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Press Release - Composer Huang Ruo 黃若 Named 2017 Visiting Artist at The Huntington
Fri., Jan. 20, 2017
Robert Seymour, 19th-Century Political Cartoonist
Wed., Jan. 18, 2017 | Ian Haywood
Frederick Hammersley's Remarkable Account of his Painting Practice & Materials
Wed., Jan. 18, 2017Abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) kept meticulous documentation of his painting process and materials. His Painting Books, compiled over the course of nearly 40 years, describe in detail the creation of hundreds of individual works. Scientist Alan Phenix of the Getty Conservation Institute will survey the technical content of the Painting Books, with particular focus on matters that have significance for the care and conservation of Hammersley’s works.
The Value of Patents: A Historian’s Perspective
Fri., Jan. 13, 2017Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University, discusses the important ways in which patents have contributed to technological innovation over the course of U.S. history.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution
Fri., Jan. 13, 2017Christopher Brown, professor of history at Columbia University, explores the relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the American Revolution, two themes that are usually treated separately.
