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MEDIA ADVISORY: NEA and NEH Mark 50th Anniversary with Conversation Between Respective Chairs at The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin will host a conversation with National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu and National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William D. Adams to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the NEA and NEH.
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Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” to be Displayed at Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center 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).
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Harry Ransom Center’s World-Renowned Photography Collection Energized By New Acquisitions

The Harry Ransom Center presents the exhibition “Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions” Feb. 9 to May 29, 2016, featuring photography from the art form’s post-war expansion to its central position in contemporary art.
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Book on Medieval Syrian Shrines Takes Grand Prize at UT Austin Hamilton Book Awards

Stephennie Mulder at UT Austin has been named the $10,000 grand prize winner of the 2015 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards for her work “The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is, and the Architecture of Coexistence.”
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Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy

To mark the opening of the Gabriel García Márquez archive at UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center, international scholars, journalists, filmmakers and former colleagues of García Márquez gathered Oct. 28-30 on campus to discuss his global influence. Look back at highlights from the symposium.
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Grant Supports Creation of Makerspace in Fine Arts Library

The Hearst Foundations have awarded a $200,000 grant to the Center for Arts and Entertainment Technologies in the College of Fine Arts and the Fine Arts Library at UT Austin to help create a common makerspace.
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Gabriel García Márquez Symposium Marks Opening of Author’s Archive

UT Austin’s LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum, are hosting the symposium “Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy.”
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Gabriel García Márquez Archive Opens for Research on Oct. 21

The archive of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) opens Oct. 21 for research at UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center.
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Press Preview and Symposium Will Celebrate Opening of Gabriel García Márquez Archive

The Harry Ransom Center hosts a Oct. 21 news media preview for the opening of the Gabriel García Márquez archive at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Blanton Museum of Art Presents “Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978”

“Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940–1978,” opens at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin on Oct. 11.
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Blanton Museum of Art Presentation Offers a Rare Look at One of History’s Most Celebrated Medieval Manuscripts and Includes Medieval Arms and Armor

“The Crusader Bible: A Gothic Masterpiece,” which will be on view at the Blanton Museum of Art starting Dec. 12, is an exhibition of more than 40 unbound pages from one of the most celebrated French illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
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Digital World Map Broadens Scope for Middle Ages Teaching and Research

Online users can now travel back in time to the medieval world by clicking through a collection of international research on the first digital platform of its kind from UT Austin.