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News Release - Chinese Garden’s New Art Gallery Will Make its Debut with an Inaugural Exhibition Featuring Contemporary Calligraphy
Jun. 3, 2021
Postponed for more than a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the highly anticipated opening of the Chinese Garden's new art gallery is now scheduled to take place this summer  ...
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Fear of Poetry Screening with Jack Skelley and Sabrina Tarasoff
Jun. 2, 2021
Join writer Jack Skelley and "Made in L.A. 2020" artist Sabrina Tarasoff for a virtual screening and conversation on Gail Kaszynski's 1983 documentary Fear of Poetry. Kaszynski's film is an improvisatory...
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Lunchtime Art Talk on Ann Greene Kelly
Jun. 2, 2021
Join Nika Chilewich, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Ann Greene Kelly, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made...
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Bless This House
Jun. 2, 2021 by Lisa Blackburn
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Offerings of fruit, rice cakes, fish, and wine; humble gifts of pine sprigs; scatterings of salt; rhythmic chants; and a taiko drum’s deep resonant tones soaring skyward to invoke the spirits. These...
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News Release - Huntington Adds Eight Members to Board of Governors
May. 27, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has announced that eight new members will join its Board of Governors, effective July 1, 2021 ...
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Lecture
White Supremacy in the West: Immigration and Racial Justice in Southern California
May. 26, 2021
Professor Kathleen Belew in Conversation with Distinguished Professor and MacArthur Fellow Natalia Molina Historian Kathleen Belew, CNN contributor and author of Bring the War Home, gives us the history...
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History
May. 26, 2021
Karlos K. Hill, Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, discusses his new book The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre:...
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Lunchtime Art Talk on Jeffrey Stuker
May. 26, 2021
Join Lauren Mackler, co-curator of "Made in L.A. 2020: a version," for this short and insightful discussion about artist Jeffrey Stuker, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition
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Frontiers
West of Slavery
May. 26, 2021
 
When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-19th century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through official diplomatic channels, migration, and armed...
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The Labor of Good Governance: Cultivation Real and Imagined in the Imperial Garden of Clear Ripples in 18th-Century China
May. 20, 2021
Roslyn Lee Hammers, associate professor of art history at the University of Hong Kong, discusses depictions of rural life produced for an 18th-century Chinese emperor's residence. The Qianlong emperor...
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Lunchtime Art Talk on SON. (Justen LeRoy)
May. 19, 2021
Join Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance, for this short and insightful discussion about artist SON. (Justen LeRoy), as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the...
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Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
May. 19, 2021
Join us as George J. Sanchez, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, discusses his book on the neighborhood of Boyle Heights with four USC doctoral students Boyle Heights is an in-depth history...
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