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GardenLust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens

Wed., Dec. 12, 2018

Award-winning horticulturist Chris Woods describes the most arresting features in public parks, botanic gardens, and private estates in locations ranging from New Delhi and Dubai to Chile and Australia from his book GardenLust. Throughout, he reveals the fascinating people, plants, and stories that make these gardens so lust-worthy.

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Moving Landscapes: Gardens and Gardening in the Transatlantic World, 1670–1830

Fri., Dec. 7, 2018

Focusing on the imagination and creation of gardens in the disparate geographies of 18th-century Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, this conference explores transatlantic ideas of nation, location, and self, and asks how the experience of gardens might be shared across nations, oceans, and cultures.

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Moving Landscapes

Thu., Dec. 6, 2018 | Stephen Bending, Jennifer Milam

What do we mean by an "English," a "French," or an "American" garden? What are the differences between them in the early modern transatlantic world, and what might they—or those who experience them—still share?

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News Release - Exhibition on Contemporary British Artist Celia Paul to Come to The Huntington

Tue., Dec. 4, 2018

Seven paintings by contemporary British artist Celia Paul (born 1959) will be on view Feb. 9 to July 8, 2019, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The eponymously titled exhibition "Celia Paul," is curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als

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The Prayer Book of Mary, Queen of Scots

Mon., Dec. 3, 2018 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.

The family feud between England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) and her cousin, the Scottish Queen Mary (1542–1587)—not "Bloody" Mary, Elizabeth's half-sister—has fascinated people since the 16th century.

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Resplendent Reunion

Thu., Nov. 29, 2018 | Thea Page

Something rare and golden will be unveiled in the Huntington Art Gallery this weekend. Beginning Dec. 1, four tempera-with-gold-leaf panels from an altarpiece by Florentine Renaissance master Cosimo Rosselli (1439–1507) can be seen reunited on the same wall, hung in a beautiful new display after more than 200 years of separation.

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Rituals of Labor and Engagement

Wed., Nov. 21, 2018 | Carribean Fragoza

When push comes to shove, there are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who will either run away from a fire or a fist fight, and the kind who will run toward it to get a closer look.

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A History of the Medical Book

Fri., Nov. 16, 2018

This conference brings together a range of perspectives on medical texts that emphasize their lives as books, bringing together the disciplines of the history of medicine and of book history. Speakers will explore a wide variety of medical genres in diverse chronological contexts, posing questions about change and continuity in the nature of the medical book.