January 31, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsArt critic Jed Perl’s "Magicians and Charlatans" The Harry Ransom Center welcomes Jed Perl, art critic for The New Republic, and Peter Kayafas, Director of the Eakins Press Foundation, to discuss their work on Magicians and Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture and the way that artists, writers, and publishers have responded to the digital age. The… read more
June 22, 2012, Filed Under: Art, Books + ManuscriptsAlice in Burnt Orange: Salvador Dalí’s rendition of the Lewis Carroll classic at the Ransom Center Sarah Sussman is a graduate student in the English Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Though currently writing about nineteenth-century American Spiritualism, she is interested in Surrealist art, children’s literature, and British literature as well. Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel that stretches the imagination and playfully defies logic has… read more
March 13, 2012, Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsIn the galleries: Jacob Lawrence’s "Eight Studies for The Book of Genesis" Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) received his early education as an artist in Harlem. By the time he was in his twenties, he had received national recognition for his work, notably “The Migration Series,” about the African-American migration from the South to the North following World War I. Lawrence spent most of… read more
