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Norman Bel Geddes

Biographer B. Alexandra Szerlip on Norman Bel Geddes’s life and legacy

April 25, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

Norman Bel Geddes was one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. An industrial designer, known best for his contribution to the Futurama exhibition at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Bel Geddes experimented with [Read more…] about Biographer B. Alexandra Szerlip on Norman Bel Geddes’s life and legacy

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: 1939 New York World’s Fair, Alex Szerlip, Alfred Hitchcock, Algonquin Roundtable, Amelia Earhartm, Barbara Alexandra Szerlip, Barbara Bel Geddes, Bel Geddes, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlie Chaplin, F.L.Wright, Futurama, George Gershwin, I Have Seen The Future, Marc Newsom, Margaret Bourke-White, Melville House, Norman Bel Geddes, Richard Ordynski, Ringling Bros. Circus, Rosamond Pinchot, Sergei Eisenstein, The Man Who Designed the Future, Vertigo

Proposed NEA, NEH funding cuts will directly impact Austin

March 23, 2017 - Stephen Enniss

Stephen Enniss, Director of the Harry Ransom Center, shared his thoughts about the proposed elmination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in an opinion editorial in the Austin American-Statesman. Below is the piece that ran on March 10.

[Read more…] about Proposed NEA, NEH funding cuts will directly impact Austin

Filed Under: Meet the Staff Tagged With: culture, Drama, endowment, Exhibitions, grant, humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA, NEH, Norman Bel Geddes, Steve Enniss

Stage materials shine spotlight on centuries of Shakespeare

March 30, 2016 - Rebecca Johnson

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” — As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII)

For four centuries, Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies have held up a mirror to society, showing us our facility for both greatness and weakness. [Read more…] about Stage materials shine spotlight on centuries of Shakespeare

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Costumes and Personal Effects, Cranach press, Donald Wolfit, Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Colleary, Exhibitions, Hamlet, McNay Art Museum, Norman Bel Geddes, Performing Arts, Rosalind Iden, set designs, Shakespeare in Print and Performance

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