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TELEPHONE: 626-405-2100 WEBSITE: huntington.org Easter Brunch ADMISSION: Members: Free. Non-Members Literary Archive of Paul Theroux Acquired adult rates: Weekdays $23. Weekends $25. oin us for a very special (See website for dis counted senior, group, and New acquisitions also include a medieval manuscript, a collection children’s rates.) Admission is free to all holiday brunch on visitors on the first Thursday of each month Easter weekend, Satur - of 19th-century photographs, and other rare papers with advance tickets. Jday, March 26, or Sun - HOURS: Mon., Wed., Thurs., and Fri.: noon– day, March 27. Three he Huntington has acquired the papers of 4:30 p.m. Sat. and Sun.: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. seatings will be offered: renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Monday holidays: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and Theroux. The archive comprises notebooks, SUMMER HOURS: (June–August) 1:30 p.m. Families can Thandwritten drafts, and corrected typescripts 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. daily, excluding Tues - enjoy a deli cious meal for nearly all of Theroux’s 51 books, along with days. Closed Tuesdays and major holidays. under the dome of the Rose diaries, short stories, plays, lectures, and essays. It DINING: The Café serves light meals and Hills Founda tion Garden also includes extensive correspondence from the refreshments. Tea is served in the Rose Court, includ ing chef- Garden Tea Room. For tea reservations, Nobel Prize-winning novelist V.S. Naipaul and prepared omelets, carved call 626-683-8131. Enjoy Chinese cuisine in many other writers. The papers were among the meats, and a seafood the Garden of Flowing Fragrance and specialty purchases made in January during the annual station, plus mimosas for coffees and gelato in the Coffee Shop. Photo by Martha Benedict meeting of Library Collectors’ Council, a group of the grown-ups and sparkling HUNTINGTON STORE: Open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 39 families who help support acquisitions. juice for kids. The Easter Bunny will be on hand for photo ops Wednesday through Monday, the store carries The Theroux papers represent a substantial (don’t forget your camera!), and there will be goodie bags for young - a variety of books, prints, note cards, jewelry, addition to the Library’s already extensive research home decor, toys, and gift items related to The sters under 12. Tickets: $55 for adults/teens. $27.50 for children ages Hunt ington’s collec tions. Pur chases help 4–12. Free for children 3 and under. Advance reservations are required holdings in travel literature, notable for the papers finance the institu tion. Store information: and can be made by calling 626-405-2246. of such celebrated figures as the Victorian explorer 626-405-2142. Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence (better Lisa Blackburn, Editor/Photographer known as Lawrence of Arabia). Avelina E. Moeller, Designer Theroux has explored the far reaches of the Thea M. Page, Contributing writer globe in such classic travel accounts as The Great On the cover: The distinctive teal blue Puya alpestris in the Desert Gar - den is one of many colorful blooms to look for in the gardens in spring. Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, Senior Staff See additional seasonal highlights on page 12. Photo by Martha Benedict. Dark Star Safari, and The Happy Isles of Oceania. His most recent book, Deep South, recounts his Laura Skandera Trombley Back cover: Visitors young and old can immerse themselves in the world President of Shakespeare during a family event on April 16. See page 3 for details. wanderings closer to home. In 2015, Theroux was Photo by Lisa Blackburn. awarded the prestigious Royal Medal from the Margaret Irwin Royal Geographical Society, whose previous Chief of Staff Follow us! recipients include missionary explorer David Catherine Allgor Find links to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Livingston, Robert Falcon Scott of Antarctic fame, Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim Page of a notebook for The Great Railway YouTube, Instagram, Vimeo, and and British naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Director of Education the Verso blog at huntington.org. Bazaar, Paul Theroux Collection. Though best known for his travel accounts, James P. Folsom Inset: Paul Theroux. Photo by Steve McCurry/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Marge and Sherm Telleen / Marion and Theroux has also produced a large and distin - Earle Jorgensen Director of the Botanical guished body of fiction, including the novel APRIL • 2016 Gardens exhibitions Mosquito Coast, which was adapted as a film in | Steve Hindle 1986. Theroux’s novels Saint Jack, Dr. Slaughter Republican Party founder John Meredith Read W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research “The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism (released as Half Moon Street), and Kowloon Tong (1797–1874), a spectacular collection of 19th- and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920” Coreen A. Rodgers (released as Chinese Box) have also been made into century photographic portraits, a 15th-century Anne and Jim Rothenberg Vice President Through May 9 | Boone Gallery films. London Embassy, a volume of Theroux’s Latin manuscript about the Three Magi, and a for Financial Affairs short stories, was produced as a TV miniseries. volume of notes taken during the lectures of 19th- “Alex Israel at The Huntington” Once processed and cataloged—a task that century French mathematician Augustin-Louis Kevin Salatino Through July 11 | Huntington Art Gallery Hannah and Russel Kully Director could take several years—the Theroux papers will Cauchy. of the Art Collections “Y.C. Hong: Advocate for Chinese-American Inclusion” be available for scholarly research. There are no For details and photos of all these new CALENDAR • MARCH Randy Shulman Ends March 22 | Library, West Hall immediate plans for exhibition. acquisi tions, go to huntington.org, search word Vice President for Advancement “Friends and Family: British Artists Depict their Circle” Other items acquired by the Library Collec - “Theroux.” 1 Laurie Sowd Ends March 28 | Huntington Art Gallery, Works on Paper Room tors’ Council this year were the extensive papers of Vice President for Operations “A World of Strangers: Crowds in American Art” Susan Turner-Lowe Vice President for Communications Ends April 4 | Huntington Art Gallery, Second Floor David S. Zeidberg Avery Director of the Library Carnegie Observatories Lecture Series Join us for Shakespeare Day on April 16
