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Author Archives: Thea Page
Thea M. Page is the assistant vice president for Communications and Marketing at The Huntington.
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In theory, putting on an art exhibition is a rather formulaic process. You develop a theme, select works, design a layout for the gallery, and then, in the final weeks before opening, the show is installed...
Everyone who visited The Huntington noticed him Standing eight feet high, on a two-foot pedestal, the figure of the god of the sea, Neptune, loomed large over all who passed in front of the Library building...
Huntington curators call the second half of the 18th century England's "golden age of mezzotint." Invented in the 1600s, the engraving technique was little used until it exploded in popularity in the mid...
One of the French rooms in the Huntington Art Gallery just got a little fancier. Arranged among paintings like the Knitter Asleep by Jean Baptiste Greuze and The Country Dance by Jean-Antoine Watteau are...
While The Huntington was closed to visitors on Tuesday, a crew of several preparators and curators mounted a big 400-pound marble bust of George Washington in the upstairs hallway of the Huntington Art...
The pedestrian blue, red, and white of the Brillo boxes are shocking. They catch your eye before you even enter the gallery, signaling that something different is going on in that room—very unlike the...
Christopher Slatoff is a figurative sculptor who works in bronze, just like Giovanni Battista Foggini, Corneille van Clève, and the other artists featured in the exhibition...
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You never know what will happen when Melinda McCurdy's phone rings
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The year 2020 was like no other, from the devastation wrought by COVID-19 to the political turmoil and nationwide protests against systemic racism and injustice that erupted after the brutal killings of...
On April 8, 1777, John Adams, the future second president of the United States, wrote a letter to "Mr. John Quincy Adams," his eldest son and the future sixth president
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