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Lecture
Conversation: Nathan Wang and Lisa See on "On Gold Mountain"
Thu., April 21, 2022
Chinese American composer Nathan Wang, the 2022-23 Cheng Family Foundation Visiting Artist in the Chinese Garden, will introduce his remarkable career and the development of the opera "On Gold Mountain" in collaboration with renowned author Lisa See.
Lecture
Skill, Speed, and Diplomacy: The Artistic Achievement of Don Bachardy
Tue., April 19, 2022
Robert Flynn Johnson, curator emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, discusses how Don Bachardy was one of the most insightful draftsmen of his era.
Video
Witnessing the Invisible: An Air Pump in the Art Gallery
Mon., April 18, 2022
An exhibition centered around Joseph Wright of Derby's masterpiece "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" becomes a starting point to examine how witnessing experiments with air pumps were critically important for the transfer of scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment and after.
Lecture
Wonder and Wonders: Eighteenth-Century Science and the Imagination
Wed., April 13, 2022
Tita Chico, professor at the University of Maryland, explores how the concept of wonder during the eighteenth century helps us to see the imaginative underpinnings of how we come to understand the natural world and its various phenomena.
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Temples in the Cliffside: Buddhist Art in Sichuan
Thu., March 31, 2022
In her new book, Temples in the Cliffside: Buddhist Art in Sichuan, Sonya Lee argues that centuries-old religious monuments can be part of the world's sustainable future.
Lecture
From Darkness to Light: In Conversation About Joseph Wright of Derby's "Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump"
Wed., March 30, 2022
In response to Mathew Craske's prize winning recent biography of Joseph Wright of Derby, Huntington curators Joel Klein and Melinda McCurdy discuss Wright's iconic painting, Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (1768) in the exhibition, "Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wr
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In Conversation with Ourselves: Wright of Derby’s "Air Pump" as a Modern Moral Subject
Wed., March 9, 2022
In this lecture, renowned art historian David Solkin shows how Joseph Wright of Derby constructed conflicting messages out of an eclectic mix of elements drawn from different pictorial traditions in An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump and asks us to consider the artwork's relevance today.
Lecture
Founders’ Day Lecture - Charles Yu in Conversation with Simon K.C. Li
Wed., March 2, 2022
For The Huntington's 2022 Founders' Day celebration, acclaimed writer Charles Yu joins Huntington Trustee Simon K.C. Li to discuss Yu's experiences writing in multiple genres, the role of fiction in constructing identity, current U.S. dialogues about race and identity, and more.
Lecture
Sitting With Sarony
Wed., Feb. 23, 2022
In this lecture, David Shields, professor of English language and literature at the University of South Carolina, discusses how Napoleon Sarony (1821–1896) singlehandedly dismantled the traditions of portrait photography in 19th-century America and devised a new photographic ideal.
Lecture
Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Thu., Feb. 17, 2022
In his book, Ordering the Myriad Things, Nicholas K.
Lecture
Blasting into Space: The Poetics of Faith and Astronomy in 17th-Century England
Wed., Feb. 16, 2022
In this lecture, Wendy Wall, Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University, describes how 17th-century woman Hester Pulter, while sick and confined to her bedroom after giving birth to her 15th child, sought solace in an unusual way: she wrote poems about taking off into space to explore
Conference
Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of “Ulysses”
Thu., Feb. 3, 2022
Celebrate the publication centennial of James Joyce's Ulysses in a two-day conference at The Huntington.