March 27, 2017, Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsThe life of a dance costume, from the inside out A costume worn for the Ballets Russes’s production of Narcisse, currently on display in the exhibition Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, presents an intriguing glimpse into behind-the-scenes work at the dance company that electrified pre-World War I audiences in Europe and beyond.
March 23, 2017, Filed Under: Meet the StaffProposed NEA, NEH funding cuts will directly impact Austin Stephen Enniss, Director of the Harry Ransom Center, shared his thoughts about the proposed elmination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in an opinion editorial in the Austin American-Statesman. Below is the piece that ran on March 10.
March 21, 2017, Filed Under: Research + TeachingMeet Andi Gustavson, Instructional Services Coordinator Andi Gustavson is the Instructional Services Coordinator at the Harry Ransom Center. She works with educators to collaboratively design and teach lessons that use collection materials.
March 21, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Digital CollectionsI shout for a flower An undeniable source of pleasure in archives is the appearance of a writer’s doodles in the margins of books and manuscripts. As we’ve digitized García Márquez’s papers for his online archive
March 15, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Elizabeth Olds’s quest for honest American art Elizabeth Olds (1896–1991) was the first woman visual artist to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1926 to advance her study of portraiture.
March 6, 2017, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing ArtsPapers of actors Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson acquired The Ransom Center has acquired the papers of actors, and husband and wife, Eli Wallach (1915–2014) and Anne Jackson (1925–2016).
