Ransom Center Magazine

About Christine Lee

Lee managed marketing and membership initiatives at the Ransom Center, which included branding, graphic design, advertising, and promotional partnerships. She also assisted with the visitor services volunteer program.

How a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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“It has been said that loneliness is the great American malady. What is the nature of this loneliness? It would seem essentially to be a quest for identity.”—Carson McCullers’s essay “The Nature of Loneliness”

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Member Profile: Susan Scafati

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We are pleased to share our interview with Ransom Center member Susan Scafati, an Austin-based, American contemporary artist. She is a member of Lakes Were Rivers, an artist collective showcased in the Ransom Center’s 2013 exhibition Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive.  [Read more…] about Member Profile: Susan Scafati

A touch of illusion… and sprinkle of paprika

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The Harry Ransom Center partnered with Central Market to present “Dining with Harry Houdini,” a cooking class inspired by the life of the legendary performer and stage illusionist, on Sunday, October 16, 2016. [Read more…] about A touch of illusion… and sprinkle of paprika

Shop for merchandise inspired by Frank Reaugh exhibition

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 “Frank Reaugh was the most improbable of artists, a European-trained Impressionist whose entire oeuvre was devoted to Longhorn cattle and the West Texas landscape.” –Ron Tyler, “Foreword”

 

Enjoy a deeper look into Reaugh’s work with Windows on the West: The Art of Frank Reaugh, the companion publication edited by Ransom Center Curator of Art Peter F. Mears. This hard-back publication features in-depth essays from four contributors and more than 100 images that exemplify Frank Reaugh’s life’s work. [Read more…] about Shop for merchandise inspired by Frank Reaugh exhibition

Thanks, y’all! “West by Southwest” Party Round-Up

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Thanks to the support of our members and sponsors, “West by Southwest,” the opening party for Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West, was a great success.

This past Friday, guests enjoyed a Western evening with Texas Country music from Glen Collins and [Read more…] about Thanks, y’all! “West by Southwest” Party Round-Up