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Join Erin Christovale, associate curator at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Brandon D. Landers, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.” The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

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On the occasion of winning The Huntington’s inaugural Shapiro Book Prize for The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History, professor Benjamin Francis-Fallon discusses how Latina/o leaders in the U.S. first came to see themselves as belonging to one political community, exploring their attempts to establish mutual bonds and pass legislation and analyzing how both major political parties attempted to co-opt this emerging constituency and reshape it in their own image.

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Join Aram Moshayedi, Robert Soros Curator at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Jill Mulleady, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.” The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

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Join Nika Chilewich, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Katja Seib, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.” The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

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Join Huntington Library curators and members of the trade, library, and collecting communities for a panel discussion on individual and institutional collecting today. Moderated by Claudia Funke and Erin Chase—curators of the Huntington exhibition “What Now: Collecting for the Library in the 21st Century”—the conversation will address the significance of collecting in this unprecedented period and include perspectives from the Huntington, greater Los Angeles, and beyond.

Moderators
Claudia Funke, Avery Chief Curator and Associate Director of Library Collections, The Huntington
Erin Chase, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Photography, The Huntington

Panelists
Brad Johnson, Johnson Rare Books & Archives, and President, Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA)
Todd Lerew, Director of Special Projects, Library Foundation of Los Angeles (LFLA), and curator of the Los Angeles Public Library exhibition “21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story”
Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Huntington donor
Nancy Rosin, President Emerita, Ephemera Society of America, and collector, The Nancy and Henry Rosin Collection of Valentine, Friendship, and Devotional Ephemera at The Huntington
Joel Klein, Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, The Huntington
Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections, The Huntington

This event is presented in partnership with the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles as part of Virtual Bibliography Week.