When many parts of the country are blanketed by snow, the winter landscape at The Huntington is covered with camellias. The Camellia Collection includes nearly 80 different species
Filmmaker Johnny Coffeen explores the artist's process in this 8-minute film, scored by John Frame. It will be presented in the exhibition with Frame's own stop-motion animation film featuring his handmade characters.
In Chinese culture, the most important of all holidays is Chinese New Year. It begins on the first day of the first month according to the lunar calendar (Feb. 3 this year), and the festivities continue for several weeks thereafter.
When The Huntington launched the online version of the Early California Population Project (ECPP) in the summer of 2006, historian Steven Hackel said that the comprehensive database of the sacramental registers
If you haven't yet decided to attend David Blight's lecture tonight in Friends' Hall, you might listen to the podcast of the talk he gave at The Huntington a couple years ago. Blight is an engaging and eloquent speaker on all topics related to the Civil War.
Under a brilliant blue sky one recent morning, a group of volunteers donned their sun hats, pulled on sturdy gloves, and took up their secateurs to tackle one of the thorniest jobs at The Huntington: pruning more than 3,500 rose bushes.
The Huntington recently acquired six pages of diary entries recounting events leading up to, and immediately following, the Battle of Lexington Green. The manuscript was penned by the noted Boston preacher and patriot Samuel Cooper (1725–1783), a friend of Benjamin Franklin.
The pedestrian blue, red, and white of the Brillo boxes are shocking. They catch your eye before you even enter the gallery, signaling that something different is going on in that room—very unlike the soft, golden hues of the 19th- and early 20th-century galleries next door.
In 1438, renowned Italian painter Pisanello decided to adopt an art form that had been ignored since antiquity. He cast a portrait of John VIII Paleologus, emperor of Constantinople, in a bronze disk about four inches in diameter. The work was a commemorative medal honoring the dignitary's visit
On Tuesday, Sotheby's auctioned off a copy of John James Audubon's monumental Birds of America, breaking the record for the highest winning bid for a published book. Aside from the $10.2 million price tag, everything else about the book is big.