Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington. “Surface” is a short silent piece about fish, reflection, and not knowing which way is up. It’s a dip through … Continue reading
Category Archives: Video
VIDEO | The Poetry of Photography
Heavy boxes of glass. A portable darkroom. Noxious chemicals. A cumbersome camera. Field photography during the U.S. Civil War was an arduous process far removed from the relatively effortless digital image-snapping of today’s pocket-sized cameras and phones. And it was the strange beauty of this process—so labor intensive, so unfamiliar … Continue reading
ORCHID COLLECTION | Gotta See ’Em Catasetum
It’s a bird…. It’s a plane…. It’s orchid pollen? Pollen has been flying at the information desk in The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science this past month! Lucky visitors who were in the Conservatory at the right place and at the right time were able to witness the … Continue reading
VIDEO | Voices on the Civil War
The Huntington is abuzz with the Civil War this fall. Manuscript exhibition “A Just Cause: Voices of the American Civil War,” curated by Olga Tsapina, opened just a few weeks ago in the West Hall of the Library and gives its visitors an opportunity to try to make sense of … Continue reading
VIDERE | Lumen
Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington. Lumen is Latin for light, and is also a unit of how much light is generated by a source, … Continue reading
VIDERE | A Study in Simulacra
Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington. A simulacrum can be defined as an image, a likeness, a representation of some person or thing. “A Study … Continue reading
EXHIBITIONS | Oh, Railroad Bill
One hundred fifty years ago today, Abraham Lincoln signed into law the act that set in motion the development of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States. “Visions of Empire: The Quest for a Railroad Across America, 1840–1880,” The Huntington’s current major exhibition curated by Peter J. Blodgett, The … Continue reading
From Gainsborough to Rauschenberg
When one thinks of The Huntington’s art collections, the works that often come to mind first are Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, Lawrence’s Pinkie, and the other Grand Manner portraits. And such was probably the case for major postwar American artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose Global Loft (Spread) from 1979 will begin gracing … Continue reading
VIDERE | Calendula Collection
Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington. “Calendula Collection” is a survey of the colors and shapes that were in bloom in the April/May 2012 calendula … Continue reading
Presenting The Huntington In Motion
We are excited to launch In Motion, The Huntington’s new video project. It even has its own Vimeo presence and YouTube channel. In Motion will feature a variety of video series that will bring new light to the unique physical spaces, collections, and processes that constitute The Huntington. Our first … Continue reading