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Lecture

Frankenstein on Screen: Mary Shelley’s Adapted Progeny

Thu., Oct. 28, 2021
Mary Shelley likened the writing of her famous book to Victor Frankenstein’s making of his creature. In this lecture, James Chandler, professor at the University of Chicago and The Huntington's R.
Lecture

Thoreau’s Walden: Four Contemporary Writers on its Enduring Relevance

Wed., Oct. 27, 2021
Authors Kristen Case, Gerald Early, Pico Iyer, and Megan Marshall in conversation with Karla Nielsen, Curator of Literary Collections at The Huntington
News

News Release - Huntington Conference to Celebrate the Centennial of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”

Tue., Oct. 26, 2021
To mark the centennial of the publication of James Joyce’s groundbreaking modernist novel Ulysses, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will present an academic conference, “Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of Ulysses”
Exhibitions

News Release - Exhibition to Explore the Construction of Fictional Worlds through Maps and Novels

Tue., Oct. 26, 2021
On the occasion of the centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses, “Mapping Fiction” includes works by Octavia E. Butler, William Faulkner, Jack and Charmian London, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Mark Twain, among others.
Lecture

Calligraphy in the Lingering Garden, Suzhou

Thu., Oct. 21, 2021
Amy McNair, professor of Chinese art at the University of Kansas, explores the calligraphy found in the Lingering Garden in Suzhou, a famous setting for two outdoor formats of calligraphy.
News

News Release - The Huntington Acquires Archive of Acclaimed Novelist and Travel Writer Pico Iyer

Wed., Oct. 20, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the archive of acclaimed novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer, author of such bestsellers as The Art of Stillness and The Open Road.
Lecture

Astronomy in Arcadia: Galileo and Guarini’s “Pastor Fido”

Wed., Oct. 20, 2021
Nothing generated interest, imitation, and outrage throughout Europe better and more lastingly than Giambattista Guarini's Pastor Fido.
News

News Release - The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Form Major Art Acquisitions Partnership

Mon., Oct. 18, 2021
In an agreement destined to have transformative results, The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens have formed a major art acquisitions partnership that provides significant funding to The Huntington to purchase masterpieces of European or American art to add to its collection.
Conference

An Overflow of Meaning: Reading and Re-reading Hilary Mantel - Virtual Conference

Thu., Oct. 14, 2021
Hilary Mantel, whose literary archive is held at The Huntington, is one of the most critically acclaimed authors working today.
Lectures

Reading and Rereading Hilary Mantel

Wed., Oct. 13, 2021 | Lucy Arnold
Hilary Mantel, whose literary archive is held at The Huntington, is one of the most critically acclaimed authors working today.
Lecture

War Torn Californios: The Civil Wars of Antonio and Porfirio Jimeno

Wed., Oct. 13, 2021
Jesse Alemán, professor of English at the University of New Mexico, discusses the lives and letters of the Jimeno brothers, whose coming of age in the years before the U.S.
News

News Release - The Huntington Acquires a Comprehensive Collection on the History of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

Tue., Oct. 12, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired one of the world’s most significant libraries focused on the history of cardiology and cardiovascular science.