September 28, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film, Research + TeachingLove and jazz Maxine Gordon has loved jazz music all her life. From going to hear Miles Davis and John Coltrane as a teenager, to working as a road manager and promoter when she was a young woman, to becoming the personal manager and ultimately the wife of one of the most influential… read more
September 27, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsFree daily exhibition tours of Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance Tour Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance Through January 6, 2019
September 10, 2018, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsNotebooks illuminate creative process behind Billy Collins’s poem “The Names” This story originally appeared January 21, 2014. Among the papers in the recently acquired Billy Collins archive are materials related to his poem “The Names,” which was written to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Interspersed throughout the poem are the names of 26 victims of the… read more