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Solidarity with the Mount Wilson Observatory

Mon., Sept. 21, 2020 | Kevin Durkin
In 1904, more than a half-century before the creation of NASA, George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), a solar astronomer and astrophysicist, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory
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The Early Modern Global Caribbean: Virtual Conference

Fri., Sept. 18, 2020

The Caribbean played a central role in the global transformations that began in the fifteenth century. This conference explores the regional, Atlantic, and World approaches to the Caribbean, and what they each mean for thinking about the transformations within and beyond the Caribbean between ca. 1500 and 1800.

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Hear and Now

Wed., Sept. 16, 2020 | George Sanchez
Hear and Now is a new podcast that connects the incomparable library, art, and botanical collections at The Huntington with the wider world.
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News Release - "The Blue Boy” Is Reinstalled After Major Conservation Project

Thu., Sept. 10, 2020
While the Huntington Art Gallery has not yet reopened due to COVID-19, Gainsborough's famous masterpiece is back on the wall, luminous and awaiting visitors
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Introducing New Fellows in an Unprecedented Time

Thu., Sept. 10, 2020
In a normal year, nearly 2,000 scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine would be conducting academic research
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The Blue Boy Returns

Wed., Sept. 9, 2020

One of the most famous works at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, has been restored and reinstalled in the Thornton Portrait Gallery. This major conservation undertaking involved high-tech data gathering and analysis as well as more than 500 hours of expert conservation work to remove old overpaint and varnish, repair structural materials, and inpaint areas of loss.

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Hidden Within “The Three Witches”

Wed., Sept. 9, 2020 | Christina M. O’Connell
When The Huntington acquired Henry Fuseli's The Three Witches in 2014, I could immediately see clues that there was something to discover beneath its surface
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Big Creek and the Creek Fire

Tue., Sept. 8, 2020 | William Deverell
The catastrophic Creek Fire, burning out of control in the Sierra Nevada Mountains north of Fresno, is but one of hundreds of fires