Chinese New Year Alert—The Dragon is Your Friend
Dragon years are considered energetic and promising, thus one could say with a fair amount of certainty that the year is likely to be one of great upheaval, monumental change, and a spike in China’s national birth rate! You can catch a glimpse of the mythical dragon in the exhibition “Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection,” currently on view in the Chandler Wing of The Huntington’s Scott Galleries.
Whistler’s Brother (In Law)
“Whistler, Haden, and the Gentle Art of Etching” is a new exhibition of 17 works primarily drawn from The Huntington’s collections that takes a focused look at the results of the fruitful relationship between James Abbott McNeill Whistler and a brother-in-law who happened to be an amateur printmaker.
On the Calculus of Hanging Ten
With the temperature in the 80s, you might be pondering whether to come to The Huntington this weekend or head straight to the beach instead. If you come to the Library’s West Hall, you’ll be able to catch the exhibition “Blue Sky Metropolis” before it closes on Jan. 9 while also seeing an honest-to-goodness surfboard on display.
How the West Won Me Over
Matthew Hersch, born in New York and educated in Boston and Philadelphia, came west last year to serve as a postdoctoral fellow for the Aerospace History Project and to co-curate the exhibition “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California.”
A Catalog to Covet Like an Ancient Chinese Mirror
A two-volume companion to the Huntington exhibition “Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection” is the result of a decade of scholarship by the top academics in the field. The author of volume 1, Suzanne E. Cahill, will speak here on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
When the L.A. County Fair Was Totally Mod
In the Fine Arts Building of the 1954 L.A. County Fair, Millard Sheets collaborated closely with the staff of “House Beautiful” magazine to produce an extraordinary installation of 22 architect-designed model rooms. In a lecture on Nov. 9, Jeremy Adamson will discuss the landmark exhibition.
Beyond the Numbers
In the Aerospace History Project, there is what you would expect to find in aerospace collections, such as blueprints and business correspondence documenting the daily work of engineers and scientists, but there are also unexpected items that subvert the stereotypical image.
Defying Gravity
Just four years after the Wright brothers’ famed first flight at Kitty Hawk, a man in the Sierra foothills of California built a contraption that resembled an airplane. His story inspired Ben Rich, the director of Lockheed’s Skunk Works in the 1970s and ’80s.
An Unlikely Pair
An imposing portrait by the Spanish artist Goya goes on display in the Huntington Art Gallery next to a painting by 20th-century abstract artist Robert Motherwell.
Musical Chair
“Sam Maloof’s friendships and relationships with artists were abiding relationships that had a significant influence on his own work,” explains curator Hal Nelson in his talk about the woodworker’s Double Music Stand and Musician’s Chair.
