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Is identity mutable? Can you alter who you are? Whether or not real transformation is achievable, it is possible to change how others view you. A new exhibition in the Huntington Art Gallery examines an age-old tool used in the effort to influence perception: facial hair. "A History of Whiskers: Facial Hair and Identity in European and American Art, 1750–1920" includes prints, drawings, and photographs

Data, made up of units so uniform as to be, almost by necessity, boring, unite to form collectives of information in a data-driven world that is recognized now as exciting, sexy, and consummately modern. And not for the first time, we must add.

As visual strategists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Dan Goods and David Delgado use art and design to explain science. Their newest project is the Orbit Pavilion sound experience, which recently opened at The Huntington. The large silver structure sits on the Celebration Lawn by the terrace of the 1919 café.

The Longo Collection traces seismic shifts in obstetrics and gynecology over six centuriesThe images are haunting glimpses into the most primal and private of human moments—the experience of birth

For Ernest Marquez, a lifelong obsession ends up documenting the evolution of L.A.Even as a novice collector, Ernest Marquez found that he had a discerning eye for early images of Southern California

The Huntington's rare cookbooks reveal changes in American cooking that eventually sparked a food movementWe hear the word “artisanal” all the time—attached to cheese, chocolate, coffee, even fast-food chain sandwiches—but what does it really mean?

A needlework treasure from the collection of Jonathan and Karin FieldingThe colorfully embroidered samplers produced in early America by girls between the ages of eight and 18 were typically the result of a creative partnership