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The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received $137,015 from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives for “Revealing Texas Collections of Comedias Sueltas.”

Contemporary art exhibitions from the Visual Arts Center’s (VAC) Vaulted Gallery at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as works by faculty and alumni from the College of Fine Arts’ Department of Art and Art History, will be displayed in the recently opened W Austin Hotel through a partnership among the VAC, Stratus…

The Texas Biennial, now in its fourth year, will take place April 9-May 14. This year more than 800 applicants applied to participate, 50 finalists were chosen and of those finalists, 13 were alumni or faculty from the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Emeritus Oscar Brockett touched hearts and molded minds. Family, friends and students gathered on campus to pay tribute to the prominent theatre historian.

Scenes for a drama pilot for Lifetime television titled “Meet Jane” will be filmed on the southeast corner of Inner Campus Drive throughout the day on Wednesday, Dec. 15.

The Harry Ransom Center’s exhibition “Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-first Century” showcases major literary and cultural archives acquired by the center since 2000.

The Harry Ransom Center celebrates the 100th anniversary of American playwright Tennessee Williams’ birth with the exhibition “Becoming Tennessee Williams.” The exhibition runs from Feb. 1 to July 31 at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

For the perfect holiday gift this year, consider some of these new reads by university faculty, staff and alumni.

The Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas Libraries is playing a significant role in the establishment of an archive for the preservation of records related to the Rwandan genocide.

Christmas in one way or another taps into our national consciousness, says Penne Restad, senior lecturer in the Department of History.

Explore selections from the Harry Ransom Center’s Gernsheim Collection, which features masterpieces from photography’s first 150 years.

Applications are being accepted by the Harry Ransom Center for the Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography, occurring in Austin June 6-24, 2011.