At Harry Ransom until August 1st

Through August 1

Making Movies

Featuring items from the Ransom Center’s extensive film collections, Making Movies reveals the collaborative nature of the filmmaking process and focuses on how the artists involved—from writers to directors, actors to cinematographers—transform the written word into moving image.

Highlights include original scripts, storyboards, production photos, and call sheets, in addition to screenplays from The Third Man, North by Northwest, and Shakespeare in Love, and costumes from Gone With The Wind, An Affair to Remember, and Taxi Driver.LEARN MORE.

¡Viva! Mexico’s Independence

The year 2010 marks the 200th anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain and the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, pivotal events in Mexico’s struggle for self-governance. ¡Viva! Mexico’s Independence showcases materials from the Ransom Center’s collections, including the 1529 document appointing Hernán Cortés Captain General of New Spain; unpublished letters exchanged between Ferdinand Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, and his wife Carlotta; documentary photographs of the Mexican Revolution; and period broadsides illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada. Sponsored in part by ViaNovo. VIEW VIDEOof Rosalba Ojeda, Consul General of México in Austin, discussing the value of seeing original materials that illuminate these important milestones in Mexico's history.

At the Blanton Museum through August 1

Manuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries: Photographs from the Collections of the Harry Ransom Center and the Blanton Museum of Art

Organized by the Blanton as part of The University of Texas at Austin’s celebration of the Mexican Bicentennial, the exhibition features 45 iconic images by “the father of Mexican photography” drawn from the Harry Ransom Center and the Blanton—the University's two primary collections of cultural materials. The show also includes examples of important work by Álvarez Bravo’s contemporaries, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. VIEW a blog post by Blanton Associate Curator of Latin American Art Ursula Davila-Villa about the life and work of Álvarez Bravo.