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A new book by a journalism professor documents the hysteria and fear that culminated in Kennedy’s assassination 50 years ago. Read an excerpt and see archival JFK photographs.

The Ransom Center’s newly acquired Ed Ruscha archive reveals the creative process of one of the most influential artists working today. See his sketches, snapshots and journals.

[caption id="attachment_43185" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Pages from one of Ed Ruscha's journals, undated."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas  The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of artist Edward Ruscha (b. 1937).

[caption id="attachment_43152" align="alignleft" width="240" caption=""Dottie." Denver. © Alec Soth / Magnum Photos"][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas  The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, is partnering with photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar to bring their limited edition, “irregularly published” newspaper The LBM Dispatch to Texas.

The good news about Austin’s worsening traffic? It will be the focus of a major study by the Center for Transportation Research. Read more about this and other recent headlines.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $504,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a curatorial fellowship program for a six-year period to help train future museum curators.

Bruce Pennycook has been appointed director of digital arts for the College of Fine Arts. Pennycook, a music professor in the Butler School of Music, will facilitate the creation of digital arts courses across the college’s academic departments, including Art and Art History, Theatre and Dance and the Butler School of Music.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin and the Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil, have joined together to organize the first comprehensive career survey of one of Brazil’s most important contemporary artists, Waltercio Caldas.

[caption id=”attachment_42773″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”Photo of Art History Professor Julia E. Guernsey, grand prize winner of the 2013 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award. From left to right, pictured with: Michael G. Hasler, chair, University Co-op Board of Directors; Gregory Fenves, executive vice president and provost, The University of Texas at Austin; and Douglas…

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1474-1540, a selection of works from Augsburg, a wealthy German city and center of trade known for its innovative printmaking techniques and its important role in the spread of Renaissance ideas from Italy. The exhibition is…

“The Color Inside” is a new naked-eye observatory from renowned “sculptor of light” James Turrell. The artist participates in a free QandA Friday, Oct. 18.

Aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Andrew Takano captures Austin, UT in a stunning new light.