November 17, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsCanadian makes semi-annual pilgrimage to the Ransom Center’s galleries Alain Dame may very well be the Ransom Center’s biggest fan. The letter carrier from Quebec, Canada, visits the Center about twice a year and spends days (yes, days) in the galleries exploring the exhibitions. In a scenario that exhibition curators can usually only dream about, he takes the time… read more
November 14, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events"Lisztomania" hits Austin Long before Beatlemania, mid-nineteenth-century European audiences went wild for Franz Liszt, the Hungarian pianist/composer with shoulder-length hair. Women fought over his broken piano strings and collected his coffee dregs in glass vials. One woman retrieved Liszt’s discarded cigar stump from a gutter and encased it in a diamond-studded locket monogrammed… read more
November 1, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: An illustrated envelope from Frank Shay’s Bookshop Frank Shay’s shop at 4 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village was a bookstore, a community gathering place, a circulating library, and a tiny publishing house all at once. Shay published a newspaper, a magazine, and more than a dozen books from the shop during his time there: small, handcrafted editions… read more
