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Ben Jonson’s Readers

Wed., Dec. 7, 2016 | Jane Rickard

The poet and playwright Ben Jonson (1572–1637) was exceptionally concerned with literary posterity. His most ambitious publication was the folio collection of his Works that appeared 400 years ago this year.

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Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints

Mon., Dec. 5, 2016

This symposium, organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints,” explores the relationship and interaction between image and text in woodblock prints during the late Ming and Qing periods.

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The Huang Family of Block Cutters: The Thread that Binds Late Ming Pictorial Woodblock Printmaking

Thu., Dec. 1, 2016

David Barker, professor of printmaking at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, considers the important contributions made to Chinese pictorial printing by the famous Huang family of artisan block cutters.

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Viewing Sam Francis in Another Light

Wed., Nov. 30, 2016 | Nicole Block

I grew up in Southern California and have loved The Huntington since I first visited it on a high school field trip. Being an intern this past summer in the American art department was a dream come true.

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Histories of Data and the Database

Mon., Nov. 28, 2016

In the age of internet searches and social media, data has become hot—and not for the first time. An international group of historians will consider the promises, fears, practices, and technologies for recording and transmitting data in the 18th century to the present, including the implications for the lives of citizens and subjects.

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The Beard Makes the Man

Tue., Nov. 22, 2016 | James Fishburne

Is identity mutable? Can you alter who you are? Whether or not real transformation is achievable, it is possible to change how others view you. A new exhibition in the Huntington Art Gallery examines an age-old tool used in the effort to influence perception: facial hair. "A History of Whiskers: Facial Hair and Identity in European and American Art, 1750–1920" includes prints, drawings, and photographs

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The Brave New (and Old) World of Data

Thu., Nov. 17, 2016 | Theodore Porter, Soraya de Chadarevian

Data, made up of units so uniform as to be, almost by necessity, boring, unite to form collectives of information in a data-driven world that is recognized now as exciting, sexy, and consummately modern. And not for the first time, we must add.

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Hearing NASA’s Earth Science Satellites

Tue., Nov. 15, 2016 | Diana W. Thompson

As visual strategists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Dan Goods and David Delgado use art and design to explain science. Their newest project is the Orbit Pavilion sound experience, which recently opened at The Huntington. The large silver structure sits on the Celebration Lawn by the terrace of the 1919 café.

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