his spring, the Carnegie Observatories returns to The Huntington for its popular astronomy lecture series, presenting the latest findings and his year marks the 400th anniversary of and the Music Center’s touring ensemble, Will & explora tions at one of the world’s foremost centers of astronomical William Shakespeare’s death; yet, even after Company, will present an adaptation of Romeo Tresearch. Since its founding in Pasadena in 1904, the Carnegie Observa - four centuries, the appeal of his work remains and Juliet geared to school-aged children. tories has led vir tually every major discovery about the origins, size, shape, Ttimeless. His plays and sonnets are redis - As a special highlight, theater students and structure of the universe. The observatories are part of the Carnegie covered, reinterpreted, and reinvigorated by each from the East Los Angeles Performing Arts Institution for Science in Washing ton, D.C., and operate large telescopes in new generation. Academy at Esteban E. Torres High School will Chile’s Atacama Desert. The Huntington marks this milestone offer excerpts from their recent Huntington- anniversary on Saturday, April 16, with a one-day staged production of Twelfth Night. Rounding SERIES DATES AND SPEAKERS: celebration featuring multiple takes on the Bard, out the fun, interactive workshops and craft April 4 — “Las Campanas Observatory: A Southern Window on the from the traditional to the contemporary, activities will allow children to explore Shake - Universe” by Mark Phillips, director of the Las Campanas Observatory. presented by professional performers as well as speare and his world. Visitors can also view The (Details on page 5.) students. Huntington’s rare “First Folio” edition of Shake - April 18 — “A Short History of Planet Formation” by Anat Shahar, Throughout the day, members of the speare’s collected plays and other related works in staff scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory. (Details on page 6.) Independent Shakespeare Co. and the Guild of St. the Library Exhibition Hall. May 2 — “Exoplanets” by Kevin Schlaufman, assistant professor of physics George will enact scenes from some of Shake - Activities are ongoing from 11 a.m. to and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. speare’s best-loved plays in locations throughout 3 p.m. and are included with general admission. May 16 — “The Secret Lives of Galaxies” by Katherine Alatalo, Hubble the grounds. Members of L.A. Opera will perform songs from operas based on Shake speare’s plays, Photo by Yuri Beletsky Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories. The lectures will be held in Rothenberg Hall. Doors open at 6:45p.m. Each For additional informa tion, program begins at 7 p.m. with a musical performance by students from the contact the Carnegie Observa - Colburn School, followed by the lecture at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, but tories at 626-304-0250 or advance reservations are required. Reserve online at huntington.org/calendar. obs.carnegiescience.edu.
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ince the 1960s, field trips to The Huntington have A donation in any amount can have a great been a memorable part of the school year for impact on the lives of students who otherwise Scountless children throughout Southern Califor - would never have a chance to experience the APRIL • 2016 APRIL • 2016 | | nia. For many youngsters, the free educational tours educational enrichment and inspiration that a have been their first exposure to an art museum, an school visit to The Huntington can provide. eye-opening introduction to botany, or the begin - Sponsor a field trip today by making a tax- ning of a lifelong passion for history. deductible gift to the Bus Fund. You’ll find details But did you know that 60 percent of the schools and links at huntington.org/education. that visit The Huntington each year couldn’t afford to do so without the Huntington Bus Fund? Donations to the Bus Fund go a long way. For CALENDAR • MARCH CALENDAR • MARCH just $250, schools within the San Gabriel Valley can pay for a bus to bring students to The Huntington. 2 And for $500, students from as far away as 3 Bakersfield, San Diego, and Santa Barbara Participating groups will include (clockwise can have bus transportation. from upper left): Guild of St. George, Independent Shakespeare Co., East Los Angeles Performing Arts Academy, and Will & Company. MARCH – APRIL 2016 EVENTS
For Our Members East Asian Garden Studies Lecture Series influential Chelsea Flower Show. He also Japanese Teahouse Tours producer Ken Kebow for a screening of Plants in the Everyday Life of Japan discusses the importance of the edible gar - March 14 & April 11 (Mondays) Kebow’s documentary Lincoln’s Greatest Speech, which features a powerful reading by March 1 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. den, integrating edible plants into an exist ing noon–4 p.m. actor Richard Dreyfuss and a fascinating ALL MEMBERS For more than a millennium, the people of landscape, and using succu lents and peren - Take a peek inside the Japanese Garden’s discovery about the speech by White. Follow- Members’ Plant Sale Japan have maintained an intense day-to- nials for stylish container gardening. A plant ceremonial teahouse and learn the traditions ing the 40-minute screening and a Q&A April 22–23 (Friday–Saturday) day engagement with plants for a variety of sale follows the talk. Free; no reserva tions behind its use. Informal tours are offered at session, White will sign copies of his book, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. practical, religious, and aesthetic purposes. required. Ahmanson Room, 20-minute