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Detail view of an immersive art installation with a wooden canoe and various found objects.
Exhibition

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

Nov. 11, 2023–Nov. 30, 2027

Nov. 11, 2023–Nov. 30, 2027 | Renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”—commissioned by The Huntington—is a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds.

Beside the Edge of the World graphic treatment
Exhibition

Beside the Edge of the World

Nov. 9, 2019–Feb. 24, 2020

Nov. 9, 2019–Feb. 24, 2020 | Five artists create works based on The Huntington's collections investigating ideas of perfection using Thomas More's satirical work Utopia (1516).

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Abraham Lincoln
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Many Happy Returns

Feb. 16, 2011

Abraham Lincoln never set foot in California, but the Huntington Library has become one of the premier repositories of Lincolnian—manuscripts, books, letters, and ephemera by and about our 16th president. In 1914, Henry Huntington purchased the collection of William H. Lambert, a Philadelphia lawyer who was known as one of the "Big Five" collectors of Lincoln memorabilia.

Visitors looking at corpse flower
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A Stinky Family Tree

Aug. 22, 2014

The newest flowering of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum, or "Corpse Flower") at The Huntington has generated good questions about the origin of this plant at our institution. This wonder of the vegetable kingdom has now flowered for us five times

Rosten Woo inspecting archival materials
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Utopia is Nowhere

Sep. 10, 2019

Carribean Fragoza, a freelance journalist who writes about art in Southern California, Vanessa Wilkie, the William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval Manuscripts and British History at The Huntington, and artist, designer, writer, educator, and /five participant Rosten Woo sat down to discuss More's Utopia.

California juniper (Juniperus californica), Han-kengai  or semicascade style bonsai, estimated age of original plant material: 1,500–1,800 years old. Collected from JawboneCanyon, Mojave Desert and displayed in pot made by Sara Rayner. Collected, styled, and donated by Shig Miya. Photo by Andrew Mitchell. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Exploring The Huntington’s Collections Through Bonsai

Oct. 14, 2020

Visitors can discover an expansive new way to look at miniature trees in "Lifelines/Timelines: Exploring The Huntington's Collections Through Bonsai," on view Oct. 17, 2020 to Jan. 25, 2021.

Heather Hart

Heather Hart leads a team of five professionals and oversees the network of systems and systems architecture that underpin The Huntington's digital infrastructure.

Unusual orchid
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All in the Orchid Family

Oct. 9, 2015

What comes to mind when you think of the word "orchid"? Do you picture the wrist corsage that you wore to your high school prom? Are you seeing the potted blooms in the floral section of the grocery store?

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Pink orchid
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ORCHID COLLECTION | An Extraordinary Orchid Blooms at The Huntington

Jan. 17, 2013

In 2002, a roadside orchid stand in the Peruvian countryside was the opening scene of one of the most infamous chapters in the history of orchidology. An American orchid collector, Michael Kovach, brought back a slipper orchid he had purchased there.

Inside of Orbit Pavilion
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Hearing NASA’s Earth Science Satellites

Nov. 15, 2016

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.

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Women Making Art

Mar. 30, 2017

In 2016, The Huntington launched /five, a five-year contemporary arts initiative focused on creative collaboration. The plan? Each year, a different arts or cultural organization is selected to bring in artists to create works in response to The Huntington's library, art, and botanical collections in new and unforeseen ways.

henry moore
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Henry Moore on Paper

Jun. 13, 2018

Can a piece of sculpture and a print on paper have the same effect? The differences between them seem clear.

Wisdom Vase
News

News Release - Exhibition of New Work by Emerging Artists Responding to The Huntington's Collections to Open Nov. 18

Nov. 9, 2017

An exhibition opening next week at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will present a fresh, vibrant group of new works by seven artists responding to research they conducted in The Huntington's vast collections over the past year.

Librarians at work
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EXHIBITIONS | Lifting the Veil [video]

Apr. 28, 2014

When a visitor enters the refurbished Library Exhibition Hall, it may seem as if the rare artifacts in that hushed and glittering space appeared as if by magic. Yet the new permanent exhibition, "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times," is no conjurer's trick.

The exhibition “Beside the Edge of the World” features work by the following artists and writers (left to right): Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Robin Coste Lewis, Nina Katchadourian, Dana Johnson, and Rosten Woo. They stand before Doyle Lane’s Mutual Savings and Loan Mural, 1964, at The Huntington. Photo by Kate Lain. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Beside the Edge of the World

Jan. 15, 2020

The new visual and written works in "Beside the Edge of the World" guide us boldly beyond the limits of the world documented in archives

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Established in 1904, the Lily Ponds were the first garden built on Henry E. Huntington’s property.

Videos and Recorded Programs

Rituals of Labor and Engagement: Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr.

Nov. 7, 2018

L.A. artists Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr.

Art by Harmony Holiday
Videos and Recorded Programs

God’s Suicide by Harmony Holiday

Jun. 24, 2021

Join actor Larry Powell as he portrays writer and public intellectual James Baldwin in this production of "Made in L.A.

California juniper bonsai
News

News Release - Unique Bonsai Exhibition Opens March 14

Jan. 23, 2020

Visitors will discover an expansive new way to look at miniature trees in "Lifelines/Timelines: Exploring The Huntington's Collections Through Bonsai," on view March 14 through June 15 at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Two people sit in chairs on a stage in front of a large screen.
Videos and Recorded Programs

Highlights from Founders’ Day 2024: Foundations and Futures

Mar. 12, 2024

On Feb. 22, 2024, Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence sat down with Lori Bettison-Varga, president of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, for a conversation that looked back at The Huntington’s past five years under Lawrence’s leadership and forward at the institution’s strategic aspirations. 

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, "The Beautyful Ones" Series #8.
Videos and Recorded Programs

The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Apr. 18, 2023

Five works by Nigerian-born, Los Angeles–based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby are spotlighted in a series curated by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and New Yorker magazine critic Hilton Als, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and each artist.

Artwork by Mario Ybarra Jr. (left) and artwork by Carolina Caycedo (right)
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News Release - New Huntington-Inspired Works by Artists Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr. to go on View Nov. 10

Oct. 24, 2018

Two Los Angeles-based artists—Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr. —debut new work beginning Nov. 10 as part of an ongoing contemporary arts initiative at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Garden educators took part in a series of agroecology workshops in the Huntington Ranch Garden
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Thinking Outside the Bin

Apr. 22, 2014

Are visions of spring fertility dancing in your head but not in your garden? Could the magical process of composting bring new life to your soil and plants? Back in January and February I attended a professional development series at the Huntington Ranch and have been putting those lessons to good use.