May 12, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyRansom Center helps to launch Magnum Photos’s “Postcards From America” “5 photographers, a writer, 2 weeks, a bus.” Thus begins a unique documentary project comprised of Magnum photographers Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky, and writer Ginger Strand, who will be traveling from San Antonio to Oakland from May 12 to May 26 on the first… read more
April 28, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: The "Ruins of a Play" evolve into "The Glass Menagerie" Most people know Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie as the least disguised and most deeply autobiographical of Williams’s plays, the positive reception of which elevated him to immediate celebrity. He was applauded as loudly for Menagerie as he was booed for his previous play Battle of Angels. Williams later described… read more
April 26, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the galleries: David Foster Wallace’s affinity for grammar and usage David Foster Wallace, who was regarded by many as the best writer of his generation, was a talented essayist who was commissioned by several publications, from Harper’s and The Atlantic Monthly to Rolling Stone and Gourmet, to write on topics as disparate as a luxury cruise, tennis, the Illinois State… read more
