Skip to content

OPEN TODAY: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.

Tickets

Watch, Read, Listen


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

Videos and Recorded Programs

Founders' Day Lecture - Mapping and Memory: Activating the Huntingtons’ Collecting Legacy

Wed., Feb. 24, 2021

Dennis Carr, Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art gives brief remarks before being joined in conversation with artist Sandy Rodriguez, 2020-2021 Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Fellow. Together, they reexamine the Huntington family’s legacy and interest in the Spanish-speaking world and pose possibilities for how The Huntington can expand the stories represented in its galleries and exhibitions.

Founders’ Day is observed annually at The Huntington in honor of Henry and Arabella Huntington’s roles in envisioning and establishing the institution.

Videos and Recorded Programs

Lunchtime Art Talk on Buck Ellison

Wed., Feb. 24, 2021

Join Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Buck Ellison, 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.

WATCH

Videos and Recorded Programs

Screening: deader than dead with Ligia Lewis & Mlondi Zondi

Sun., Feb. 21, 2021

Movement artist and scholar Mlondi Zondi joins Made in L.A. 2020 artist Ligia Lewis in conversation, followed by a screening of Lewis’s dance performance deader than dead (2020). Conceived, choreographed, and directed by Lewis for Made in L.A., deader than dead was originally intended to be a live performance held within the Hammer’s galleries but was postponed due to the pandemic. The film not only documents a performance of the piece, it represents the potential of a live performance to come. Q&A follows the screening. The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

WATCH

Verso

Amplifying Black History

Fri., Feb. 19, 2021 | Lucy Spriggs
The year 2020 was like no other, from the devastation wrought by COVID-19 to the political turmoil and nationwide protests against systemic racism and injustice that erupted after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor.
Videos and Recorded Programs

The Garden as Feminine Lettered Space in "The Story of the Stone" and Beyond

Thu., Feb. 18, 2021
Dr. Wai-yee Li, professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University, explores how different types of literary activities are defined by garden design and spatial setting in The Story of the Stone (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715?–ca. 1763).
Videos and Recorded Programs

Lunchtime Art Talk on Ser Serpas

Wed., Feb. 17, 2021

Join Connie Butler, chief curator at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Ser Serpas, 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.

WATCH

Videos and Recorded Programs

Conversation with Fulton Leroy Washington (aka MR. WASH) & Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi

Thu., Feb. 11, 2021

The artist Fulton Leroy Washington (aka MR. WASH) joins Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi in conversation. The pair discusses MR. WASH’s painting practice—which has focused on portraits of public figures and individuals the artist met while incarcerated—and his participation in the Hammer’s biennial. For “Made in L.A. 2020: a version,” the artist’s paintings are presented at both the Hammer and The Huntington. The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

WATCH

Verso

“The Paths of Honour, Truth and Virtue”

Wed., Feb. 10, 2021 | Olga Tsapina, Ph.D.
On April 8, 1777, John Adams, the future second president of the United States, wrote a letter to "Mr. John Quincy Adams," his eldest son and the future sixth president.