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The Materiality of Love
Wed., Feb. 12, 2020Peter Stallybrass, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, examines a single letter that Elizabeth Barrett wrote to Hugh Stuart Boyd, a scholar with whom she was passionately in love long before she met her fellow poet and future husband, Robert Browning.
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The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Wed., Feb. 12, 2020 | Thea PageAn installation of contemporary British paintings of fictional Black characters has been juxtaposed with The Huntington's collection of 18th-century British portraits
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Why It Matters: Karen R. Lawrence In Conversation with Carla Hayden
Thu., Feb. 6, 2020Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence speaks with Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, about why archives and libraries exist and why the work they do continues to be important.
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News Release - The Huntington Acquires Archive Documenting a Notorious Colonial Plot to Defraud Native Americans of Ancestral Land in Pennsylvania
Thu., Feb. 6, 2020The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a recently discovered archive documenting an 18th-century investigation into a land deal—the so-called Walking Purchase—that defrauded the Lenni Lenape
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An Age-Old Craft and a Brand-New Roof
Wed., Feb. 5, 2020 | Usha Lee McFarlingThe Pavilion for Washing Away Thoughts (Di Lü Ting 滌慮亭) lies tucked along the stream between the Japanese and Chinese gardens.
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New Palms Along the North Vista
Wed., Jan. 29, 2020 | Jessica PettengillThe North Vista—with its stately lawn, Baroque fountain, and Henry E. Huntington's personal sculpture collection—has been an iconic location at The Huntington
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The First Vision of Joseph Smith, Jr.: 200 Years On
Fri., Jan. 24, 2020Rooted in The Huntington's substantial collection of Mormon history materials, this conference commemorates the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith's proclaimed First Vision experience.
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Transformations of the Chinese Garden
Thu., Jan. 23, 2020Hui-shu Lee, professor of Chinese art history at UCLA, reflects on two recipients of the Pritzker Architecture Prize—I. M. Pei and Wang Shu—and their instrumental reinterpretations of Chinese garden design for the modern and post-modern worlds.