July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsHigh Museum of Art’s “Dream Cars” exhibition features drawings, designs from Norman Bel Geddes collection “We dream of cars that will float or fly, or run on energy from a laser beam, or travel close to the ground without wheels. Such research may border on the fantastic, but so did the idea of a carriage going about the country without a horse.” –The Ford Book… read more
July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsNow open at the Wolfsonian: “I Have Seen The Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America” The exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America is now open at the Wolfsonian at Florida International University in Miami Beach, Florida. Pulled mostly from the Ransom Center’s Bel Geddes archive, the exhibition originated in fall 2012 at the Ransom Center and was on view earlier… read more
July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmCelebrating the films of the First World War The Harry Ransom Center’s current exhibition The World at War, 1914–1918 marks the centennial anniversary of the start of World War I. “The war to end all wars,” as it was optimistically dubbed, was one of the deadliest conflicts in history and paved the way for cultural and political change… read more
