Peter O’Toole’s archive heads to The University of Texas at Austin

Film and theatre actor’s writings and scripts join collections held at the university’s Harry Ransom Center

Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

What connects the author’s famous friendships?

“You talkin’ to me?”

Robert De Niro’s script reveals improvised line

Forty years ago, Taxi Driver (1976) was released to critical and popular acclaim and its most famous line, “You talkin’ to me?” instantly became one of the most memorable lines in film…

The Poetic Space of Ellsworth Kelly’s Prints

A suite of prints by Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) is currently on view through August 12, 2018, as part of the Ransom Center’s “Stories to Tell” exhibition. By…

Decades of movie poster history go online

From the silver screen to the computer screen — thousands…

Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance

The Harry Ransom Center presents the exhibition “Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance” from August 11, 2018, through January 6, 2019.

Of Grieving and Goshawks

Author Helen Macdonald mines memories for material

Helen Macdonald is the author of H is for Hawk (Grove Atlantic), which landed on more than 25 book-of-the-year lists and was a New York Times bestseller. Macdonald, a falconer…

Conserving a paramour’s love notes — for a princess — on flower petals

A 104-year-old pressed flower can barely be handled safely, much less opened. By Genevieve Pierce Kyle

Remembering photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, 1916–2018

The internationally-renowned American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan has died at age 102 in France.