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Evelyn Waugh as Reader, Writer, Collector

Wed., May 3, 2017 | Chip Long, Barbara Cooke

Early in his life, the celebrated British writer Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) thought he'd make furniture for a living; he also studied art. While he ultimately abandoned those paths, his desire to make beautiful things never ceased.

Videos and Recorded Programs

Exoplanet Genetics

Mon., May 1, 2017

Johanna Teske, Carnegie Origins Postdoctoral Fellow, will highlight new discoveries about exoplanets including how their composition is “inherited” from their host star.

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Five Lessons Learned in the California Garden

Thu., April 27, 2017 | Diana W. Thompson

As you stroll through the Frances and Sidney Brody California Garden, you may find it hard to believe that, just a few years ago, the same space was used primarily as a walkway and parking lot.

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Preserving the Signs of Censorship

Mon., April 24, 2017 | Kristi Westberg

Five hundred years before government officials in some countries got in the business of censoring Instagram feeds or Twitter accounts, the Roman Catholic Church was using ink to black out text that it considered dangerous.

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Press Release - Sweeping International Loan Exhibition to Explore Images of Latin American Nature From the Late 1400s to the Mid-1800s

Mon., April 24, 2017

A sweeping international loan exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will explore how the depiction of Latin American nature contributed to art and science between the late 1400s and the mid-1800s.

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Big Bonsai? Not Really

Fri., April 21, 2017 | Diana W. Thompson

For Kyoto-based landscape designer Takuhiro Yamada, the tea garden he designed in The Huntington's Japanese Garden is a work in progress. Each year, he returns to check on its development and chooses a few areas where he can help infuse the plants

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Recent Lectures: Feb. 23–April 12, 2017

Wed., April 19, 2017 | Huntington Staff

Home 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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West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century

Tue., April 18, 2017

“The sun is but a morning star.” Walden’s famous last line points eastward to the sunrise; but Henry David Thoreau also wrote of the west, the sunset, and day’s end. To mark Thoreau’s bicentennial year, this conference poses the question: How can we read Thoreau from the sundown side, the far west of his imagination?

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Evelyn Waugh as Reader, Writer, Collector

Wed., May 3, 2017 | Chip Long, Barbara Cooke

Videos and Recorded Programs

Exoplanet Genetics

Mon., May 1, 2017

Johanna Teske, Carnegie Origins Postdoctoral Fellow, will highlight new discoveries about exoplanets including how their composition is “inherited” from their host star.

Verso

Five Lessons Learned in the California Garden

Thu., April 27, 2017 | Diana W. Thompson

As you stroll through the Frances and Sidney Brody California Garden, you may find it hard to believe that, just a few years ago, the same space was used primarily as a walkway and parking lot.

Verso

Preserving the Signs of Censorship

Mon., April 24, 2017 | Kristi Westberg

News

Press Release - Sweeping International Loan Exhibition to Explore Images of Latin American Nature From the Late 1400s to the Mid-1800s

Mon., April 24, 2017

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