intervals on the second Monday of A. Lincoln. Free; advance reservations are Members shop early for the best selection Georges Métailié, honorary director of Brody Botanical Center every month. General admission. required. Reservations: huntington.org/ during the popular Spring Plant Sale. research at the National Center for Scientific Francis Bacon Conference calendar. Rothenberg Hall r You’ll also receive an extra 10 percent Research in Paris, examines some of these General Relativity at One Hundred discount in the Huntington Store during engagements from both a historical and a March 10–12 (Thursday–Saturday) Talk and Book Signing the weekend of the sale. (See details on contemporary perspective in this illustrated 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. The Good Garden page 13.) lecture. Free; no reservations required. Downton Abbey Finale Event Caltech’s sixth bi-annual Francis Bacon April 3 (Sunday) 2:30 p.m. Rothenberg Hall March 6 (Sunday) 2:30 –6 p.m. Conference is co-hosted this year by The Landscape architect Edmund Hollander, CONTRIBUTOR LEVEL MEMBERS In association with PBS SoCal, The Hunting - Huntington. Friday’s programs and a related author of The Good Garden, discusses how ton will host a screening of the final episode lecture (see below) will be held at The Hunt- the design process for a residential landscape AND ABOVE of the award-winning Masterpiece series, ington; a Thursday afternoon lecture and is informed by the interaction of natural site Members’ Orientation Downton Abbey. Find out how the story ends Saturday’s sessions will take place at Caltech. ecology, architectural ecology, and human March 19 (Saturday) 9 a.m. for the aristocratic Grantham family and their All sessions are free and open to the public. ecology. A book signing follows the talk. East Asian Garden Studies Lecture Series General admission. Ahmanson Room, Brody Enjoy a Members-only docent tour and servants in the popular drama filmed at the Conference details: caltech.edu (search word Surprise, Intrigue, and Significance: “GR100”). Rothenberg Hall Botanical Center. learn how Henry and Arabella Huntington real-life English estate of Highclere Castle. The Chinese Influence on the This screening is paired with an introduction turned their San Marino ranch into a Francis Bacon Conference Lecture English Garden Carnegie Observatories Lecture Series to the Highclere collection at The Huntington renowned cultural center. 100 Years of Relativity: March 22 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. Las Campanas Observatory: by Catherine Hess, chief curator of European Reservations: 626-405-2124 or In the 18th century, English landscape design A Southern Window on the Universe art, and ends with an after-hours reception From the Big Bang to Black Holes [email protected]. moved from the regularity and discipline of April 4 (Monday) 7 p.m. in the Huntington Art Gallery. Mem- and Gravitational Waves classical European art to the irregularity and For 45 years, the Las Campanas Observatory bers: $25. Non-Members: $35. Tickets: March 11 (Friday) 7:30 p.m. freedom of nature. Could this change have in northern Chile has provided a superlative AFFILIATE LEVEL MEMBERS huntington.org/calendar. Rothenberg Hall One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein formulated his general relativity theory, been influenced by Chinese gardening ideas window in the Southern Hemisphere for AND ABOVE Music in the Chinese Garden Chamber Music Concert that were then being widely discussed? explor ing the wonders of our uni verse. Members’ Spring Quarterly Event Wednesdays, 1–3 p.m. Camerata Pacifica Historian Yu Liu of Niagara County Com- Observatory director Mark Phillips gives a Enjoy traditional Chinese music every “Past into Present: From Working March 8 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. munity College explores this possibility personal account of the spectacular growth of Wednesday afternoon in the Garden of Ranch to World-Class Destination” The award-winning Camerata Pacifica through the work of British statesman George astronomical research in this unique land of Flowing Fragrance. General admission. April 7 (Thursday) 6:30–9 p.m. ensemble performs works by Eugène Ysaÿe, Macartney, landscape architect William Kent, high mountains and dry deserts. The even - (Cancelled in the event of rain.) Trace more than a century of progress at Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ludwig van Beethoven, and artist/engraver Matteo Ripa. Free; no ing’s pro gram begins with a musical perfor - mance by students from the Colburn School, The Huntington in a presentation that Distinguished Fellow Lecture and Pablo de Sarasate. $56. Tickets and reservations required. Rothenberg Hall draws upon early archival photographs Oliver Cromwell’s Consolation program details: cameratapacifica.org or followed by the lecture. Free; advance Scholarly Forum reservations required. Reservations: and historic maps of the property. Senior 805-884-8410. Rothenberg Hall r Prize? The English Conquest What Good Is History? huntington.org/ calendar. staff members James Folsom, Randy of Jamaica Zamorano Lecture March 25 (Friday) 7:30 p.m. Rothenberg Hall r Shulman, and Laurie Sowd are the March 2 (Wednesday) 7:30 p.m. Preserving Endangered which describes space and time as warped Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Elizabeth by mass and energy. Kip Thorne, Feynman featured speakers. Invitation only. While Lord Protector of England, Oliver Manuscripts in the Fenn and Alan Taylor engage in a scholarly Distinguished Fellow Lecture Cromwell sent a massive expeditionary force Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, conversation on the contemporary relevance Being Elizabethan: For questions regarding your Middle East and Africa describes the ideas underlying general to conquer the Spanish West Indies. He got March 9 (Wednesday) 7:30 p.m. of historical writings on the American past. How Elizabethans Made Sense Member ship, please call 626-405-2124 only Jamaica, which was considered a relativity and the amazing discoveries about Why do we need historical perspective on our of Their World Benedictine monk Father Columba