October 30, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1A conversation on “Dying Well in Early Modern England” with curator Aaron Pratt A current Stories to Tell display embraces the Halloween spirit with a collection of early printed books from throughout the Ransom Center’s collections that take on the topic of death.
May 22, 2018, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Meticulous free verse: Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés and Ellsworth Kelly “The literary value, if I may say it, of this span of empty space on the page, which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one’s simultaneous view of the entirety of the page…” (Stéphane… read more
January 16, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmIn the galleries: Dressing for success in Mad Men’s Season 6 The Ransom Center’s Stories to Tell exhibition features a rotating selection from the Ransom Center’s holdings.