July 16, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsIn the galleries: A page from the first draft of Don DeLillo’s "Underworld" Don DeLillo once noted in an interview, “The significance of baseball, more than other sports, lies in the very nature of the game—slow and spread out and rambling. It’s a game of history and memory, a kind of living archive.” DeLillo explored those aspects of the sport in his 1997… read more
June 11, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyNow open: “Literature and Sport” and “Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive” Two new exhibitions, Literature and Sport and Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive open today at the Ransom Center. Sport holds a sacred place in Western culture and literature. Writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Norman Mailer, Marianne Moore, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace… read more
February 12, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyNow open: “Arnold Newman: Masterclass” The exhibition Arnold Newman: Masterclass opens today at the Harry Ransom Center and runs through May 12. This exhibition explores the career of photographer Arnold Newman (1918–2006), who created iconic portraits of some of the most influential innovators, celebrities, and cultural figures of the twentieth century. Newman’s archive resides at… read more
