The Austin Chronicle: “‘Arnold Newman: Masterclass’ gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait.”
Arnold Newman, Igor Stravinsky, composer and conductor, New York, 1946
Gelatin silver print
© Arnold Newman / Getty Images
The exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America opens today at the Harry Ransom Center. Running through January 6, 2013, the exhibition explores the life and career of American stage and industrial designer, futurist, and urban planner Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958).
Read what T Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Metropolis magazine have to say about the exhibition and Bel Geddes.
Read the full article “In the Galleries: John Speed’s Postdeluvian Genealogy from the First Edition of the King James Bible.”
Antiquarian John Speed created a thirty-six page genealogy that was inserted into the first edition of the King James Bible (1611).
John Speed’s genealogy from the first edition of the King James Bible (1611) portrays the then-popular view that Noah’s sons went on to populate specific regions of the world: Shem to Asia, Japheth to Europe, and Ham to Africa. In the Americas, pro-slavery advocates used the “curse of Ham” to justify the enslavement of Africans and their descendents.
