January 11, 2019, Filed Under: PhotographyArchive examines creative process in photography More than 35 years ago, prominent artists Robert Frank, Dave Heath, Robert Heinecken and John Wood agreed to participate in a project exploring creativity in photography. Led by art historians Susan E. Cohen and William S. Johnson, the three-year collaborative project examined the artists’ creative process . Until now, no comprehensive… read more
January 10, 2019, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingMad Men archive open for research The archive of the television show Mad Men is open for research at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Researchers will have access to the creation and production history of the series’ 92 hourlong episodes.
January 3, 2019, Filed Under: Featured1Papers of LGBT pioneers to be digitized The Ransom Center will digitize the papers of British author Radclyffe Hall and partner, artist Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge, thanks to a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. More than 38,500 images from their papers will be digitized and made available online following the… read more
December 17, 2018, Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1Tools of the trade Conservators Olivia Primanis and Kimberly Kwan of the book and paper lab and Diana Diaz of the photography lab talk about the tools that make their work possible, from the esoteric and vintage to the commonplace and modern.
December 13, 2018, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, PhotographyTraces of the Artist in the Exhibition Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance Driving along Route 66 in 1962, Ed Ruscha pulled over at the Jack Rabbit Trading Post just outside Joseph City, Arizona.
December 10, 2018, Filed Under: FilmBig swagger, little song As a native Texan, Aaron Latham knows a thing or two about swagger.
