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Videos about The Huntington and previously recorded lectures, programs, and conferences.

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Niloufar Emamifar

Wed., March 3, 2021

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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Virtual Bonsai-A-Thon 2021

Sat., Feb. 27, 2021

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...

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Buck Ellison

Wed., Feb. 24, 2021

Join Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Buck Ellison, 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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Founders' Day Lecture - Mapping and Memory: Activating the Huntingtons’ Collecting Legacy

Wed., Feb. 24, 2021

Dennis Carr, Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art gives brief remarks before being joined in conversation with artist Sandy Rodriguez, 2020-2021 Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Fellow. Together, they reexamine the Huntington family’s legacy and interest in the Spanish-speaking world and pose possibilities for how The Huntington can expand the stories represented in its galleries and exhibitions.

Founders’ Day is observed annually at The Huntington...

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Screening: deader than dead with Ligia Lewis & Mlondi Zondi

Sun., Feb. 21, 2021

Movement artist and scholar Mlondi Zondi joins Made in L.A. 2020 artist Ligia Lewis in conversation, followed by a screening of Lewis’s dance performance deader than dead (2020). Conceived, choreographed, and directed by Lewis for Made in L.A., deader than dead was originally intended to be a live performance held within the Hammer’s galleries but was postponed due to the pandemic. The film not only...

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The Garden as Feminine Lettered Space in "The Story of the Stone" and Beyond

Thu., Feb. 18, 2021
Dr. Wai-yee Li, professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University, explores how different types of literary activities are defined by garden design and spatial setting in The Story of the Stone (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715?–ca. 1763).
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Lunchtime Art Talk on Ser Serpas

Wed., Feb. 17, 2021

Join Connie Butler, chief curator at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Ser Serpas, 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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Conversation with Fulton Leroy Washington (aka MR. WASH) & Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi

Thu., Feb. 11, 2021

The artist Fulton Leroy Washington (aka MR. WASH) joins Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi in conversation. The pair discusses MR. WASH’s painting practice—which has focused on portraits of public figures and individuals the artist met while incarcerated—and his participation in the Hammer’s biennial. For “Made in L.A. 2020: a version,” the artist’s paintings are presented at both the Hammer and...