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News Release - Exhibition Takes a Fresh Look at 'Utopia' with New Works That Engage with The Huntington's Collections

Oct. 9, 2019

SAN MARINO, Calif.— 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...

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Verso

Preserving Biodiversity One Gene at a Time

Oct. 9, 2019 by Usha Lee McFarling
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The Huntington has joined an ambitious effort to collect and preserve the biodiversity of all species on Earth ...

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Lecture

Locked in his Private Room: A Teenager's View of the Last Days of George Armstrong Custer

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...

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Lecture

“With a sincere hand and a faithful eye”: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Science

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...

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An Artist Obscured

Oct. 2, 2019 by Lauren Rodriguez
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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 ...

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Lecture

United by Lightning: The Transcontinental Telegraph of 1861

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...

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Lecture

Gardens as Ecological Theater: An 18th-Century Story

Sep. 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...

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Lecture

Slavery Matters

Sep. 25, 2019

James Walvin, professor emeritus at the University of York and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, discusses the widespread global ramifications of African slavery that transformed...

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Verso

The Feast of the Thousand Old Men

Sep. 25, 2019 by Alexander Statman
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"The Qianlong emperor, now regnant, gave a truly paternal feast for 3,000 old men assembled from all parts of the empire." ...

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Conference

Sincerely Yours, Wallace Stevens

Sep. 21, 2019

Wallace Stevens is regarded as one of the great American poets, yet he was also an inimitable letter writer. Leading international experts make the first concerted effort to study Stevens' letters as a...

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Nineteen Nineteen

Sep. 20, 2019

Organized around themes defined by the verbs "Fight" "Return" "Map" "Move" and "Build" the exhibition "Nineteen Nineteen" showcases items that embody an era in flux. Rare books posters letters...

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