Stewart, warped spacetime that have been made in or visit huntington.org. disappointment. Carla Gardina Pestana, times? What do history, and the humanities April 6 (Wednesday) 7:30 p.m. executive director of the Hill Museum and the past 100 years. This public lecture is professor of history at UCLA and the Robert more generally, have to teach us about point Norman Jones, professor of history at Utah Manuscript Library, explains how a presented in conjunction with the Francis C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow, argues for Minnesota-based monastery has digitized of view, context, and the rights and wrongs of State University and the Fletcher Jones the importance of this effort and its outcome. Bacon Conference, co-hosted by Caltech our past and our present? These scholars and APRIL • 2016 50,000 manuscripts originating from Syria, Foundation Distinguished Fellow, talks about APRIL • 2016 | and The Huntington. Admission to the
Free; no reservations required. the audience will explore the answers to his decades-long effort to understand how | Iraq, Jerusalem, Ethiopia, Mali, and other lecture is free; no reservations required. Rothenberg Hall r these questions. This program, which helps Elizabethan English men and women places where traditional culture is threatened Rothenberg Hall r mark the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize, is perceived the structures, meanings, and Southern California Gardener Series by intolerance and modernization. The pro - co-sponsored by The Huntington, the purposes of life and how those perceptions Lessons from Arlington Garden ject includes both Christian and Islamic Clivia Show and Sale manuscripts, creating the world’s largest March 12–13 (Saturday–Sunday) Huntington–USC Institute on California and were linked to their choices and actions. Free; March 6 (Sunday) 2 p.m. the West, and California Humanities. Free. archive of vanishing literature. Free; no 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. no reservations required. Rothenberg Hall r Take a virtual tour of Arlington Garden in Reservations: huntington.org/calendar. reservations required. Rothenberg Hall r Dozens of outstanding plants compete for Pasadena, a three-acre public landscape that Haaga Hall r Molina Lecture in the History of Medicine is a model of sustainable urban watershed Second Thursday Garden Talk & Sale top honors at the 13th Annual Clivia Show Finding a Cure at the British Spa design. Mayita Dinos, the garden’s master The New American Garden and Sale, presented by the North American Lincoln’s Greatest Speech April 11 (Monday) 7:30 p.m. Clivia Society and Southern California Clivia CALENDAR • MARCH Save planner, discusses how this former weed lot March 10 (Thursday) 2:30 p.m. March 31 (Thursday) 7:30 p.m. Amanda E. Herbert, assistant professor of CALENDAR • MARCH on unique Club. The juried show also features plant was transformed using design elements that Join horti cultural trend-spotter Nicholas Forty-one days before his death, President history at Christopher Newport University and sales, an auction, informal talks, and a chance 4 spring gifts can be easily implemented on a smaller scale Staddon for an English man’s view of the new Abraham Lincoln delivered his second the Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine 5 for visitors to cast their vote for the “People’s at home. General admission; no reservations American gar den. Staddon highlights some inaugural address, a speech he considered his and Allied Sciences, describes 17th- and 18th- with your Choice” award. General admission. required. Ahmanson Room, of the fresh ideas that are shaping the home finest. Join Lincoln biographer Ronald C. century medical regimes, exploring why Brody Botanical Center. Members’ discount Brody Botanical Center land scape, both in the U.S. and abroad, White and Emmy Award-winning director/ Britons drank and swam in mineral waters in including recent highlights from London’s theHuntingtonStore.org r The Café will be open until 7:15 p.m. before the start of events showing this symbol. Program attendees can enjoy a select variety of dinner options, QUESTIONS? 626-405-2100 desserts, beer, and wine in the new dining venue overlooking the gardens, just steps away from Rothenberg Hall. MARCH – APRIL 2016 EVENTS (Continued)
order to heal themselves from disease or surrounding tea garden, followed by a space exploration and the reach of space Continuing Education Taste of Art: Children and Families injury. Free; no reservations required. participatory tea ceremony in the Ikebana activities at the height of the Cold War. The Contemporary California Rothenberg Hall r House. Choice of four times. Tickets: $15. (For talk will focus in particular on a remote Taste of Art: The Artist’s Garden April 2 (Saturday) 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. non-Members, Huntington admission is an fishing village in south India where American Chamber Music Concert March 5 (Saturday) 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Explore the unexpected juxtapositions of additional required cost.) Registration: and Soviet scientists came together to launch Camerata Pacifica Explore the connections between horti - contemporary art and old masters in the huntington.org/calendar. rockets into space. Free; no reservations culture and Impressionist art in the exhibition exhibition “Alex Israel at The Huntington,” April 12 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. required. Rothenberg Hall The ensemble performs works by Nigel Southern California Gardener Series “The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism then prepare a meal inspired by the gallery Osborne, David Bruce, Christopher Deane, Wildcrafted Cuisine: Talk and Book Signing and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920,” conversation in this workshop with Maite Toru Takemitsu, and Claude Debussy. $56. Flavors of the Local Landscape Ruth Shellhorn: Mid-Century then head to the kitchen to prepare a Gomez-Rejón of ArtBites. Members: $85. Non-Members: $100. Registration: Tickets and program details: 805-884-8410 or April 17 Landscape Architecture and delicious garden-fresh meal. huntington.org/calendar. cameratapacifica.org. Rothenberg Hall r (Sunday) 2 p.m. the Southern California Look Members: $85. Non-Members: $100. Registration: huntington.org/calendar. Second Thursday Garden Talk Professional April 20 (Wednesday) 7:30 p.m. Flower Arranging: Exploring the Beauty of forager Pascal Design pioneer Ruth Shellhorn helped define Wines of Burgundy Woodlands Design Baudar sees the midcentury landscape in Southern California's Native Flora March 9 (Wednesday) 5–7:30 p.m. April 2 (Saturday) 10 a.m.