso donated to Ransom Center by photojournalist Duncan The Ransom Center has received a plate painted by Pablo Picasso from David Douglas Duncan, a photojournalist whose archive resides at the Ransom Center. Duncan donated the plate in honor of his friendship with Stanley Marcus, who suggested that Duncan donate his archive to the Ransom Center in 1996. The… read more
January 20, 2011, Filed Under: Cataloging, ConservationRansom Center receives $10,000 grant to catalog collection of science materials The Ransom Center has received a $10,000 grant from the Friends of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics to rehouse and rearrange its holdings of the Herschel family papers and to create an online finding aid. The Herschel family papers, acquired in 1960 with… read more
