Stepping inside the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is like stepping into a literary time machine, where the magic of children’s stories comes to life in unexpected ways.

Join the curators of “Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center” as they offer their unique perspective into the exhibition and the Center’s collections. The exhibition ...

“He’s very thin, though.” There were about two dozen of them in the Harry Ransom Center’s Prothro Theater, and we were all excited to get our eyes on Robert De Niro. The 79-year-old movie ...

To celebrate, the Harry Ransom Center is planning a major exhibition titled "LIVE FROM NEW YORK! THE MAKING OF LORNE MICHAELS," set to open in September 2025. Researchers will have full access to ...

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin fosters a supportive environment so that researchers may explore, examine, critique, and better understand the cultural works in its ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of "Saturday Night Live," has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The Lorne Michaels Collection ...

It’s unclear if other archives around the country were ever in the running. Ransom Center director Stephen Enniss says Michaels initiated conversations that led to the donation. “We were not ...

In conjunction with the Harry Ransom Center's ongoing exhibit The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West (on display through Aug. 2), the HRC kicks off the Orientalist ...

Even better, free art from a free gallery that would look perfect on the walls of art lovers and cinephiles equally - courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center and its current exhibition, "Drawing the ...

Meryl's coming to town. The University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center on Monday announced that Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep will attend "A Celebration of Film," the center's fall ...

As head of the Harry Ransom Center in Texas, he enhanced its holdings by acquiring the papers of a host of literary lions, and of Woodward and Bernstein to boot. By Richard Sandomir Thomas F.