Videos and Recorded Programs

Rose hybridizer Tom Carruth, the E. L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collections at The Huntington, discusses how he developed his newest floribunda, ‘Huntington’s 100th’, named in honor of the institution’s Centennial Celebration.

Rob Iliffe, professor of the history of science at the University of Oxford, discusses two little-known documents that reveal how Isaac Newton’s approach to prosecuting contemporary counterfeiters as a warden of the Royal Mint was closely related to his strategy for revealing the corruption of Christianity.

Toshi Reagon, acclaimed composer and lyricist, discusses her operatic adaption of Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction novel Parable of the Sower with special guests. Presented in association with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance.

Go behind-the-scenes with Rosten Woo, Dana Johnson, and Nina Katchadourian, as they explore The Huntington’s collections through the lens of Thomas More’s “Utopia.” Their research informed new works created for the exhibition “Beside the Edge of the World.”

The exhibition was co-curated by Clockshop as part of the /five initiative at The Huntington and also features the work of poet Robin Coste Lewis and artist Beatriz...

This conference introduces British art and social critic John Ruskin to a modern audience and makes the case for his continuing relevance in our own troubled time.

Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, revisits The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which was one of Henry Huntington’s most prized manuscript acquisitions. Franklin tells a tantalizingly open-ended story about his life because the manuscript was left unfinished.

Bill Esparza, author of “L.A. Mexicano: Recipes, People & Places,” and Elisa Callow, author of “The Urban Forager: Culinary Exploring & Eating on L.A.’s Eastside,” join award-winning journalist and L.A. chronicler Val Zavala in a Q&A about L.A. food culture. 

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