Conferences
In America, Nineteen Nineteen
Wed., Oct. 16, 2019 | Bill Brown
In the summer of 1919, from the pages of the Oakland Tribune, Professor Albert Porta predicted a "terrific weather cataclysm" for December 17—an event that would end the world.
The Ghostly Return of Hamlet
Wed., Oct. 16, 2019 | Zachary Lesser
The Huntington's copy of the first edition of the play upended the play's historyIn 1914, Henry E. Huntington acquired from the Duke of Devonshire a collection of English drama that included one of two surviving copies of the first edition of Hamlet
A Founder and a Year
Tue., Oct. 15, 2019 | James Glisson and Jennifer A. Watts
Henry and Arabella Huntington looked to the future by safeguarding the pastAlfonso C. Gomez, Henry E. Huntington’s longtime valet, sat for an interview in 1959, more than three decades after his employer’s death.
The Value of Originality
Sun., Oct. 13, 2019 | Jose Luis Lazarte
A young conservator carefully restores a John Singer Sargent oil sketchFor several weeks in early 2019, three members of a younger generation of conservators worked under The Huntington's senior paintings conservator
Rescuing a Hive of Bees
Sat., Oct. 12, 2019 | Usha Lee McFarling
Beekeeper Kevin Heydman's relocation process is one for the booksBees are no strangers to The Huntington. There are numerous hives in trees on the property that cause few problems
Exhibitions
News Release - Exhibition Takes a Fresh Look at 'Utopia' with New Works That Engage with The Huntington's Collections
Wed., Oct. 9, 2019
New works of art and literature will debut at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in "Beside the Edge of the World," one of the programs marking The Huntington's Centennial.
Botanical
Preserving Biodiversity One Gene at a Time
Wed., Oct. 9, 2019 | Usha Lee McFarling
The Huntington has joined an ambitious effort to collect and preserve the biodiversity of all species on Earth.
Lecture
Locked in his Private Room: A Teenager's View of the Last Days of George Armstrong Custer
Wed., Oct. 9, 2019
Researcher T.J. Stiles describes the last year of Custer's life through the eyes of teenager Bertie Swett. Swett came to know Custer and his wife Libbie at Fort Abraham Lincoln and in Manhattan while America approached a historic turning point.
Lecture
“With a sincere hand and a faithful eye”: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Science
Thu., Oct. 3, 2019
Sachiko Kusukawa, professor of the history of science at the University of Cambridge, explores the many ways images served early modern science, from anatomical atlases and botanical illustrations to telescopic and microscopic observations.
Lecture
United by Lightning: The Transcontinental Telegraph of 1861
Wed., Oct. 2, 2019
Edmund Russell, professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and the Dibner Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, discusses the motives, construction, and consequences of the completion of transcontinental telegraph in 1861.
Art
An Artist Obscured
Wed., Oct. 2, 2019 | Lauren Rodriguez
With his back turned to us, a mechanic is the focal point of Hugo Gellert's painting Worker and Machine (1928), currently on view in the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery of American Art.
Lecture
Gardens as Ecological Theater: An 18th-Century Story
Thu., Sept. 26, 2019
Eugene Wang, professor of art history at Harvard University, discusses the Qianlong Garden in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City. Built in the 1770s, the whole garden space can be seen as a five-act play.