Opening to the public Saturday (Sept. 20) and on view through March 20, “Live From New York: The Lorne Michaels Collection” provides a fascinating look behind the scenes of dozens of American cultural touchpoints of the past half century. Curator Steve Wilson was lured out of retirement to select the objects and organize the exhibit, which he estimates constitutes less than half a percent of the 500 banker’s boxes the Michaels family gave the University. Michaels approached the University in 2023 after learning of actor Robert De Niro’s positive experience with the Ransom Center, which has been acquiring internationally important collections in the humanities since 1957. Wilson says, “This archive is going to support great scholarship for years and years to come. It’s also what I think of as an anchor collection that will attract other collections as well.”