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Restoring Edward Mitchell Bannister’s Rightful Place in Art History
Tue., Oct. 15, 2024 | Lauren CrossIn 1876, Edward Mitchell Bannister became the first African American artist to win a national award. The Huntington’s Lauren Cross writes about what motivated him, whom he credited for his success, and how he shifted from being a portraitist to a landscape artist.
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Why It Matters: Daring Mighty Things with Charles Elachi
Wed., Oct. 9, 2024Charles 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.
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Nineteenth-Century Nature and Contemporary Photography
Tue., Oct. 8, 2024Contemporary 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.
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Mercedes Dorame: Everywhere Is West
Tue., Oct. 8, 2024 | Dennis CarrIn the spring of 2022, Tongva photographer Mercedes Dorame peered down at a tide pool on Santa Cruz Island, roughly 25 miles off the coast of California. Focusing her camera, she captured an image that provides a window into worlds.
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Las orquídeas de México y Guatemala
Tue., Oct. 1, 2024 | Natalie LawlerUn libro del siglo XIX sobre las orquídeas de Latinoamérica evoca una reflexión personal sobre la vulnerabilidad y la resiliencia de las plantas, el arte de la ilustración botánica y la poderosa función de los retratos como huellas perdurables de la memoria cultural.
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The Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala
Tue., Oct. 1, 2024 | Natalie LawlerA 19th-century book on Latin American orchids prompts a personal reflection on the vulnerability and resiliency of plants, the art of botanical illustration, and the power of portraits as markers of cultural memory.
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Rebeca Méndez on “Storm Cloud,” John Ruskin, and a Perfect Sky
Fri., Sept. 27, 2024 | Aric AllenArtist, 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.
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The Huntington to Present Major Retrospective on Prolific Los Angeles Artist Don Bachardy
Tue., Sept. 24, 2024“Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits” will feature more than 100 works of art and archival materials spanning over 70 years.