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Ransom Center Receives Biggest Donation Ever

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UT’s Harry Ransom Center has long been an archival powerhouse that draws scholars from around the globe, with holdings including an original Gutenberg Bible...

 
 

A Longhorn at Cadillac Ranch

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Glenna Harris, BA ’74, Life Member, showed her Longhorn pride at the famous Cadillac Ranch art installation in Amarillo.

 
 

Longhorn Furniture—Literally [Watch]

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UT fan Danial MacPhail sent in this photo of a Longhorn chair he handcrafted. MacPhail says he has been building chairs using real horns for about 25 years, since...

 
 

The Way Back: The First Photograph

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It’s not much to look at—just a few silver smudges. If you didn’t know its origins, you might think it belonged in a junkyard. But in fact, this 8-by-10-inch...

 
 

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Art For the People

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Don Bacigalupi took on one of the biggest gambles the art world has ever seen—and made it look easy. Striding the halls of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American...

 
 

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Works in Conversation

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UT’s Blanton Museum of Art turns 50 this spring with a new exhibit of masterpieces owned by Longhorns. Join us for a guided tour of Through the Eyes of Texas:...

 
 

Celebrating Longhorns’ Dry-Erase Doodles

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UT Libraries project specialist Frank Meaker makes the rounds at UT’s Perry-Castañeda Library every day, checking on maintenance tasks like leaky pipes and...

 
 

Artist in the Lab, Scientist in the Studio

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A protein depicted as a coiling ribbon, an animation of a chemical reaction, a time-lapse movie of planetary motion—all are examples of scientific visualization,...

 
 

A Burnt-Orange Alice

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Salvador Dali’s renditions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland are filled with every Longhorn’s favorite color: burnt orange. More than 100...

 
 

Medical Arts

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“OK, what was the first thing you noticed when you looked at this painting?” I asked a group visiting UT’s Blanton Museum of Art recently. “It looks...

 
 
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