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Weird, Wild & Wonderful
Fri., June 12, 2015 | Susan Turner-LoweThe botanical world is full of surprises, as any of the thousands of people who've visited the Amorphophallus titanum in bloom might tell you. Wild sizes, outrageous colors, complex patterns, otherworldly shapes
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Press Release - Artists' Interpretations of Crowds Explored in Huntington Exhibition Opening This Fall
Tue., June 9, 2015A focused loan exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will explore the various ways in which American artists have represented crowds in modern urban life. “A World of Strangers: Crowds in American Art” is on view from Oct. 17, 2015, to April 4, 2016, in the Huntington Art Gallery.
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Running at Runnymede
Tue., June 9, 2015 | Tim HarrisWe asked Tim Harris, professor of European History at Brown University and the 2014–15 Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, to share his memories as an English youth in the environs of Runnymede
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It’s All About the Soil
Tue., June 2, 2015 | Kyra SaegusaAs a research horticulturist and coordinator of the Huntington Ranch Garden, I spend my days on this half-acre experimental site working to create a balance between a productive garden, a livable space, and a wildish ecosystem.
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Restoring a Doyle Lane Mural
Fri., May 29, 2015 | Kevin DurkinLos Angeles ceramist Doyle Lane (1925–2002) became known for his collectible "weed pots," as he called his vases with small openings for holding a few stems, and for what he called "clay paintings"—geometric and boldly colored ceramic disks—that have been compared
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A Hollywood Master Remembered
Tue., May 26, 2015 | Natalie RussellFor Americans looking for respite from the Great Depression and later World War II, the entertainment industry provided welcome relief. Los Angeles in the 1930s and 40s was a hotbed of film and theater production
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Conserving a Classic Book on Sunspots
Fri., May 22, 2015 | Jennifer EversOn my last day as the Dibner Conservator for the History of Science collection at The Huntington, I want to share one of the more interesting and complex conservation treatments I've completed here
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Three Artists, Three Visions
Thu., May 21, 2015 | James GlissonAfrican-American Art at The HuntingtonThe Huntington continues to fill in gaps in its collecting areas, most recently by homing in on works by African-American artists.






