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The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" (1940).

The painting will be on display beginning July 6, which is Kahlo's…   » Continue Reading

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has awarded more than 65 research fellowships for 2011–12.

The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial use of the Ransom Center's collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art and performing arts materials.

The…   » Continue Reading

EVENT: A digital preview of archive materials relating to David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel "The Pale King" will be shared by the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, and publisher Little, Brown and Company.

The preview includes a series of drafts of the "Author's Foreword,"…   » Continue Reading

EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the release of David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel "The Pale King" with readings of selections from the novel.

This event is held in conjunction with the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation's New Fiction Confab and BookPeople.…   » Continue Reading

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $10,000 grant from the Friends of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics to rehouse and rearrange its holdings of the Herschel family papers and to create an online finding…   » Continue Reading

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, is now receiving applications for its 2011-2012 research fellowships in the humanities.

Fellow John Pipkin works with the John Herschel papers in the Reading Room at the Harry Ransom Center. Photo: Anthony Maddaloni The application deadline is Feb.

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"Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection," an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, explores the history of photography through the center's foundational photography collection.

The exhibition runs from Sept. 7, 2010, to Jan. 2, 2011, at the Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

Featuring more than [...]

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has introduced an initiative to raise $30,000 to restore and preserve five original costumes from "Gone With The Wind" (1939).

Green curtain dress (the Portieres dress) worn by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With [...]

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the papers of National Book Award winner Denis Johnson, author of "Jesus' Son" and "Tree of Smoke." Denis Johnson speaks on a panel at the 2008 Flair Symposium on "Building the Archive." Photo: Anthony Maddaloni Johnson was born [...]

The Magnum Photos Collection, comprising more than 1,300 boxes of photographic materials, is now open to researchers, students and the public at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Magnum Photos collection at the Harry Ransom Center. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni. Dating from the 1930s to [...]