April 24, 2018, Filed Under: Conservation, Theatre + Performing ArtsLife on the circuit seen through poster repairs Make-do repairs helped preserve the history of vaudeville Collection items that have been selected for exhibition frequently come to the paper lab for repair and stabilization before they are prepared for exhibition. Recently, conservators Kimberley Kwan (above) and Jane Boyd repaired several late nineteenth-century lithographic posters for inclusion in the… read more
April 16, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsVaudeville Film Series runs throughout May During the month of May, the Ransom Center hosts the free Vaudeville Film Series in conjunction with its exhibition Vaudeville!, which is on display through July 15. For more than a century, vaudeville was the most popular form of American entertainment and one of the country’s largest cultural exports.
January 29, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsGrappling with the past: On exhibiting minstrelsy materials The decision to include collection material depicting blackface minstrelsy in our exhibition on vaudeville is a decision we do not take lightly. Minstrelsy is part of the history of American performance and vaudeville. We have a responsibility not to hide this troubling history, but also to display it in such… read more
