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Highlights from an unprecedented year

December 31, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

It was not the year we anticipated, hoped for, or a year we would want to repeat. The first rumblings of the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, escalated in February, and eventually erupted in our community in March when the Center closed its doors to in-person visits and staff began working remotely. What happened next was a natural shift to expanding the Center’s online presence throughout the year. [Read more…] about Highlights from an unprecedented year

Filed Under: archive, Art, Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Conservation, Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, literature, Photography, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Year-in-Review

Ransom Center closed temporarily

November 1, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

The University of Texas at Austin and the Harry Ransom Center continue to prioritize the health and safety of our community, and we remain temporarily closed to the public at this time. Re-opening will be announced in accordance with the university and with proper safety measures in place to protect our valued community.

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Filed Under: archive, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Research

All hail The Queen! An interview with drag historian Joe E. Jeffreys

June 26, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

Inside the spring 2020 Stories to Tell exhibition, Ransom Center film curator Steve Wilson explores the archive related to the recently restored film, The Queen, which documents the 1967 “Miss All American Camp Beauty Pageant” held in Manhattan. The New York contest was a parody of the Miss America pageant and featured drag queens when laws against cross-dressing and widespread anti-gay attitudes put the participants at great personal risk. The Center worked in partnership with Kino-Lorber to restore the film, and in 2019, The Queen was re-released. Learn more through this Q&A with multi-platform drag historian and videographer Joe E. Jeffreys (read more). [Read more…] about All hail The Queen! An interview with drag historian Joe E. Jeffreys

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Film Tagged With: Lewis Allen, LGBQT+

THE QUEEN

June 8, 2020 - Steve Wilson

Lewis Allen was a respected theater and film producer. His biggest hits on stage were Annie (1983), I’m Not Rappaport (1985), A Few Good Men (1989), and Master Class (1995). His films include The Connection (1961), The Lord of the Flies (1963), and Fahrenheit 451 (1966). But, when Allen’s daughter Brooke donated her father’s archive to the Ransom Center in 2006, she told me that of all her father’s films, the one which he was most proud of was a 1968 documentary called The Queen. [Read more…] about THE QUEEN

Filed Under: archive, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Film

How Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude became a classic

May 30, 2020 - Alvaro Santana-Acuna

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Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published on May 30, 1967. A new book by Ransom Center guest curator and Whitman College assistant professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña–Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic (Columbia University Press, August 2020), explores how the novel achieved success and what it reveals about how a work of literature becomes a classic.

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Filed Under: archive, Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, literature Tagged With: Gabo, Gabriel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For the Walls of America: Prints from Associated American Artists

April 7, 2020 - Tracy Bonfitto

In 1934, publicist Reeves Lewenthal called together a group of 23 American artists to discuss his innovative plan for distributing art to the American public. [Read more…] about For the Walls of America: Prints from Associated American Artists

Filed Under: archive, Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: Associated American Artists, Grant Wood, Stories to Tell, Thomas Hart Benton

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