November 18, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyOld Inspires the New Austin-based Lakes Were Rivers, a group of 11 artists working in photography and video, recently collaborated with the Ransom Center to pair works of its artists with images from the Center’s photography collection, resulting in (Re)Collection, an exhibition in conjunction with the East Austin Studio Tour. Each artist selected an… read more
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
