Videos and Recorded Programs
Videos about The Huntington and previously recorded lectures, programs, and conferences.
Lunchtime Art Talk on SON. (Justen LeRoy)
Wed., May 19, 2021Join 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 exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”
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The Huntington Library’s Gutenberg Bible and the Art of the Book in 15th-Century Europe
Wed., May 19, 2021Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at Princeton University, investigates the history and art of The Huntington’s Gutenberg Bible, beginning with the beautiful black-ink printing on fine vellum in Mainz ca. 1455, continuing with the magnificent hand-illumination of the initial letters, borders and the original leather binding in a faraway city, and including the long-forgotten addition...
Lunchtime Art Talk on Umar Rashid
Wed., May 12, 2021Join Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Umar Rashid, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”
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Labor and Laborers at The Huntington: A Work in Progress Discussion with Distinguished Professor Natalia Molina
Wed., May 12, 2021
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
Wed., May 5, 2021Kevin Waite, assistant professor of history at Durham University, discusses his new book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, with Alice Baumgartner, assistant professor of history at USC, and Andrés Reséndez, professor of history at UC Davis.
Beginning in the 1840s, Southern slaveholders launched a series of campaigns to extend their political power across the American West. They passed slave codes in...
Lunchtime Art Talk on Sabrina Tarasoff
Wed., May 5, 2021Join Lauren Mackler, co-curator of “Made in L.A. 2020: a version,” for this short and insightful discussion about artist Sabrina Tarasoff, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”
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Lunchtime Art Talk on Alexandra Noel
Wed., April 28, 2021Join Erin Christovale, associate curator at the Hammer, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Alexandra Noel, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”
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The Tale of Genji: Imaged and Reimagined
Thu., April 22, 2021In this Genshitsu Sen lecture, Dr. Bruce A. Coats, professor of art history and the humanities at Scripps College, surveys the extraordinary literary and visual art traditions inspired by the 11th-century novel The Tale of Genji, written by Japanese court lady Murasaki Shikibu, with an emphasis on how the novel has been imaged and reimagined for a millennium.
Photo caption: Ebina Masao (1913–1980), The Tale of Genji:...