August 20, 2019, Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIntroducing The Niépce Heliograph One of the most celebrated objects in the history of photography is featured in a permanent exhibition just inside the main entrance to the Harry Ransom Center. The untitled photograph—the earliest known surviving photograph made with the aid of the camera obscura—was produced in 1827 by the French scientist and… read more
July 22, 2019, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsDetecting forgeries of Aubrey Beardsley’s influential artworks “Pray forgive my frankness when I say that two of them are not only not by A.B. [Aubrey Beardsley], but are not in the least like him! It is astonishing to me how many people are taken in. Is it not perhaps because they buy a name and not a… read more
May 31, 2019, Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections200 years later, Walt Whitman’s legacy continues to grow Walt Whitman was born on this day in 1819, and amid a panoply of planned festivities, his bicentennial has renewed popular interest in Whitman’s legacy. What has Whitman left us in our twenty-first century? Whatever he has bequeathed to us culturally, what’s certain is that 200 years after his birth,… read more
