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In the Galleries: Jonas Bendiksen’s contact sheets
In 2012, Magnum introduced the sale of carefully reproduced contact sheets, offering “the opportunity to own a piece of Magnum’s history.” Indeed the digital turn in photography has forced the contact...
View ArticleRansom Center’s Nuremberg Chronicle on view at the Blanton Museum
A copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle from the Ransom Center’s collections is on view at The University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art as part of the exhibition Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance...
View ArticleTurner Classic Movies to be premier sponsor for upcoming “Gone With The Wind”...
Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the Peabody Award-winning network that is the leading authority on classic films, is a premier sponsor for the Harry Ransom Center’s exhibition The Making of Gone With The...
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75 Days. 75 Years: List details suggested writers for “Gone With The Wind”
For 75 days, the Harry Ransom Center is raising funds for its 2014 exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind. Opening on September 9, 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind will reveal stories about...
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75 Days. 75 Years: Chart reveals comparison of possible deals with MGM and...
For 75 days, the Harry Ransom Center is raising funds for its 2014 exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind. Opening on September 9, 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind will reveal stories...
View Article75 Days. 75 Years: Costume designer created more than 5,000 separate items of...
For 75 days, the Harry Ransom Center is raising funds for its 2014 exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind. Opening on September 9, 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind will reveal stories about...
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75 Days. 75 Years: How one of Hollywood’s most famous lines was retained
For 75 days, the Harry Ransom Center is raising funds for its 2014 exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind. Opening on September 9, 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind will reveal stories about...
View ArticleVideo: Magnum photographer Eli Reed discusses his career and documentary...
The exhibition Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan is on view at the Ransom Center through December 8. In the above video, Eli Reed, Magum photographer and a clinical professor of journalism at The...
View ArticleRansom Center partners with Texas Exes on World War I-themed anniversary tour
2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, a watershed event that claimed millions of lives and changed the course of the twentieth century. The Ransom Center’s exhibit...
View ArticleThanksgiving holiday hours
The Ransom Center will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Please be aware that the Ransom Center Galleries are open on this Friday, November 29, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday,...
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75 Days. 75 Years: Actresses who had screen tests for role of Scarlett O’Hara
For 75 days, the Harry Ransom Center is raising funds for its 2014 exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind. Opening on September 9, 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind will reveal stories about...
View ArticleNEH grants Ransom Center $500,000 to establish exhibition endowment
The Ransom Center has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to establish an endowment that will sustain the institution’s exhibition program....
View ArticleWinter break hours
Holiday hours for the Ransom Center are as follows: Ransom Center Galleries 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Thursday Noon–5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday The Ransom Center...
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War photography exhibition showcases images from the Ransom Center’s...
Back in November the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath opened at its fourth and final venue, the Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition, which I curated with Anne Tucker...
View ArticleEnter to win tickets to “Love & War” exhibition opening celebration
Today the galleries open for the Ransom Center’s spring exhibition, The World at War, 1914–1918. Join us for “Love & War,” the opening celebration for the exhibition from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday,...
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Letters detail adventures, boredom of Monuments Men recovering art stolen by...
In 1943, the Allies of World War II established the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program—an organization tasked with recovering, restoring, and returning stolen or lost cultural artifacts. The...
View ArticleIn the Galleries: Gordon Conway “Vanity Fair” cover illustration highlights...
World War I played a crucial part in the transformation of gender roles. As men left for the battlefields, women took on traditionally male occupations at home. Buoyed by this experience and a new...
View ArticleIn the Galleries: Frank Nicolet Lucien poster pays homage to poem “In...
In the spring of 1915, John McCrae, a young Canadian surgeon, conducted a burial service for a friend, killed by German artillery during the Second Battle of Ypres, in the First World War. Inspired by...
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World War I-era Russian propaganda posters portray food as evil
Food was in high demand during the First World War, especially in Russia. The food shortages were so constant that they were ultimately one of the factors that helped to incite the revolutions of 1917....
View ArticleBefore and After: World War I–era panoramic photo undergoes conservation...
The Ransom Center’s exhibition The World at War, 1914–1918 features a panoramic group portrait of the 103rd Aero Squadron (Lafayette Escadrille), the first U.S. aviation pursuit squadron in combat in...
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