“The exhibition features the Ransom Center’s extensive holdings of Harry Houdini, Tony Pastor, and Florenz Ziegfeld, among others, to show the development of vaudeville’s highly...

An exhibition highlighting “the important history of 20th-century art and how artists, museum curators, gallery owners, journalists and publishers in the US and Mexico instigated...

An exhibition of items from the HRC’s cultural collections. The show will feature “more than 250 items including, among many others, manuscripts of David Foster Wallace,...

An exhibition of more than 200 photographs by Elliott Erwitt. Erwitt is known for his images of dogs, cultural figures, and daily life. The show is...

An exhibition of nearly 200 new acquisitions to the Harry Ransom Center’s photography collection. Pieces in the show range from the post-war expansion of photography...

An exhibition of set designs, manuscripts, costumes, and various other items of ephemera relating to Shakespeare

Presented in conjunction with the Ransom Center’s current exhibition Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Senior Research Curator of Photography Roy Flukinger will speak about the photography...

Magnum Photos photographers have produced some of the most memorable images of the last century, shaping history and revolutionizing photography’s influence on modern culture. Founded...

Austin Film Festival announces A Conversation with David Magee, writer of Life of Pi and Finding Neverland, on adaptation, writing for imaginative worlds, and using...

This exhibition explores the career of photographer Arnold Newman (1918–2006), who created iconic portraits of some of the most influential innovators, celebrities, and cultural figures...

The Ransom Center hosts Jed Perl, Art Critic for The New Republic, for a discussion about the state of the art world and the future...

When you drive on an interstate highway, attend a multimedia Broadway show, or watch a football game in an all-weather stadium, you owe a debt...

Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection draws from the collection of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. The exhibition features masterpieces from photography’s first 150...

Making Movies features original scripts, storyboards, production photos, call sheets and screenplays from the Ransom Center’s extensive film collections! The exhibition emphasizes the collaborative nature...

Edgar Allan Poe would be 200 this year. That’s as creepy as a ticking heart under the floorboards.

This exhibition celebrates the art of photographer Fritz Henle, and "coincides with the centenary of his birth in Germany. Featuring more than 125 seminal works...

The work of Beat culture artist Burgess Collins, better known as Jess, "explores his ongoing dialog between visual images and printed text. Imaginative collage works...