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EXHIBITIONS | Coaching Citizenship

Fri., Nov. 1, 2013 | Jennifer Goldman
Next Saturday, Nov. 9, "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library" will open in the Main Hall of the Library, a new installation of The Huntington's Library treasures. Anchoring 12 sections will be key works
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Tapping a New Mine of Research

Tue., Oct. 29, 2013 | Matt Stevens
Sutter's Mill. Forty-niners panning for gold. Lottery of the Golden Ingot? If you thought you knew everything about the California Gold Rush, think again.
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How Do You Frame a Masterpiece?

Thu., Oct. 24, 2013 | Catherine Hess
In 1921, Henry and Arabella Huntington purchased what would become the most famous work of art in their collection: The Blue Boy (1770) by Thomas Gainsborough. Its celebrity rests on many factors, not least of which is the superb quality of the painting
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VIDERE | Frame [video]

Fri., Oct. 18, 2013 | Kate Lain
Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington.
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Just What Bugs Us

Thu., Oct. 17, 2013
In times past, nature delivered challenges in an orderly manner. Every few years we'd hear about a remarkable new pest or disease that threatened whole populations of plants throughout Southern California.
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Orchid Masquerade

Mon., Oct. 14, 2013 | Matt Stevens
This weekend The Huntington hosts the annual Southland Orchid Show in the Botanical Center's Banta Hall. Billed this year as "Orchid Masquerade," the show promises to present exotic blooms
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Monumental and Melodious

Fri., Oct. 11, 2013 | Susan Turner-Lowe
You may recall a curious story about lost-and-found art that ran in The New York Times last year—a news piece that explained how a long overlooked monumental sculpture of celebrated artist Sargent Claude Johnson (1888–1967) emerged from decades
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In Praise of Penwork

Thu., Oct. 10, 2013 | Matt Stevens
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote and spoke often about the craft of writing—the physical act of putting pen to paper. In his Nobel Lecture in 1995, Heaney paid homage to the great writers who preceded him.