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Saving the Birds

Thu., March 24, 2016 | Daniel Lewis, Ph.D.
The Huntington acquires the papers of an award-winning Hawaiian naturalistWhen it comes to the study of Hawaiian birds, few scientists can rival Sheila Conant, professor emerita and former chair of the zoology department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
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The Flowering of Color Printing

Mon., March 21, 2016 | David H. Mihaly
In "The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920"—the exhibition on view in The Huntington's MaryLou and George Boone Gallery through May 9—you can catch a glimpse of a 19th-century innovation
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Oil Exploration, Family, and Photography

Thu., March 17, 2016 | Noeme Santana
Ralph Arnold (1875–1961) was an eminent petroleum engineer, geologist, local Pasadena resident—and an avid photographer. Photography was an essential part of his fieldwork, but he also used the medium to document his family life.
News

Press Release - Yasuhiro Ishimoto's Photographs of Greene & Greene Architecture to Go on View for First Time in the U.S.

Tue., March 15, 2016
Japanese-American photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s photographs of Greene & Greene architecture will be shown for the first time in the United States in a focused loan exhibition on view at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from June 18 through Oct. 3, 2016.
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Pruning, Kyoto-style

Mon., March 14, 2016 | Diana W. Thompson
Kyoto-based landscape architect Takuhiro Yamada stood in The Huntington's Japanese tea garden and gazed at the trees and shrubs near the Seifu-an teahouse. For inspiration, he closed his eyes and imagined that he was in Japan.
Videos and Recorded Programs

From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Gravitational Waves

Fri., March 11, 2016

Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, describes the ideas underlying general relativity and the amazing discoveries about warped spacetime that have been made in the past 100 years.

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Einstein’s Still Making Waves

Thu., March 10, 2016 | Diana Kormos-Buchwald, Kevin Durkin
Tomorrow The Huntington will cohost the second day of Caltech's sixth biennial Francis Bacon Conference, "General Relativity at One Hundred." The conference runs from March 10–12, with the first and third days taking place at Caltech.
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Volunteering to Decipher Paul Conrad

Mon., March 7, 2016 | Natalie Russell
Meet Huntington volunteer Dennis Harbach. Over the past two years, Harbach has laughed, cried, and winced his way through the gargantuan task of producing searchable metadata for the satirical cartoons in the Paul Conrad papers.