September 10, 2009, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsResearch at the Ransom Center: Terrence McNally’s connections By Raymond-Jean Frontain What brings people to the theater, a speaker explains in “Hidden Agendas”—a sketch that Terrence McNally wrote in the early 1990s in response to a censorship crisis at the National Endowment for the Arts—is “the expectation that the miracle of communication will take place. […] Words, sounds,… read more
November 1, 2007, Filed Under: UncategorizedInsider’s Perspective: The Ransom Center in literature In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Ransom Center has published Collecting the Imagination: The First Fifty Years of the Ransom Center, a richly illustrated chronicle of its history. The following is an excerpt from Collecting the Imagination.
October 1, 2007, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyItems from Dress Up: Portrait and Performance in Victorian Photography Julia Margaret Cameron (English, 1815-1879) The Rising of the New Year, 1872 Albumen print Julia Margaret Cameron did not take up photography until she was 48 and the last of her children had left for college. Over the next 14 years she made over 1,200 images. She promoted her photography… read more
