Videos and Recorded Programs

Join Connie Butler, chief curator at the Hammer, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Aria Dean, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”

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On April 8, 1949, a three-year-old girl fell down an abandoned water well in San Marino, California. The television coverage of the rescue attempt tapped into the deep spring of attention that a live broadcast can bring to news. Historian William Deverell visits the site of the tragic accident and discusses how the failed rescue of Kathy Fiscus previewed the wave of change that television...

Join our digital library team for an overview of the process of digitizing documents to make them available to researchers in the Huntington Digital Library. The team demonstrates the steps to digitize the illustrated 15th-century bestiary, Dialogus Creaturarum, ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus and the Milanese doctor Mayno de Mayneriis. This event is part of the ongoing webinar series The Multi-Storied Library, presented by the library’s...

Join Nika Chilewich, curatorial assistant at the Hammer, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Kandis Williams, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”

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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 Dennis Carr, The Huntington’s chief curator of American art, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Christina Forrer, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”

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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...