Videos and Recorded Programs

Videos about The Huntington and previously recorded lectures, programs, and conferences

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Video

Lunchtime Art Talk on Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

Wed., Jan. 13, 2021
Join Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A.
Video

Lunchtime Art Talk on Nicola L.

Wed., Jan. 6, 2021
Join Matthieu Vahanian, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Nicola L., as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version." The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.
Video

Lunchtime Art Talk on Mario Ayala

Wed., Dec. 16, 2020
Join Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant at the Hammer, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Mario Ayala, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition. The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.
Lecture

Collections up Close: The Digital Collection as a Tool for Close Examination

Thu., Dec. 10, 2020
This program explores how educators, librarians, curators, artists, writers, and students can harness the power of digital archives and storytelling at a time when many of us are missing the hands-on experience of using library collections.
Video

Lunchtime Art Talk on Diane Severin Nguyen

Wed., Dec. 9, 2020
Join Lauren Mackler, co-curator of "Made in L.A. 2020: a version," for this short and insightful discussion about artist Diane Severin Nguyen, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition. The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.
Lecture

Why It Matters: James P. Folsom in Conversation with Karen R. Lawrence

Wed., Dec. 2, 2020
James P. Folsom, the Telleen/Jorgenson Director of the Botanical Gardens at The Huntington, shares insights into a lifetime spent exploring the intersections of botany, art, literature, and history.
Video

Lunchtime Art Talk on Monica Majoli

Wed., Dec. 2, 2020
Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, talks with artist Monica Majoli about her part in the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version." The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.
Lecture

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Thu., Nov. 19, 2020
Amy Stanley, professor of history at Northwestern University, introduces the vibrant social and cultural life of early nineteenth-century Japan through the story of an irrepressible woman named Tsuneno, who defied convention to make a life for herself in the big city of Edo (now Tokyo) in the dec
Lecture

Black Matter

Wed., Nov. 18, 2020
Namwali Serpell, professor of literature at Harvard, author of The Old Drift, and recent recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke award for the best science fiction novel published in the UK discusses the origins of Afrofuturism. This is the Ridge Lecture for Literature.
Lecture

Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Slave Trade

Wed., Nov. 11, 2020
Stephanie Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history at University of California, Berkeley, draws upon the testimony of formerly enslaved individuals, the correspondence and account books of slave traders, and a wide range of other material (including travel writing, newspapers and business dir
Conference

Ecologies of Paper in the Early Modern World: Virtual Conference

Thu., Nov. 5, 2020
This conference explores the transmutation, preservation, and loss of paper as a cycle of archiving and forgetting that defined early modern artistic practice, economic transaction, and political statecraft.
Video

Strange Science: Tales from the Vault

Sat., Oct. 31, 2020
Discover the eerier side of The Huntington in a virtual event where curators and botanists share rarely seen objects and otherworldly stories from deep inside the collections.