March 8, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1On 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
February 28, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1, Meet the StaffRansom 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
February 10, 2023, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, FilmFilms 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
December 31, 2022, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, FilmCelebrate with us in 2023 In 2022, friends of the Ransom Center, along with Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, and Leonard Maltin, celebrated our 65th anniversary, establishing an endowment to fund the Robert De Niro Curator of Film position and advancing understanding of the humanities through the Center’s extraordinary film collection.
December 5, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, PhotographyPhotographer Laura Wilson delves into the lives of writers with stunning portraits Off the Page by LAURA WILSON In late fall of 2008, I met John Updike and liked him—And thought then I’d like to do a portrait of him. But I dithered, and he died the following January before I had the chance. Earlier, I had seen some photographs taken by… read more
December 5, 2022, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1A childhood gift inspires a lifelong passion for India and map-collecting Charting a Path Sixty maps and other prints of South Asia and the surrounding region have recently arrived at the Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin in honor of former professor Susan G. Hadden. Generously donated by her husband, James Hadden, Jr., the newly acquired Susan G.… read more
