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October 2006 |
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IN THIS ISSUE
- :: Arnold Newman Archive
- :: Flair Symposium
- :: Current Exhibitions
- :: October Programs
- :: Postcard For Your Thoughts
IMAGE CREDITS
Header Image: Arnold Newman in his studio with Pablo Picasso, 1954.
News image: Arnold Newman Self-portrait, 1938. Arnold Newman/Getty Images.
Exhibitions image:
Campaign buttons from Norman Mailer's mayoral campaign.
October Programs image: Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Oil on canvas, 1961
38 x 25 inches
© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate
Insider's Perspective image: Postmark on postcard from Virginia Cazort Risse to Ezra Pound, dated March 25, 1955. |
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NEWS |
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 Photographer Arnold Newman’s archive coming to the Ransom Center
The Ransom Center has acquired the archive of photographer Arnold Newman (1918-2006), whose famous portraits captured such icons as Lyndon Baines Johnson, Pablo Picasso, and Truman Capote in their personal or professional environments. Read more or view a slideshow of Newman's images.
Ransom Center acquires Woody Allen materials
The Ransom Center has acquired materials related to the life and career of filmmaker Woody Allen. The materials span from 1937 to 2004, representing most of Allen's career. Read the full story or view the contents of the Woody Allen collection.
Flair Symposium features prominent speakers
Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Morris Dickstein, and Sam Tanenhaus are participants in this year’s Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium, The Sense of Our Time: Norman Mailer and America in Conflict, ocurring November 9 to 11, 2006. Topics to be explored include New Journalism, the conflicts of postwar America, and gender and identity politics. Registration is limited, so reserve your spot today.
Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley speaks about the Center
Learn how the Ransom Center contributes to the University’s education and research missions in a two-minute video clip. |
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EXHIBITIONS |
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Through December 31, 2006
 Norman Mailer Takes On America
Showcasing the Harry Ransom Center’s recently acquired Norman Mailer archive, the exhibition spans the full range of Mailer’s career examined in the context of the cultural and historical events that sparked his imagination. Read what Mailer scholar J. Michael Lennon has to say about Mailer, the exhibition, and the Flair Symposium.
Feliks Topolski: Portraits of Britain's Twentieth-Century Literary Greats
The exhibition marks the first time Polish-born British artist Feliks Topolski’s complete
set of 20 paintings, including portraits of W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, and Edith Sitwell, has been exhibited together.
Also of interest, the Ransom Center is the site of an exhibition of Polish film posters on the second floor from October 4 to 22, in conjunction with the 2006 Austin Polish Film Festival. |
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OCTOBER PROGRAMS |
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 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, NOON
READING Poetry on the Plaza: Poetic Portraits
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 7 P.M.
LECTURE Author Antony Penrose, son of the American photographer Lee Miller, discusses Miller’s documentary photography in "Lee Miller’s War."
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, NOON
READING Poetry on the Plaza: Actors from the London Stage present Glyn Morrow’s Ithaka
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 7 P.M.
LECTURE Daniel and Teresa Topolski talk about the life and work of their father, Feliks Topolski, in conjunction with the current exhibition. Co-sponsored by British Studies. Read more about the exhibition.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, NOON
READING Poetry on the Plaza: Actors from the London Stage present The Pilgrim’s Progress
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 7 P.M. ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE DOWNTOWN*
MAILER VS. HOLLYWOOD FILM SERIES Starring Norman Mailer and George Plimpton, Mailer’s Beyond the Law (1968) chronicles a night spent in a New York City police station. Purchase tickets.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7 P.M. ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE DOWNTOWN*
MAILER VS. HOLLYWOOD FILM SERIES Norman Mailer’s Wild 90 (1968) delves into the world of American street subculture. Purchase tickets.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7 P.M.
READING To kick off the Texas Book Festival, author Alan Furst, whose archive is at the Ransom Center, reads excerpts from and discusses his novel The Foreign Correspondent. Audience questions and a book signing follows. Read about Furst’s archive.
*Tickets are required.
All events take place at the Ransom Center unless otherwise noted and are subject
to change. Please be aware that the Ransom Center’s Prothro Theater has limited seating. |
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INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE |
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 Postcard For Your Thoughts
Ransom Center fellow Bradley Clissold talks about the role postcards played in modernism. Read why Clissold says "the postcard initiated a silent revolution in the reading and writing practices of the general public" and influenced writers. Read the full story. |
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