Harry Ransom Center: They f**king scored the f**king Mamet papers

UT's Ransom Center – which has long held to the motto, 'Always be closing' – has acquired the archives of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet

"...The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center – which has long held..."

April 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Harry Ransom Center

The papers of director Peter Masterson and actor Carlin Glynn land at the HRC

"...Best Little Whorehouse in Texas than the best little humanities research library in Texas? So naturally, Peter Masterson, who..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Perfect Alignment: The Ransom Center Beat Holdings

"...the LBJ Library and Museum as part of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's "From Gutenberg to Gone With..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Radical Context

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

"...Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941, a 10-part film series that the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has brought to Austin. HRC's..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's fascinating exhibition "Make It New:..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...The new front corners of the Ransom Center exterior are impressive enough for what they are...."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Left of Staid

UT's Texas Center for Writers Reading Series

"...this is par for the course for UT's Texas Center for Writers' (TCW) campus reading series, which also utilizes..."

May 9, 1997 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Out of Commission

The curious saga of 20 portraits of British literary greats that UT paid Feliks Topolski to paint, then didn't show for decades

"...Greats," being exhibited now with great fanfare at the Ransom Center, did not get a lot of love from..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postscripts

"...the Evening: British Theater 1956-1996 program sponsored by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, will bring together major playwrights,..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Books Column

Christopher Isherwood

The Diaries

"...had read in the Rare Books section of the Humanities Center of the University of Texas the manuscript of..."

April 4, 1997 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Ansel Adams: Revelations

The Ransom Center exhibition 'Ansel Adams: A Legacy' lets you experience the works of the best-known of American photographers as art rather than commerce

"..."Ansel Adams: A Legacy" at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center...."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

An Eye for History

"...Duncan's life's work which were recently acquired by UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, I realize that the 400..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Photography's Turning Point: The Journal 'Camera Work'

Local Arts Reviews

"..."Photography's Turning Point: The Journal 'Camera Work'"Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, through Oct. 17..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Articulations

Forward motion on a renovation of UT's Harry Ransom Center and the lack of motion in the design of the new Blanton Museum of Art.

"...Ransom Redo..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Film News

Texas could be like New York

"...on display starting Monday in the lobby of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. De Niro donated his collection..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Articulations

The Harry Ransom Center has acquired all the professional and personal materials of profoundly influential acting teacher Stella Adler

"...come to Austin: the archive of Stella Adler. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has just acquired all the..."

April 30, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

A Northern California theatre director is combing through the massive Tennessee Williams archive in UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for another as-of-yet unstaged drama by the great playwright that he can bring into the spotlight á la Spring Storm.

"...was discovered in the massive Williams archive in UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the same place where Vanessa..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Joe Ely's 'Bonfire of Roadmaps': A life on the road, in 50 feet of drawings

Veteran Texas rocker Joe Ely forsakes the roadhouse for the Ransom Center, to show off his lifetime of artwork and verse about a musician's life on tour

"...not ordinarily expect to find the roadhouse rocker: the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Oh, he won't be there..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Photojournalist David Douglas Duncan returns to Austin to inaugurate a new lecture series named in his honor, homegrown musical Jouét touches down in the pages of Show Music magazine, and Gerard Lebeda lands a European tour of Evita.

"...of his archives to the Photography Collection of UT-Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. As writer Sam Martin noted..."

April 5, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Great Critic Test

How Much Do You Really Know About These Freaks?

"...results of their study are on view at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in the exhibition "The Critical..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Postscripts

Chronicles of a Chronicler

"...Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award from the UT Center for American History (actually, he will receive it at..."

March 21, 1997 Books Column

In Person

Don DeLillo at UT's Jessen Auditorium, Feb. 10.

"...the University of Texas announced last October that its Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center would house the Don DeLillo..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Books Feature by Jess Sauer

Articulations

The renovation of Laguna Gloria is a go, Charo is not, and Flaming Idiot Rob Williams whips up one of his bologna specials for Katie Couric.

"...is also project architect for the renovation of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT, created the master..."

April 26, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

The UT symposium "From Text to Performance: Law and Other Performing Arts" proved to be a stimulating blend of scholarly thought, intellectual inquiry, thoughtful performance, amicable conversation, fiery debate, and amusing anecdotes.

"...College of Fine Arts, with the cooperation of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, ended up a stimulating blend..."

March 15, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postscripts

Manos de Mujer

"...at 7:30pm in the Fourth floor auditorium of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT...."

Feb. 21, 1997 Books Column

News/Print

Look into my eye. Look into my other eye. Rub noses!

"...This just in: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is one hell of a..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

David Douglas Duncan

David Douglas Duncan inaugurated the David Douglas Duncan Endowed Lecture Series in Photojournalism by talking about his dog Yo-Yo, a small terrier, and providing the audience with an intimate and entertaining slide show from one of the world's master photographers.

"...for his archives, which he began donating to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in 1996, he told the..."

April 12, 2002 Arts Review by Clay Smith

Short Cuts

Austin Studios enter Phase 2 development, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center shows off its movie wares, and the Alamo Drafthouse seeks campers willing to squeal like pigs.

"...Studios is the future of Texas filmmaking, then the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT is a helluva..."

May 4, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

North by Northwest

One of Hitchcock's very best comic thrillers, North by Northwest features scene after unforgettable scene (including those with the crop duster and Mount Rushmore).

"...the crop-duster sequence; the exhibit is courtesy of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT...."

Dec. 28, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Art

Art Openings

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March 14, 1997 News Feature

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