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News Release - Iconic Blue Boy to be Subject of Major Two-Year Conservation Project, with an Exhibition Opening in 2018
Thu., Aug. 3, 2017One of the most famous paintings in British and American history, The Blue Boy, made around 1770 by English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), will undergo its first major technical examination and conservation treatment.
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Recent Lectures: April 17–July 27, 2017
Wed., Aug. 2, 2017 | Huntington StaffHome to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections. Featured are audio recordings of five recent lectures and conversations.
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Ascending Old Baldy
Wed., July 26, 2017 | Natalie RussellSummer is a time for enjoying the great outdoors, and what better way than by hiking and camping? That's as true today as it was more than a century ago, when one remarkable woman embarked on a 10-day camping trip in the San Gabriel Mountains with a group of friends.
Videos and Recorded Programs
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Mon., July 24, 2017Based on the acclaimed science fiction novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, a new graphic adaptation by Damian Duffy and illustrator John Jennings gives fresh form to Butler’s powerful tale of slavery, time travel, and the inexorable pull of the past. Duffy and Jennings discuss the continuing relevance of Butler’s writings and how it has influenced their own work.
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News Release - Exhibition to Reveal Abstract Painter Frederick Hammersley's Unique Creative Process, Meticulously Outlined in Personal Archives
Thu., July 20, 2017A fall exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on the American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) showcases his sketchbooks, notebooks, inventories, and vibrant color swatches to illuminate the painstaking process the artist used to create his hard-edge geometric paintings.
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A Different Kind of Beat Poet
Wed., July 19, 2017 | Adam BridgenMost of us have little experience of being thrown out of a garden. When I've been found wandering through The Huntington's orange groves (usually off-limits to visitors), at worst I'm asked by one of the polite staff to ramble somewhere less wild.
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Press Release - Tiffany Favrile Glass: Masterworks from the Collection of Stanley and Dolores Sirott
Tue., July 18, 2017Thirty-two exquisite glass vases designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, on loan from a private collection, will be featured in an exhibition opening this fall at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
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Flourishing Lily Ponds
Wed., July 12, 2017 | Linda ChiavaroliThe Lily Ponds, among the first garden features developed at The Huntington, are at their seasonal peak now. William Hertrich, Henry Huntington's first superintendent of the gardens, created the five descending ponds from natural springs