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Press Release - Yasuhiro Ishimoto's Photographs of Greene & Greene Architecture to Go on View for First Time in the U.S.
Tue., March 15, 2016Japanese-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. ThompsonKyoto-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, 2016Kip 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 DurkinTomorrow 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 RussellMeet 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.
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Evolution of a Van Dyck
Wed., March 2, 2016 | Diana W. ThompsonA major U.S. exhibition on Flemish master portrait artist Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) opens today at New York's Frick Collection. The Huntington has its own van Dyck story to tell. At its center is the artist's beautiful full-length painting Anne (Killigrew) Kirke
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Press Release - Major History of Medicine Collection Comes to The Huntington
Fri., Feb. 26, 2016The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has acquired one of the world’s most comprehensive collections on the history of human reproduction, the institution announced today. The Lawrence D. and Betty Jeanne Longo Collection on Reproductive Biology, composed of some 2,700 rare books
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For Neophiles, Aesthetes, and People Who Like to Eat
Thu., Feb. 25, 2016 | Thea PageSurprise! There are 11 new acquisitions on view in one room in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art right now. That's great news for neophiles, and even greater news for fans of representational art from the mid-20th century.





