September 28, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsHoudini speaks to the living The trick is to bring Houdini back. Show him to us. Let us hear him speak, watch him make his magic, feel his presence among us, let Houdini live again!
September 26, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + EventsPolitics, perception, and precious details: Q&A with poet Naomi Shihab Nye Award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye reads from her work for the Ransom Center’s 2016 Burnshaw Lecture.
September 23, 2016, Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyElliott Erwitt: Home Around the World / Un hogar en todo el laboratorio Durante la planeación de exhibiciones en el Harry Ransom Center, los curadores seleccionan los materiales que consideran más relevantes en las colecciones y que, a su vez, mejor se relacionan con los temas de cada muestra. Posteriormente los restauradores evalúan la condición física de todos los objetos seleccionados, con el… read more
September 22, 2016, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsHoudini: Illusionist and collector This Halloween marks the ninetieth anniversary of the death of the great illusionist Harry Houdini. Born Ehrich Weisz in Budapest in 1874, he got his start as a trapeze artist before turning his attention to magic. He took the name Houdini after the popular French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. When Houdini… read more
September 20, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching“Life on Mars?”: That is the question for David Bowie, H. G. Wells, and NASA Responding to news of the singer’s passing in January 2016, the official NASA twitter account tweeted “Rest in peace, David Bowie. ‘And the stars look very different today.’” For Bowie, one of humankind’s hitherto unanswered questions was
September 20, 2016, Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyElliott Erwitt: Home around the lab During exhibition planning at the Harry Ransom Center, conservators assess all objects the curators have chosen for display. Conservators evaluate the condition of
