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Illustration of birds in a tree.
Event

Second Sundays: The Birds and the Trees

Sun., April 14, 2024

Explore the curiosities behind the birds and the trees in The Huntington’s collections through art-making and talks with experts at this free event for visitors of all ages.

Video still depicting dancers on the staircase in the Huntington Art Gallery, from Apariciones/Apparitions
Exhibition

Apariciones/Apparitions

Aug. 17, 2019–Feb. 17, 2020

Aug. 17, 2019–Feb. 17, 2020 | Apariciones /Apparitions is a video by acclaimed Los Angeles artist Carolina Caycedo that reconceptualizes iconic Huntington spaces through Afro-Latinx and indigenous spiritual practices.

Exhibition

Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories

April 8, 2017–Aug. 7, 2017

A new exhibition opening this spring 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. Butler's literary archive resides at The Huntington.

Billboard and market installation
News

News Release - "Made in L.A. 2020: a version" Off-site Projects by Larry Johnson and Kahlil Joseph Accessible Now

Oct. 22, 2020

While the Hammer Museum and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens await state and county public health approvals to safely reopen their galleries for Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Angelenos can get a preview of the biennial

Left to right: Alex Israel, Self Portrait (Dodgers), 2014‒2015, acrylic and bondo on fiberglass, 96 × 84 × 4 in. Collection of the artist. Photo: Joshua White; Grand hallway of the Huntington Art Gallery. Photo: Tim Street-Porter.
News

Press Release - Contemporary Art by Alex Israel to Be Installed in Historic Huntington Art Gallery, in Site-Specific Intervention

Nov. 5, 2015

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it will stage an intervention in its historic Huntington Art Gallery of works by Alex Israel, one of the most recognizable emerging artists on the contemporary art stage.

Octavia Butler
News

Press Release - Exhibition on Octavia E. Butler to Explore Life and Work of Celebrated Science Fiction Author

Feb. 17, 2017

A new exhibition opening this spring at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 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

Amorphophallus titanum, or Titan Arum
Verso

Titanic Mysteries

Jul. 5, 2022

In the botanical world, the Amorphophallus titanum, or Titan Arum, has been an A-list celebrity. The Huntington first acquired one in March 1999, and five months later, the Scott Gallery Loggia was the site of the first recorded flowering of Titan Arum in California.

Picture of a flying machine, powered by geese, in Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone, 1657, one of the books read by the lunatic Doctor Baliardo in Aphra Behn’s play The Emperor of the Moon, 1687. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Verso

“This reading of Books is a pernicious thing”

Apr. 13, 2021

In 1984, The Huntington organized and hosted the first of a series of meetings of local feminists. As a brochure in the Library’s archives explains, these seminars, scheduled to take place five times a year, aimed to “further academic research on material by and about women

Huntington Staff

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Spotlight: Head of a Boy by Sargent Claude Johnson

Head of a Boy by Sargent Claude Johnson is a glazed terracotta sculpture created around 1928. A young Black boy from Johnson’s neighborhood inspired the sculpture. Johnson's work stands out due to his embrace of Black identity at a time when many popular depictions of Black people were racist.

References and Resources

The Nature of Historical or National Myths

Huntington's 100th rose
News

News Release - The Huntington Announces a Year-Long Centennial Celebration to Begin in Fall of 2019

Sep. 6, 2018

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today plans to mark its centennial with a year-long series of exhibitions and programs celebrating the impact of the research and educational institution's incomparable collections

Snark, the vessel on which the Londons and their crew attempted an around-the-world trip, at anchor in Apia, Samoa, 1908
Verso

Jack and Charmian’s National Park Adventures

Jul. 22, 2016

In commemoration of the centennial of the creation of the National Park Service, The Huntington is mounting two related exhibitions. The first part, "Geographies of Wonder: Origin Stories of America's National Parks, 1872–1933," is on view through Sept. 5, 2016.

Chinese woodblock print of a bird
Verso

Chinese Poetry, Painting, and Gardens

Sep. 15, 2016

Sometimes an object comes along that has so many ties to an institution's collecting areas, it's hard for curators to pass it up. That's what happened in 2014, when The Huntington acquired the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting

Chinese Garden art gallery
News

News Release - Chinese Garden’s New Art Gallery Will Make its Debut with an Inaugural Exhibition Featuring Contemporary Calligraphy

Jun. 3, 2021

Postponed for more than a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the highly anticipated opening of the Chinese Garden’s new art gallery is now scheduled to take place this summer at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

 Patti Perret, photograph of Octavia E. Butler seated by her bookcase, 1984.  The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. © Patti Perret
News

News Release - As Part of Its Centennial Celebration, The Huntington Seeds a New Fellowship in Honor of Octavia E. Butler

Aug. 19, 2020

As part of its Centennial Celebration, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has announced the creation of a one-year fellowship for the study of Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006)

Author Octavia E. Butler, 1986. Photo by Patti Perret.
Verso

Telling Her Stories

Apr. 6, 2017

The Huntington is launching the first major exhibition on the life and work of award-winning science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), whose literary archive resides here. She was 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.

Chinese calligraphy
News

News Release - Chinese Garden’s New Art Gallery to Feature Contemporary Calligraphy in Inaugural Exhibition Focused on Illuminating the Art Form

Aug. 13, 2019

Timed to coincide with the grand opening in May 2020 of the final phase of its Chinese Garden, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will present an exhibition of Chinese calligraphy as the inaugural installation in the garden's new art gallery.

Artwork by Kahlil Joseph
News

News Release - 30 Artists Revealed for Upcoming Biennial “Made in L.A. 2020: A Version”

Jan. 21, 2020

The Hammer Museum and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today the 30 artists participating in "Made in L.A. 2020: a version," the fifth iteration of the Hammer's biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area.

Collage of Verso article images from 2022
Verso

Reflecting on 2022 at The Huntington

Dec. 27, 2022

As 2022 draws to a close, we invite you to look back at some of our favorite Verso stories from the past year. Below is a selection of posts, one from each of the past 12 months, highlighting what makes The Huntington such a remarkable place.

Moore Mask
News

News Release - Henry Moore Prints Exhibition Opens June 16

May 24, 2018

An exhibition focused on the surprising diversity of styles and subject matter found in the graphic art made by Henry Moore (1898-1986), the most prominent British sculptor of the 20th-century, will go on view at The Huntington

Moore Five Reclining Figures
News

News Release - Trove of Works on Paper by Sculptor Henry Moore Joins The Huntington's Collections

Dec. 14, 2017

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a major collection of graphic art by Henry Moore (1898–1986), the most prominent British sculptor of the 20th-century.

William Allison Sweeney, History of the American Negro in the Great World War, 1919, Cuneo-Henneberry, Chicago. This photo in Sweeney’s book shows troops arriving in France. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Verso

The Library Tells the Story of “Nineteen Nineteen”

Jan. 2, 2020

Once asked by the press if he planned to write a memoir, the famously private Henry E. Huntington demurred.

Henry Meigs
Verso

Of Rats and Men

Mar. 27, 2019

In the spring of 1838, Henry Meigs (1782–1861)—a veteran of the War of 1812, former U.S. Representative, and a successful lawyer—discovered that he was sharing his house

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