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Highlights from the Fielding Collection of Early American Art: Collecting
Sun., Oct. 16, 2016Jonathan and Karin Fielding talk about what they collect and why and their interest in the pieces with respect to how they were made and how they were used. Their focus: American ingenuity manifested in American art made for utilitarian purposes by craftspeople in rural New England from the 18th through 19th centuries.
Early Modern Literary Geographies
Thu., Oct. 13, 2016 | Julie Sanders, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
Recent Lectures: Sept. 14–Oct. 5, 2016
Mon., Oct. 10, 2016 | Huntington Staff
Press Release - Border Grill’s Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken with Blue Window’s Kajsa Alger Partner with The Huntington to Create Dynamic New Dining Destination
Mon., Oct. 10, 2016
The United States from the Inside Out and Southside North
Fri., Oct. 7, 2016Steven Hahn, professor of history at New York University and the Rogers Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, considers what the history of the United States would look like, especially for the 19th century, if we travel east and west from the middle of the country and north from Mexico and the Caribbean.
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Chinese Woodblock Prints of the Late Ming and Qing Periods
Fri., Oct. 7, 2016June Li, curator emerita of the Chinese Garden at The Huntington, will look at some of the functions of printed images in China from the late 16th through the 19th centuries, using examples from the exhibition “Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints.”
Becoming Gay in the 1960s: Reading “A Single Man”
Fri., Oct. 7, 2016Novelist Edmund White (A Boy’s Own Story) discusses the lasting impression that Christopher Isherwood’s groundbreaking novel “A Single Man” had on him as a young author assembling his gay identity in the pre-Stonewall era.
The Huntington · Becoming Gay in the 1960s: Reading “A Single Man”