February 26, 2019, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsFree daily tours of The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America Tour The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America Through July 14, 2019
February 25, 2019, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, PhotographyArctic Passage On March 12, award-winning photographer and documentary filmmaker Louie Palu will install a series of photographs frozen in large ice blocks on the Ransom Center’s plaza. The photographs were made in the high Arctic over three years while Palu was on assignment for National Geographic. View the free installation, part… read more
February 25, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA very Texan story: Shelby Hearon writes Barbara Jordan’s biography People always want you to be born where you are. They want you to have leaped from the womb a public figure. It just doesn’t go that way. I am the composite of my experience and all the people who had something to do with it. And I’m going to… read more
February 19, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingAmerican publishing during the Cold War In Amanda Laugesen’s new book, the novel is an object of war. In Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), Laugesen tells the story of Franklin Publications, a publishing company created in 1952 as a joint project between American publishers… read more
February 4, 2019, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingBorn to be posthumous: An interview with cultural critic Mark Dery Critics never quite knew what to make of Edward Gorey (1925-2000), the author and illustrator whose darkly droll tales have influenced Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, Alison Bechdel, and Guillermo Del Toro.
February 1, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingThe companion of the dead Celebrating Mary Shelley at the 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein
