January 6, 2012, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsOnly three days left to see Frida Kahlo’s "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) is on display for only three more days at the Harry Ransom Center. This Sunday is the last day visitors can view the work before it travels to its next destination. The painting, one of the Ransom Center’s most famous… read more
December 15, 2011, Filed Under: Authors, Photography, Theatre + Performing ArtsAn iconic photographic moment with Spalding Gray Who was Spalding Gray? Fans have debated this question for years, as Gray was a pioneer in blurring the line between real life and theater in his autobiographical and often very personal monologues. He left audiences wondering how much of the stage persona was the real Gray and how much… read more
November 22, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Censorship of "The Sex Side of Life" In 1919 Mary Ware Dennett (1872–1947) published The Sex Side of Life, a sex-education pamphlet for young people that she originally wrote for her sons. The U.S. Post Office declared the pamphlet obscene in April 1922, and Dennett struggled on her own to get the ruling reversed, all the while… read more
