September 15, 2009, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsHow do you make the world go ’round? The Ransom Center’s Coronelli Celestial globe (ca. 1688) is almost five feet high and depicts several constellations labeled in Italian and Latin. To coincide with the current exhibition, Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works, the technology and digital services department developed a virtual model of the globe for our website. Photographer… read more
September 10, 2009, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsResearch at the Ransom Center: Terrence McNally’s connections By Raymond-Jean Frontain What brings people to the theater, a speaker explains in “Hidden Agendas”—a sketch that Terrence McNally wrote in the early 1990s in response to a censorship crisis at the National Endowment for the Arts—is “the expectation that the miracle of communication will take place. […] Words, sounds,… read more
September 10, 2009, Filed Under: Theatre + Performing ArtsPlaywright Terrence McNally’s connections Four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally is a frequent focus of theater news these days.