–noon Southern Califor - California with Join chef and sommelier Brad Owen for an in- Create a woodlands-themed floral design that Children’s Workshop April 14 (Thursday) 2:30 p.m. nia as a culinary such visionary depth discussion of the different elements that brims with the promise of spring, using lichen- Discovering the Desert Garden Wildflowers once blanketed California’s play ground, full projects as Disney - make Burgundy one of the most complex and covered branches and moss, seedpods, March 12 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–noon mountains, deserts, and valleys; today, only of wild plants land and the compelling wine regions in the world. The berries, lush Explore The Huntington’s most wonder- small pockets remain. Award-winning photo - and other University of program includes a lecture and wine tasting. ferns, fresh filled landscape with instructor Laura grapher David Leaser brings renewed atten - edibles that are California at Members: $90. Non-Members: $105. Registra - herbs, and Moede. Learn about the unusual plants that tion to these vanishing botanical treasures ripe to be redis - Riverside. Land - tion: huntington.org/calendar. seasonal grow in the Desert Garden, look for animal with his fine art photo graphs. In this covered and appreciated. He discusses a scape architect flowers. Casey life among the cacti, and create art inspired illustrated talk, Leaser contemporary culinary approach to these truly Kelly Comras, Huntington U Spring Seminars Schwartz and by the landscape. Ages 5–12. Fee includes takes viewers behind the local ingre dients in a talk drawn from his book author of the March 9–April 14 Kit Wertz of one accompanying adult. Members: $25. scenes for a close-up look The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the biography Ruth Join us for our popular Flower Duet Non-Members: $35. Registration: at the innovative Exotic Gas trono my of Local Terroir. A book Shellhorn, exam - Huntington U seminar series, lead the huntington.org/calendar. techniques he uses to signing follows the talk. General admission; ines Shellhorn’s offering three college-level workshop. capture Califor nia’s most Children’s Workshop no reservations required. Ahmanson Room, legacy in a lecture and short film screen ing. A spring courses taught by Members: $85. Non-Members: $100. breathtaking native Brody Botanical Center book signing follows the pro gram. Free; no distinguished scholars. See Registration: huntington.org/calendar. Under the Pepper Tree flowers. Free; no reserva - reservations required. Rothenberg Hall r page 10 for class descriptions and March 26 (Saturday) tions required. Carnegie Observatories Lecture Series registration details. Botanical Drawing 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Ahmanson Room, A Short History of Planet Formation Annual Spring Plant Sale April 9–10 (Saturday–Sunday) Did you know that pepper is both a spice Brody Botanical Center April 18 (Monday) 7 p.m. Members: April 22–23 Book Discussion 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. and a fruit? Join instructor Punam Bhakta in Conference Four very different terrestrial planets inhabit Public Sale: April 24 The Autobiography of Learn techniques for accurately drawing the the garden (and in the kitchen) to trace the The Fabricated American Desert: our inner solar system: Earth, Mars, Mercury, See details on page 13. Mark Twain, Volume 1 parts of a plant, from stems and leaves to origins of pepper, learn about its history, March 30 (Wednesday) 10 a.m.–noon Modern and Anti-Modern and Venus. Join Anat Shahar, staff scientist in flowers and fruit, in this class taught by and explore its uses in food traditions the geophysical laboratory at the Carnegie East Asian Garden Studies Lecture Series Join a lively discussion of volume one of The botanical illustrator Lisa Pompelli. around the world. Ages 7–12. Members: April 15–16 (Friday–Saturday) Institution for Science, for an exploration of A Commoner Garden in Edo Japan: Autobiography of Mark Twain, the author’s Instruction will include foreshortening, tonal $25. Non-Members: $35. Fee includes one 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. these planets and a discussion of what labo- The Mukojima Hyakkaen uncensored account of his life and times. contrast, measuring, and perspective. The accompanying adult. Registration: The southwestern desert has long stood for ratory experiments can reveal about the April 26 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. Book group facilitator Judith Palarz leads the class is suitable for all skill levels. Members: huntington.org/calendar. American individualism, modernist and anti- Unlike the many gardens created by feudal conversation. The paperback Reader’s Edition $175. Non-Members: $195. Registration: modernist sentiments, and social and lords in Edo (present-day Tokyo), the of Vol. 1 is available in the Huntington Store. huntington.org/calendar. Children’s Flower Arranging political experiments. As such it has attracted Mukojima Hyakkaen was founded by a Mem bers: $25. Non-Members: $35. Registra - Woodland Terrariums artistic and architectural movements that wealthy merchant. Peter Flueckiger, pro - tion: huntington.org/calendar Bargain Wines from April 2 (Saturday) 1–2:30 p.m. give form to these ideas. This conference fessor of Japanese literature at Pomona Around the World Inspired by the flora in the gardens at The brings together scholars from diverse disci- College, discusses how this garden served as Painting with Nan Rae April 13 (Wednesday) 5–7:30 p.m. Huntington, children will create their own plines to explore the relationship between a center of literati culture in 19th-century March 16 & April 20 (Wednesdays) Great wines don’t have to be expensive. Join miniature worlds by filling small terrariums
