Library
Ben Jonson’s Readers
Wed., Dec. 7, 2016 | Jane Rickard
The poet and playwright Ben Jonson (1572–1637) was exceptionally concerned with literary posterity. His most ambitious publication was the folio collection of his Works that appeared 400 years ago this year.
Conference
Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints
Mon., Dec. 5, 2016
This symposium, organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints," explores the relationship and interaction between image and text in woodblock prints during the late Ming and Qing periods.
Lecture
The Huang Family of Block Cutters: The Thread that Binds Late Ming Pictorial Woodblock Printmaking
Thu., Dec. 1, 2016
David Barker, professor of printmaking at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, considers the important contributions made to Chinese pictorial printing by the famous Huang family of artisan block cutters.
Art
Viewing Sam Francis in Another Light
Wed., Nov. 30, 2016 | Nicole Block
I grew up in Southern California and have loved The Huntington since I first visited it on a high school field trip. Being an intern this past summer in the American art department was a dream come true.
Conference
Histories of Data and the Database
Mon., Nov. 28, 2016
In the age of internet searches and social media, data has become hot—and not for the first time.
Art
The Beard Makes the Man
Tue., Nov. 22, 2016 | James Fishburne
Is identity mutable? Can you alter who you are? Whether or not real transformation is achievable, it is possible to change how others view you. A new exhibition in the Huntington Art Gallery examines an age-old tool used in the effort to influence perception: facial hair. "A History of Whiskers:...
Conferences
The Brave New (and Old) World of Data
Thu., Nov. 17, 2016 | Theodore Porter and Soraya de Chadarevian
Data, made up of units so uniform as to be, almost by necessity, boring, unite to form collectives of information in a data-driven world that is recognized now as exciting, sexy, and consummately modern. And not for the first time, we must add.
The Way We Were
Tue., Nov. 15, 2016 | Martha Groves
For Ernest Marquez, a lifelong obsession ends up documenting the evolution of L.A.Even as a novice collector, Ernest Marquez found that he had a discerning eye for early images of Southern California
Exhibitions
Hearing NASA’s Earth Science Satellites
Tue., Nov. 15, 2016 | Diana W. Thompson
As visual strategists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Dan Goods and David Delgado use art and design to explain science. Their newest project is the Orbit Pavilion sound experience, which recently opened at The Huntington. The large silver structure sits on the Celebration Lawn by the terrace of the...
Chronicles of Childbearing
Tue., Nov. 15, 2016 | Usha Lee McFarling
The Longo Collection traces seismic shifts in obstetrics and gynecology over six centuriesThe images are haunting glimpses into the most primal and private of human moments—the experience of birth
Lost Flavors
Mon., Nov. 14, 2016 | Patric Kuh
The Huntington's rare cookbooks reveal changes in American cooking that eventually sparked a food movementWe hear the word “artisanal” all the time—attached to cheese, chocolate, coffee, even fast-food chain sandwiches—but what does it really mean?
Artful Partnership
Sun., Nov. 13, 2016 | Harold B. Nelson
A needlework treasure from the collection of Jonathan and Karin FieldingThe colorfully embroidered samplers produced in early America by girls between the ages of eight and 18 were typically the result of a creative partnership