by CATHY WHITLOCK The following is an excerpt from Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction, Cathy Whitlock ©2010 HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with permission.
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Lois Kim Appointed Chief Development Officer for the Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has selected Lois Kim to lead its comprehensive development program aimed at advancing the Center’s strategic initiatives.
The Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse
by HANNAH NEUHAUSER In the 1980s, the Harry Ransom Center received a scrapbook from John and Vera Hills along with an extraordinary unpublished account of their survival of the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapse in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 1922. The scrapbook and testimony are available for research in the… read more
On the Record: Black Creators and the Jazz Age
Exhibition organized by Harry Ransom Center graduate research assistants sheds light on black creators from the collections whose work exemplifies the spirit and history of jazz. The music of saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, photographs of jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday and saxophonist Dexter Gordon, a jazz-inspired essay by Langston… read more
Ransom Center experience leads to new challenge
What Monte Monreal will remember most about his time at the Harry Ransom Center isn’t so much the complexities of the Gutenberg Bible or Anne Sexton’s drafts for “Flee on Your Donkey,” although those items are two of his favorites in the collection. Instead, it’s the people. “Broadly, any time… read more
Films represented in the Drawing the Motion Picture exhibition
Many Hollywood classics are featured in the Ransom Center’s Drawing the Motion Picture: Production Art and Storyboards exhibition. Produced by Robert De Niro Curator of Film Steve Wilson, the exhibition reveals behind-the-scenes stories of some of the biggest films in more than 100 years of cinema history through the artworks… read more