In Perfect Alignment: The Ransom Center Beat Holdings

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

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

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 to the..."

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

The Radical Context

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

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

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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. Rising..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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: The Rise..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Wide-Angle Lens

The Ransom Center captures photography's history with striking breadth and focus

"...the city from developing into one of the major centers for the study of photography on the planet. With..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Poet's Paper Trail

Billy Collins' archives acquired in advance of Austin appearance

"...major announcement that the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center has acquired the popular poet’s archive...."

Jan. 21, 2014 Books Post by Amy Smith

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

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

Sept. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postscripts

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

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

An Eye for History

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

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

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.

"...our radar: the proposed renovation of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at 21st & Guadalupe. This prestigious UT..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Arts Column 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.

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

April 5, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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

Film News

Texas could be like New York

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

March 16, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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

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

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Articulations

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

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

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.

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

July 12, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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.

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

April 26, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Great Critic Test

How Much Do You Really Know About These Freaks?

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

Feb. 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Postscripts

Manos de Mujer

"...in the Fourth floor auditorium of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT...."

Feb. 21, 1997 Books Column

Makes Me Wanna Shout!

"...fall's most exciting events is underway. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is sponsoring a look at the last..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Arts Column

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

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

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Person

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

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

Feb. 25, 2005 Books Feature by Jess Sauer

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

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.

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

March 15, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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 place. Its..."

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.

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

April 12, 2002 Arts Review by Clay Smith

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