It's midmorning at The Huntington, and the kitchen of the Rose Garden Tea Room is abuzz with activity.
What's a schrank and why do we have one? Elee Wood, Fielding Curator/Educator of Early American Art explains.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has named Beijing-born visual artist Tang Qingnian 唐慶年as the Cheng Family Foundation Artist-in-Residence for 2019.
Join authors Bryan Mealer and Joshua Wheeler in a discussion about hardscrabble times, places, and people in Texas and New Mexico.
Acclaimed historian Louis Warren, professor of U.S. Western History at the University of California, Davis, explores how Californians remade American ideas of property and power between 1848 and the present in this Avery Lecture.
Ask any bonsai aficionado to name the most famous bonsai in North America, and the answer will almost certainly be "Goshin."
In 1941, the Limited Editions Book Club approached Edward Weston to collaborate on a deluxe edition of Walt Whitman's poetry collection, "Leaves of Grass." Weston accepted the assignment and set out on a cross-country trip that yielded a group of images that mark the culmination of an extraordinarily creative period in his career.
The Los Angeles Service Academy provides an intensive introduction to the infrastructure and institutions of greater Los Angeles for high school juniors. The Huntington documented LASA's investigation of the Los Angeles River and the Port of Los Angeles.
Part of the exhibition "Tiffany Favrile Glass: Masterworks from the Collection of Stanley and Dolores Sirott, this Tiffany Aquamarine vase, inspired by a trip to Bermuda, features an underwater scene encased in green-tinted glass. Only three known examples survive, placing it among the rarest Tiffany vases in the world.
The exhibition "Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories" examines the life and work of celebrated author Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), the first science fiction writer to receive a prestigious MacArthur "genius" award and the first African American woman to win widespread recognition writing in that genre.