September 18, 2009, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsBecome a member of the Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center recently celebrated the opening of its exhibitions From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe and Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works with a reception for members. View photographs from the evening. As a member, you can enjoy a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the… read more
September 17, 2009, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsWhich biblical stories are illustrated in this fore-edge painting? Last year the Ransom Center received as a gift a bible printed in 1481, in Basel by Johan de Amerbach, that was adorned with a 19th century fore-edge painting by bibliophile John T. Beer. The scene is described in a checklist of Beer’s fore-edge paintings simply as “A scene on… read more
September 15, 2009, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsHow do you make the world go ’round? The Ransom Center’s Coronelli Celestial globe (ca. 1688) is almost five feet high and depicts several constellations labeled in Italian and Latin. To coincide with the current exhibition, Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works, the technology and digital services department developed a virtual model of the globe for our website. Photographer… read more
September 10, 2009, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsResearch at the Ransom Center: Terrence McNally’s connections By Raymond-Jean Frontain What brings people to the theater, a speaker explains in “Hidden Agendas”—a sketch that Terrence McNally wrote in the early 1990s in response to a censorship crisis at the National Endowment for the Arts—is “the expectation that the miracle of communication will take place. […] Words, sounds,… read more
September 10, 2009, Filed Under: Theatre + Performing ArtsPlaywright Terrence McNally’s connections Four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally is a frequent focus of theater news these days.
September 8, 2009, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsFrom the Galleries: Poe in popular culture Poe’s influence on varied and broad swaths of popular culture—hard-boiled detective fiction, horror and suspense films, song lyrics, crime-scene-analysis dramas, graphic novels—seems to prove Allen Ginsberg’s claim that “everything leads to Poe.” Immortalized in the minds of readers and fans—as well as in television, film, t-shirts, and collectibles—Poe continues to… read more
