Watch, Read, Listen

Edward R. Bosley, Executive Director of The Gamble House, reveals the links between the architecture of Greene & Greene and their appreciation for Japanese architecture and design. Key factors include the Greenes’ education and exposure to Japanese design while students and apprentices in Boston (1888–1893), the expositions and publications that informed their developing artistic sense, and especially Charles Greene’s deeply introspective nature, which drew him towards Buddhism and other esoteric spiritual movements.

Join Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Patrick Jackson, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”

WATCH

Join Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Kahlil Joseph, 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.

WATCH

Drawing from materials in The Huntington’s collections, author Iris Jamahl Dunkle tells the story of the free-spirited and adventurous Charmian Kittredge London—wife of American author Jack London—as a literary trailblazer in her own right. She defied modern expectations of femininity through a life of fortitude and bravery, in many ways paralleling the history of the American West. This is the Ray Allen Billington Lecture in the History of the American West.