Videos and Recorded Programs

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

Lecture

Goya’s Portraits and a New Prize for The Huntington

Wed., Dec. 4, 2024

Join Frederick Ilchman, chair of the Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as he explores Francisco Goya’s extraordinary achievements in portraiture. This lecture highlights The Huntington’s newly acquired “Portrait of José Antonio Caballero” (1807) and delves into Goya’s masterful portrayal of society.

Lecture

The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, Liberated Futures along Phantom Shores

Wed., Oct. 16, 2024

Alison Hirsch, associate professor at USC and the Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow, discusses the history and future of Tulare Lake, which reemerged after multiple atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023.

Events

Why It Matters: Daring Mighty Things with Charles Elachi

Wed., Oct. 9, 2024

Charles Elachi, the former director of NASA and Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talked with Huntington President Karen Lawrence about the importance of daring to take risks, environmental stewardship, and the mutually enriching interactions among the arts, humanities, and sciences.

Lecture

Nineteenth-Century Nature and Contemporary Photography

Tue., Oct. 8, 2024

Contemporary voices in the exhibition “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis” bring forward questions of environmental history to the present. This conversation covers topics such as land extraction, human influence on plants, environmental injustice, immigration, photographic technologies, and reparative histories.

Art

Rebeca Méndez on “Storm Cloud,” John Ruskin, and a Perfect Sky

Fri., Sept. 27, 2024 | Aric Allen

Artist, designer, and UCLA professor Rebeca Méndez discusses her work Any-Instant-Whatever (2020), which is featured in “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis,” one of The Huntington’s exhibitions for PST ART: Art & Science Collide.

Botanical

41st Annual Succulent Plants Symposium

Fri., Aug. 30, 2024

Notable speakers from around the world cover diverse topics including succulents of South Africa, Madagascar, and Taiwan, the history of Agaves in the Southwestern United States, an enduring scholarly legacy, and a new campaign against the illegal plant trade.

Research

The Huntington’s Exchange Fellowships Partners Webinar

Tue., Aug. 13, 2024

Huntington Exchange Fellowship partners discuss the archives and collections available to prospective applicants and the application process.

Events

A Conversation with Kevin Kwan - “Lies and Weddings: A Novel”

Sat., June 15, 2024

Kevin Kwan, author of the New York Times bestseller “Crazy Rich Asians,” speaks about his new book, “Lies and Weddings: A Novel,” with Christina Nielsen, director of The Huntington’s Art Museum.