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Isherwood, Auden, and Spender Before the Second World War

Mon., Sept. 25, 2017

Author and sculptor Matthew Spender talks about the friendship between his father, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, from the late 1920s until Auden and Isherwood emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s. He focuses on the intense relationships between these three British writers, their homeland, and Nazi Germany. This talk is part of the Isherwood-Bachardy Lecture Series at The Huntington.

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For They Are Excellent Fellows

Thu., Sept. 21, 2017

This is one of the most exhilarating times at The Huntington—when the new cadre of research fellows arrive on our beautiful campus to explore our collections and take part in the intellectual life of this institution.

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Sandra L. Brooke, Princeton Librarian, Appointed Avery Director of the Library at The Huntington

Wed., Sept. 20, 2017

Sandra Ludig Brooke, Librarian of the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, has been named the Avery Director of the Library at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, The Huntington's Interim President, Steve Hindle, announced today.

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A Stunning and Sacred Cape

Mon., Sept. 18, 2017 | Daniela Bleichmar

In this edited excerpt from the introduction to the exhibition catalog, Visual Voyages (Yale University Press, 2017), Daniela Bleichmar, associate professor of art history and history at the University of Southern California and co-curator of the exhibition, focuses on a 17th-century feathered cape created by the Tupinambá people of Brazil.

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Early Modern Collections in Use

Fri., Sept. 15, 2017

Early modern collections played a key role in the creation and transmission of knowledge, but they are usually studied in terms of the objects they contained or how they came to exist. This conference instead explores how they were actually used in the 16th and 17th centuries. The conference was held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

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Early Modern Collections in Use

Thu., Sept. 14, 2017 | Anne Goldgar

In the first half of the 18th century, Hans Sloane (1660–1753)—the collector, physician, and president of the Royal Society—was the acknowledged center of a web of international relationships that brought objects, letters, and visitors into his house

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Artists in the Library

Mon., Sept. 11, 2017 | Catherine G. Wagley, Emily Lacy

A photograph of the actress, director, and producer Olga Nethersole (1867–1951) shows her descending from a pedestal on which she had been posing as a statue. Men crouch and kneel beneath her.

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Making History Personal

Wed., Sept. 6, 2017 | Lisa Blackburn

It's one thing to read about history in a school textbook. It's quite another thing to engage with it first-hand: to make personal connections with history and, by doing so, to gain perspectives on the past.