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.

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

April 12, 2002 Arts Review by Clay Smith

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.

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

April 5, 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.

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

March 15, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Penelope Lively's Unfortunate Englishness

Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively visits her archives at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

"...ago, Penelope Lively spent a day at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center going through her archives, and after..."

March 15, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Law and Other Performing Arts

The hottest arts venue in Austin this week may well be the UT Law School, where internationally renowned cultural figures, local arts luminaries, and prominent legal experts are converging there for a symposium on law and the performing arts.

"...of Fine Arts, with the cooperation of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. From February 28 to March 9,..."

March 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Ships coming in for Scott Thompson and Richard Byron, who get to stage Dames at Sea at the Goodspeed Opera House, and for Lynn C. Miller and Laura Furman, who will have their play Passenger on the Ship of Fools performed by legendary actress Irene Worth.

"...open class on biography in performance in the Harry Ransom Center auditorium...."

Feb. 22, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

John Steinbeck: The Centennial

The HRC is throwing a party for John Steinbeck's centennial.

"...whose artifacts are culled from archives at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, reminds us what it's like to..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Learning One's Letters

Why was Oscar Wilde's 'Letter to Momma' lurking undiscovered in Texas?

"...Stephanie Watkins, head of paper conservation at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, didn't have this experience. That afternoon..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

Cumulative Staff Box

"...Lanen, Jennifer Hill, Ben Plimpton, Sally Sykes, Alex Marsh, Ransom Phillips, Jennifer Heller, Molly Legg, Jenna Heller, Joy Elliott,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

In Perfect Alignment: The Ransom Center Beat Holdings

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

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Scary Movie

Sid Moody interviews director Larry Clark about his new film, Bully.

"...can be viewed in 8x12 prints at the Harry Ransom Center, 21st & Guadalupe.) This was a scene that..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Postscripts

How to celebrate Bloomsday and other upcoming literary events in Austin.

"...in James Joyce's Ulysses, is being feted by the Ransom Center at the Dog & Duck Pub (406 W...."

June 15, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Austin Theatre Critics Table 2000-2001 Nominations

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

"...Carter LewisProduction, DramaCircumference of a Squirrel, Zachary Scott Theatre Center..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature

Making Gestures

"'You can have my husband but please don't you mess with my man' is my kind of cheek," visiting Michener Center poet Heather McHugh says in an interview with Chronicle writer Lissa Richardson. "And cheek's my favorite part of a Texas anatomy."

"...who has been a Visiting Writer at UT's Michener Center this spring...."

May 4, 2001 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson

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.

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

May 4, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...it's not there." Jim Magnuson, director of the Texas Center for Writers, describes Furman's fiction as "lucid, artful, and..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Postscripts

How the Gutenberg Bible and the world's first photograph was moved from the Harry Ransom Center to the LBJ Library.

"...dock at the LBJ Library waiting for the Harry Ransom Center's Gutenberg Bible and the world's first photograph, which..."

April 13, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Modern Taste

"There are these conundrums," Steven Watson said at lunch the day before he headed off to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT to try and unravel some of them. Clarifying the enigmas of modernism and avant-garde artists is something that Watson has become quite proficient at.

"...the day before he headed off to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT to try and unravel..."

April 13, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life.

"...7:30pm in the fourth floor auditorium of the Harry Ransom Center on the UT campus (21st & Guadalupe). Open..."

April 6, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Laying It All Out

Novelist Shelby Hearon has made an art of the little white lie.

"...nearly four years ago, when Hearon's archive at the Ransom Center was opened. At the time, I worked at..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Postmarks

Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...and the Southwest (Russell's archive is at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, by the way)...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life

"...be... "Semblance: A Portrait Sampler" is the recently installed Ransom Center exhibition that features "creative people portrayed creatively." The..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Real Estate and Perfect Mates

The year 2000 in the Austin arts, with Top 10 lists by Chronicle Arts critics and their picks for stories and personalities of the year.

"...performing arts: The Hideout, the Mary Ann Heller Opera Center, the Blue Theater, and the Bad Dog Comedy Theater...."

Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Memorial notices for actor and talk radio pioneer Harv Morgan and UT art historian Marian B. Davis.

"...at the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe. Professor Davis, who died Oct...."

Dec. 8, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Classical Musicians and Their Instruments

Photo Essay by Bret Brookshire

"...in 1980, and is music specialist at UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. She also performs around the state..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Arts Feature

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...hours transcribing these letters from the files of the Ransom Center at UT (the Southwestern Writers Collection at SWT..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Articulations

A spring full of architecural blooms.

"...school, re-landscape the gardens, and erect a 2,500-square-foot visitors' center and exhibit hall on the former Clara Driscoll estate...."

April 14, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Book Reviews

Writes of Spring

"...at times Williams, a 1996 graduate of UT's Michener Center, can be a bit preachy in driving home the..."

April 14, 2000 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Postscripts

There's not much about Texas that isn't in the new Texas Short Stories 2; editor Billy Bob Hill reveals why.

"...the story of a security guard at UT's Harry Ransom Center who is supposed to protect the "Gunterberg Bible":..."

March 10, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

TV Eye

Now that the February sweeps are over, take a look what the networks are dragging in for March.

"...John Romano (Third Watch) will speak at the Harry Ransom Center, 3/9, 7:30pm. His lecture, "TV & Literature: The..."

March 3, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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