Ten Bamboo Studio Manual
Walk through a printed garden.
Niagara Hat
How do our cultural values affect the way we view and create art?
Tiffany Glass
Tiffany’s Glassworks: Light, Color, Change, and Innovation
Hilary Mantel, whose literary archive is held at The Huntington, is one of the most critically acclaimed authors working today.
Art and Nature
Experience nature through a creative lens by exploring plants, paintings, books, glassworks, and more. Use artistic principles to analyze the natural world, and explore artworks inspired by nature.
Lotus
Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at lotuses and explore how different artists have been inspired by lotuses.
Lily
Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at lilies and explore how different artists have been inspired by lilies.
Fern
Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at ferns, and explore how different artists have been inspired by ferns.
Olga Tsapina, curator of American historical manuscripts at The Huntington, discusses the importance of a little-known photograph from renowned Civil War photographer Mathew Brady's studio that reveals the forgotten pallbearers of Abraham Lincoln, now on display in the exhibition “What Now, Part 2.”
This symposium interrogates the issues raised by contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley's new painting Portrait of a Young Gentleman, which responds to Thomas Gainsborough's grand manner masterpiece The Blue Boy. Between these two paintings, separated by 250 years, lies a colonial history that has managed representation across a field of visuality, nominating certain figures for human status and others for something less or more. What does it take, in a Euro-American art tradition, to look like a person? And what might come after coloniality in art?