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A black and white image of a smoke cloud rising from the ground with a person walking away.
Exhibition

Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis

Sept. 14, 2024–Jan. 6, 2025

Sept. 14, 2024–Jan. 6, 2025 | “Storm Cloud” analyzes the impact of industrialization and a globalized economy on everyday life from 1780 to 1930, as charted by scientists, artists, and writers, and contextualizes the current climate crisis within this historical framework.

Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirror
Exhibition

Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection

Nov. 12, 2011–May 15, 2012

Few things provide a clearer picture of an ancient civilization than the study of its material culture: the objects a society created, used, and valued. For certain scholars of Chinese culture, the broad sweep of history can be found reflected in a particularly beautiful art form: exquisitely crafted mirrors made of bronze.

Jack Smith at his writing desk
Exhibition

Smith on Wry: Jack Smith, Columnist for Our Times

Feb. 15, 2008–May 12, 2008

Smith on Wry: Jack Smith, Columnist for Our Times, looks at Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith, one of the most popular newspaper columnists in Southern California history.

Garden Sculptures & Fountains

In 1910, Henry E. Huntington began acquiring a large collection of outdoor sculptures, personally deciding on the exact location for each piece. Love is a common theme, most of which dates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, although some are the works of 20th-century American artists.

2021–22 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

Printed illustration of a flea.

Micrographia

Discovering a Hidden Universe and Creating Science

Garden with standing water in the foreground, a large rock next to the water ,and a one-room structure with a curved roof on a hill above the water.

Chinese Garden

A Garden for Scholarship, Relaxation, and Human Connection

Corpse Flower

The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) also known as the Corpse Flower produces the largest unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom.

Two illustrations of the moon showing a jagged line down the center. The top illustration has the line almost exactly in the middle and the bottom illustration has the line slightly to the left. To the left of the lines the moon is dark and to the right of the lines the moon is light.

Sidereus Nuncius

Galileo Galilei began a scientific revolution when he shared a new way of studying the universe in his book Siderius Nuncius.

Kevin Durkin

Kevin Durkin is the managing editor in the Office of Communications and Marketing. He is the editor of The Huntington’s blog, Verso, and its online magazine, Huntington Frontiers.

Diana W. Thompson

Thompson …

Black velvet cap in the shape of a pointed oval, with beadwork in blue, white, green, yellow, and red forming flowers and stems all over; made by a Haudenosaunee woman.

Niagara Hat

How do our cultural values affect the way we view and create art?

Kevin Dawson looking at a book.
Verso

For Some Enslaved Africans, Water Was a Savior

Feb. 7, 2023

Currently on fellowship at The Huntington, I have been using my time to conduct research for my second book about how enslaved Africans in the Americas re-created and re-imagined African maritime traditions, including swimming, diving, surfing, boat-making, canoeing, and fishing.

Themed Gardens

The Huntington is home to 16 spectacular themed gardens spread across 120 acres.

2017–18 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

2017-18 Long-Term Fellows

R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow in the Humanities

2023-24 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

A Chinese brush painting depicting a bitter melon growing on a plant, accompanied with painting instructions in Chinese.
News

News Release – New Exhibition Will Explore Art Education in Early Modern China

May 23, 2023

Oct. 7, 2023–May 27, 2024 | A new exhibition will provide visitors with the opportunity to gain insight into early art education in China through painting manuals originally published in the 17th and 18th centuries.

2018-19 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

2019-20 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

Botanical Gardens

Encompassing about 130 acres, the Botanical Gardens feature living collections in 16 stunning themed gardens with more than 83,000 living plants, including rare and endangered species, and a laboratory for botanical conservati

Matt Stevens

Stevens …