desert extremes and the built environment. Japan. Free; no reservations required. 11 a.m.–3 p.m sommelier Brad Owen for an evening of with flowers, moss, and herbs in this hands- APRIL • 2016 |
APRIL • 2016 $25. Registration: 626-405-3432 or Artist Nan Rae continues her popular water - | Rothenberg Hall lecture and comparative tastings exploring on workshop led by the Flower Duet team. [email protected]. conditions that formed them. The evening’s color classes inspired by the art of Chinese some of the well-known and emerging wine Ages 7–12. Fee includes one accompanying Distinguished Fellow Lecture Rothenberg Hall program begins with a musical performance brush painting. Each session: $50. Registra - regions of the world that are producing adult. Members: $25. Non-Members: $35. The Creative Life in tion: 818-842-6489. Shakespeare Day by students from the Colburn School, followed quality wines at affordable prices. Members: Registration: huntington.org/calendar. 19th-Century America $90. Non-Members: $105. Registration: April 16 (Saturday) 11 a.m.–3 p.m. by the lecture. Free; advance reservations Avid Gardener Series April 27 (Wednesday) 7:30 p.m. huntington.org/calendar. Children’s Workshop Celebrate four centuries of Shakespeare required. Reservations: huntington.org/ Responsible Water Usage Alice Fahs, professor of history at the Univer - All About Avocados during a family event featuring traditional calendar. Rothenberg Hall r sity of California, Irvine, and the Rogers for Edible Landscapes Tai Chi Series April 30 (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and contemporary interpretations of the Dibner Lecture Distinguished Fellow, discusses what we can April 2, 9 & 16 (Saturdays) 9 a.m.–noon April 30–June 11 (Saturdays) Learn all about California's official state fruit timeless works of the Bard. (See details on A Different Space: Learn creative ways to grow a delicious, 8:45–10:15 a.m. and mix up some tasty recipes in this hands- learn from the attempts by prominent 19th- CALENDAR • MARCH
CALENDAR • MARCH page 3.) Rothenberg Hall NASA in the Postcolonial World century American writers such as Henry drought-conscious garden in this hands-on Experience tai chi in the tranquil setting of on workshop with chef Ernest Miller. Kids Teahouse Tour & Tea Experience April 19 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry series led by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen of the gardens in this seven-part series led by will make guacamole using local ingredients Root Simple. Sessions will take place in The instructor Kathy Chyan, suitable for 7 6 April 17 (Sunday) noon, 1, 2 & 3 p.m. Asif Siddiqi, professor of history at Fordham James to form communities that would and an amazing avocado ice cream. Ages 7– Huntington’s Ranch Garden and will address beginning and intermediate students. Explore the traditions of the Japanese tea University and the Searle Visiting Professor in nurture and sustain their art. Free; no 12. Fee includes one accompanying adult. drip irrigation, graywater systems, plant Members: $150. Non-Members: $175. ceremony in a 90-minute program that the History of Science at Caltech and The reservations required. Rothenberg Hall r Members: $35. Non-Members: $45. Registra - selection, mulch and soil health, and more. Registration: huntington.org/calendar. includes a tour of The Huntington’s Huntington, discusses a lost “global” history of tion: huntington.org/calendar. Members: $100. Non-Members: $115. ceremonial teahouse, Seifu-an, and its Registration: huntington.org/calendar. r The Café will be open until 7:15 p.m. before the start of events showing this symbol. Program attendees can enjoy a select variety of dinner options, desserts, beer, and wine in the new dining venue overlooking the gardens, just steps away from Rothenberg Hall. QUESTIONS? 626-405-2100 President’s Message New Fellowship Honors Curator Alan Jutzi
lan Jutzi, The Huntington’s Avery Chief Cultivating the Future Curator of Rare Books, retired in January after 45 years of dedicated service. Jutzi’s Awarm geniality to researchers at all levels— and from all walks of life—is one of his abiding Photo by Meeno institutional legacies. He helped legions of world- class scholars who came to The Huntington during hile folks back east shovel their way through They are particularly keen to identify the types of his decades-long tenure. And he did the same for the winter—my son among them, braving things that scholars would find interesting and many others: the graduate student just starting out, the elements at Union College in frosty useful: a rare collection of photographs, papers the city planner in search of historical context, the WSchenectady, N.Y.—we are well into spring that offer a window into an author’s writing regional preservationist trying to save a threatened here in San Marino. At the President’s House, that process, documents that give the backstory to a build ing, the undergraduate doing her first major means planting a vegetable garden and looking particular political narrative. Collecting is about research paper, and the passionate seeker of infor - forward to cooking with a little home-grown fare. making choices, and here at The Huntington, it’s a mation who just happened to be the world’s And that’s only fitting, given that this property was careful, painstaking process. leading expert on a given subject. once a lively, working ranch. Mr. Huntington grew I think about this especially now in the wake In recognition of Jutzi’s long career at The a rich variety of agricultural crops, among them of an important development within the Library. Huntington and his unselfish service to the intel - citrus, avocados, peaches, apricots, walnuts, and Longtime and legendary curator Alan Jutzi retired lectual needs of people regardless of academic persimmons. Today, we’re putting in a condensed from The Huntington following 45 remarkable pedigree, his friends and colleagues have version of that: potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, years here. Alan, as Library Director David