Videos and Recorded Programs

Hear and Now is a new podcast that connects the incomparable library, art, and botanical collections at The Huntington with the wider world. Join host Giovana Romano Sanchez for a series of short audio essays that explore objects and ideas found at The Huntington along with the brilliant minds behind them. What unfolds is an original take on the issues we are facing in the...

Join Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Reynaldo Rivera, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”

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Edward R. Bosley, Executive Director of The Gamble House, reveals the links between the architecture of Greene & Greene and their appreciation for Japanese architecture and design. Key factors include the Greenes’ education and exposure to Japanese design while students and apprentices in Boston (1888–1893), the expositions and publications that informed their developing artistic sense, and especially Charles Greene’s deeply introspective nature, which drew...

Join Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Patrick Jackson, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”

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Join Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Kahlil Joseph, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.” The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

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Drawing from materials in The Huntington’s collections, author Iris Jamahl Dunkle tells the story of the free-spirited and adventurous Charmian Kittredge London—wife of American author Jack London—as a literary trailblazer in her own right. She defied modern expectations of femininity through a life of fortitude and bravery, in many ways paralleling the history of the American West. This is the Ray Allen Billington Lecture in...

Join Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Niloufar Emamifar, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.” The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

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The Golden State Bonsai Federation presents its annual Huntington Bonsai-A-Thon virtually this year (due to COVID restrictions). Ted Matson, curator of the bonsai collection at The Huntington, hosts video tours of the bonsai courts, the Ben Oki Bonsai Nursery, and the “Lifelines/Timelines” bonsai exhibition. Phillip E. Bloom, the June and Simon K.C. Li Curator of the Chinese Garden and Director of the Center for East...