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Mexican artist's exhibit opens
10/19/2004 9:44 AM
By: Amy Hadley

From the "Impossible Interviews" series, Al Capone and Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes.  
There are many cool things and exhibits to see at the Harry Ransom Center on the University of Texas campus.

You can check out the first photograph, a Gutenburg Bible, and now the new Miguel Covarrubias: Mexico's Renaissance Man exhibition.

On Tuesday night Adriana Williams, biographer of the Mexican artist, and his niece, Maria Elena Covarrubias, will be at the Center to talk about his work and family.

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Famous caricatures

Jen Tisdale of the Harry Ransom Center talks about the artist’s caricatures.



Impossible Interviews

Peter Mears of the Harry Ransom Center discusses Covarrubias' life, successes and art.



The exhibition includes Covarrubias' caricatures, paintings and book illustrations drawn from the Center's Nickolas Muray Collection of Mexican Art.

For more information on this exhibit which runs through April and all the other things you can see at the Harry Ransom Center, check them out online or call (512) 471-8944.



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