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News, stories, features, videos and podcasts by The Huntington.

The Art of Sargent Claude Johnson

Tue., April 2, 2024 | John P. Bowles, Jacqueline Francis, Dennis Carr

Scholars reexamine Sargent Claude Johnson’s life and work through a new lens, exploring his role within the development of American modernism and his influence among artists. From sculptures of underrepresented subjects to majestic architectural commissions, Johnson’s oeuvre is viewed within an expansive framework of global modernism.

Videos and Recorded Programs

The Japanese Shōya House: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Architecture

Thu., March 28, 2024

Yukio Lippit, professor of Japanese art and architecture at Harvard University, discusses how The Huntington’s Shōya House offers a unique opportunity to explore an abundance of ideas and elements about Japanese architecture as a whole.

Videos and Recorded Programs

Hdoc: Finding Judith

Thu., March 28, 2024 | Aric Allen

Honor Sachs, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a historian of early America whose research focuses on slavery, law, and family. She is currently writing a multigenerational history of an enslaved family that sued for freedom claiming Indigenous ancestry.

News

The Huntington to Present “Albrecht Dürer: Wanderlust”

Tue., March 26, 2024

New exhibition explores how German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer’s travels to Italy and beyond, and the cultural exchange with his contemporaries, transformed European art.

June 1–Sept. 23, 2024
Huntington Art Gallery

Frontiers

A Book Older than God: The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine

Tue., March 26, 2024 | Daniel Lewis, Ph.D.

The rings of bristlecone pines, the planet’s longest-living trees, chronicle past details about changes in the climate and other environmental variations of global significance. The Huntington’s Daniel Lewis explores this topic and more in his book “Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future.”

Videos and Recorded Programs

Multi-Storied Library: Lasting Impressions – Hand Printing in Practice

Fri., March 22, 2024

The Huntington holds one of the largest collections of William Morris’ Kelmscott Press books in the world. Join Library staff for a deep dive into Morris’ artistic philosophy and handmade approach to printing during a time when the industry was moving toward mass production.

Videos and Recorded Programs

The Role of the Japanese Tea Hut in Understanding the Way of Tea

Fri., March 22, 2024

Bruce Sosei Hamana, a tea ceremony expert with the Urasenke Tankokai Federation, discusses the “chashitsu,” the traditional tearoom.

Verso

Eve Babitz, Collage Artist

Tue., March 19, 2024 | Sarah Francis

Before Eve Babitz became a published writer, she was a visual artist, and her chosen medium was collage. Inspired by Joseph Cornell and Andy Warhol, she created the album cover art for Buffalo Springfield’s “Buffalo Springfield Again” and The Byrds’ “Untitled.”

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Frontiers

June 1–Sept. 23, 2024
Huntington Art Gallery

Frontiers

Verso

Eve Babitz, Collage Artist

Tue., March 19, 2024 | Sarah Francis