established the Alan Jutzi Fellowship for Non- lettuce, squash, plus some herbs and a little catnip Zeidberg says, may have done more to shape the Traditional Scholars. The Alan Jutzi Fellowship The vitality of the Huntington is directly for the many felines in our household. collections in his tenure than anyone in the Library will provide at least two months of residential proportional to the vitality of its staff, the collec - The year in gardening got off to a very since Mr. Huntington amassed his great array of funding annually to someone who is not an tions they acquire, and the researchers that they productive start: early in January, I found myself books and manuscripts in the run-up to the academic and who has demonstrated, by competi - serve. The Alan Jutzi Fellowship, like the curator working, literally hand in glove, “dead heading” in founding of the institution. tive application and through appropriate selection for whom it is named, will continue to push The the Rose Garden. Our renowned Tom Carruth, the Our curators may be the most unsung of criteria, that research at The Huntington is critical Huntington into new arenas, new themes, and E. L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose heroes; it is they, working behind the scenes, who to his or her project. new associations of insight and curiosity. Collections, each year leads his volunteers on a help shape a collection, which then becomes the This fellowship, while the first of its kind, is To make a contribution to either the Alan mission to cut back more than 3,000 roses—but in narrative that explains to the world what The not unique in honoring a respected Huntington Jutzi or the Mary Robertson Fellowship Fund, a very specific, artful way. It’s much more challeng - Hunt ington is—what we have, what we do with it, curator. In 2014, the Mary Robertson Fellowship send a check payable to the Huntington Library, ing than I would have ever imagined! Without that why anyone should care. Our particular story—our in Tudor Studies was established to mark the c/o the Advancement Division, 1151 Oxford careful personal touch, we wouldn’t have the many stories—emerge from things collected: the retire ment of that distinguished curator of British Road, San Marino, CA 91108. Please specify to amazing display that we do come April and May. orchids and roses, the camellias and aloes, our Civil historical manuscripts. To date, the Robertson which fund the gift should be applied. Dona tions Fellowship has funded two scholars of 16th- can also be made online at huntington.org/giving.
The work involves paying close attention and War materials, the post-war art. Our curators are APRIL • 2016 APRIL • 2016 • APRIL | | making some very precise choices that will shape shaping the future here. Come see! century England, with a third on the way this calendar year. future growth. That’s becoming a metaphor for Laura Skandera Trombley, president how we cultivate the entirety of the collections. In January, we announced that our Library Collectors’ Council had purchased a range of exciting material, including the papers of the Subscribe to Great Storytelling celebrated travel writer Paul Theroux and an here are fascinating stories to tell about the collections at The Hunt -
astonishing 15th-century manuscript about the CALENDAR • MARCH CALENDAR • MARCH MARCH • CALENDAR ington. Don’t miss a single one. Subscribe to Verso, The Hunting - Three Magi. Our curators are constantly working Tton’s blog, and receive compelling content delivered right to your 8 to grow our collections in the most meaningful inbox every week. Pictured: a 15th-century Book of Hours from a story 9 ways for scholarship, responding to research trends. about symbolism in medieval lists. The piece was written by Martha Rust, who is conducting research in the Library as a National Endow - ment for the Humanities fellow. You can read the archived story at huntingtonblogs.org. Be sure to click “Subscribe” while you’re there. Spring Seminars Celebrating Octavia Butler
untington U is back with an all-new series of Life and Thought in the Young he Los Angeles arts organization Clockshop has “I have the kind of imagination that hears. spring seminars, geared to adults who love to American Republic launched a yearlong program known as Radio I think of it as radio imagination.” Hlearn. Three college-level courses taught by March 10–April 14 (Thursdays) 1–3 p.m. Imagination, presenting a series of events Octavia E. Butler distinguished scholars offer rigorous lectures and Instructor: Daniel Walker Howe Tcelebrating the life and work of award-winning lively discus sions in fields related to the Library’s Professor of history emeritus, UCLA author Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006). The Hunt - holdings. Students will delve deeply into each topic Life and thought in the United ing ton is pleased to be among the participating during the six-week classes, but there are no papers States during the generation partners. to write and no final exams. between 1815 and 1848 will be Butler was the first Black woman to achieve All sessions will be held in The Huntington’s Mun - explored through the writings of international prominence as a writer of science fic - ger Research Center. Members: $220/seminar. Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry David tion, producing such acclaimed novels as Kindred, Non-Members: $250/seminar. Registration: Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln, Parable of the Sower, and the trilogy Lilith’s Brood, 626-405-2128. and through a reading of Howe’s among others. She was also the genre’s first and only own Pulitzer Prize-winning book, writer to earn a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. COURSE OFFERINGS FOR SPRING 2016: What God Hath Wrought. The Pasadena native be queathed her papers to The Architecture as Fine Art: Greene & Greene Reading Thomas Paine’s Common Sense Huntington, where they have quickly become one of and the American Arts and Crafts Movement the most actively used archives in the Library. March 9–April 13 (Wednesdays) 9:30–11:30 a.m. March 14 (Monday) and March 23–April 20 (Wednesdays) 1–3 p.m. The Radio Imagination project centers on a Photo by Patti Perret, 1984 Instructor: Edward R. Bosley series of artist and writer commissions to create new new works of poetry and creative nonfiction on Director of the Gamble House Instructor: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Assistant professor of history, USC works based on the Butler archive. New work will Saturday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Clockshop. Explore the rich Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common premiere alongside performances, film screenings, For details and additional event listings, visit legacy of Pasadena Sense (1776) played a central role in and literary events held at various venues through - the Clock shop website at clockshop.org/ architects Charles and bringing about America’s declara - out the year. project/radio-imagination/#events. Henry Greene in a tion of independence. What were its Upcoming events this spring include a mod - Read more about the Octavia Butler course that examines origins, and what gave it its wide erated panel discussion on “Octavia E. Butler’s Los archive at The Huntington on the Verso blog at historical con text, reach and impact? The class will Angeles” on Thursday, March 10, at 7:15 p.m. at huntingtonblogs.org/2016/01/celebrating- specific design charac - read Common Sense along with a the Los Angeles Public Library, and a reading of octavia-butler. ter istics, and the post - selection of important antecedent war reevaluation of their work that fol lowed texts and contemporary reactions. decades of neglect. Seminar-style discussions will build on assigned readings. Greene & Greene photos courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library Publication News wo new books published by the Hunt ington Library Press present the histories of major APRIL • 2016
Huntington Explorers APRIL • 2016 | Tcultural institutions: the Los Angeles County | Registration begins April 12 for the Huntington Museum of Art and the Music Center of Los Explorers summer program, which returns Angeles County. Both have recently marked their July 11–29 with three weeks of fun and discovery 50th anniversaries, and both books reflect the for children ages 5–12. Sign up for one week, two weeks, or all three weeks. growth not only of these institutions but also of Los Angeles during half a century. Suzanne Mark your calendars with these important dates: Muchnic, the author of LACMA So Far: Portrait of a March 31: Class descriptions and registra tion Museum in the Making, was the longtime arts writer
CALENDAR • MARCH details will be available online at huntington.org for the Los Angeles Times. Margaret Leslie Davis, the CALENDAR • MARCH (search words “Explorers 2016”). author of The Music Center of Los Angeles County: 10 April 12: Registration begins online at Five Decades of Music, Theater, and Dance, is a noted 11 huntington.org. (Only online reservations can biographer of leading figures in Southern California. be accepted; sorry, no walk-in, mail, or phone Both books are available in the Huntington registration.) Store and online at thehuntingtonstore.org. In Bloom 42nd Annual Spring Plant Sale Members’ sale: Friday, April 22, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. pring is almost here, and there’s no Saturday, April 23, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. better place to enjoy its remarkable Sdiversity than in the Botanical Gar - Public sale: Sunday, April 24, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. dens. In March, the wisteria comes into flower in the Japanese Garden— or serious plant enthusiasts and weekend gardeners alike, The Huntington’s Special Discount one of the most picturesque displays of Annual Plant Sale has been a popular “rite of spring” for more than four for Members in the the year—and vivid clusters of clivia decades. Known for its wide selection of new, unusual, and hard-to-find Huntington Store appear in the Jungle Garden. April’s Fplants, the sale has helped shape tastes and respond to horticultural trends abundance in the Desert Garden that have redefined the Southern California landscape. This year’s event will be Stop by the Huntington Store includes neon-hued puyas and daz - open to Members only on Friday and Saturday, April 22–23, and to the public during the Plant Sale and enjoy zling cactus flowers. Look for peonies on Sunday, April 24. an additional 10 percent off in the Chinese Garden and golden Interest in water-wise plants continues to be high, so the sale will feature your regular Members’ discount California poppies in the entry com - many drought-resistant plants from the Southwest and other Mediter ranean on any store purchases. It’s the perfect opportunity to stock up plex’s Califor nia Garden. And more climates. The selection includes flowering favorites such as Tecoma, Grevillea, on garden books and gift items. than 1,200 varieties of roses will burst Leucadendron, Cassia, Penstemon, Eremophila, Hesperaloe, and Salvia, Look for the discount coupon in into bloom in the Rose Garden in late among others, plus a variety of attractive grasses and sedges. For the edible your Members’ Plant Sale April and early May. garden, there will be a wide assortment of vegetable seedlings, herbs, blue - berries, fruiting trees, and other small fruit-bearing plants. There will also be invitation. This offer is valid unusual cacti and succulents, vintage roses custom propagated from The Hunt - only April 22–25 and is not transferable. (Sorry, the Pictured (clockwise from top ington’s own rose collections, tropical plants, trees, vines, ground covers, and discount cannot be applied to left): Echinopsis ‘Apricot Glow’, much more. Puya chilensis, California Knowledgeable Huntington staff and volunteers will be on hand to plant purchases.) poppies, and wisteria. answer questions and offer advice about plant selection, care, and cultivation. The sale will be held in the Botanical Center nursery area. (For non- Not a Member yet? Members, garden admission is required for Sunday’s public sale.) For conve - New Members may join nient shopping, bring a wagon or cart to carry your purchases. at the sale entrance.
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