Videos and Recorded Programs
Videos about The Huntington and previously recorded lectures, programs, and conferences.
The Labor of Good Governance: Cultivation Real and Imagined in the Imperial Garden of Clear Ripples in 18th-Century China
Thu., May 20, 2021Roslyn 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 (1711–1799) had stone stele carved with scenes of men and women producing rice and silk, and he situated them in a reconstruction of a village in his Garden of Clear Ripples (Qing Yi Yuan, now known...
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...
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
Wed., May 19, 2021Join 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 of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the...
Labor and Laborers at The Huntington: A Work in Progress Discussion with Distinguished Professor Natalia Molina
Wed., May 12, 2021
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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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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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...