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Performing Chinatown: A Conversation with William Gow & Bill Deverell

Join Professor William Gow as he discusses his new book, “Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community,” with William Deverell, historian and founding director of ICW.

Continental Reckoning: A Conversation with Elliott West and Megan Kate Nelson

Join author Elliott West in a conversation with historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Kate Nelson about West’s sweeping new book, “Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion.”

The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Jan. 25, 2020–May 11, 2020 | Five studies of fictional characters by contemporary artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye create a dialogue with The Huntington's collection of formal 18th-century British portraits in this exhibition curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als.

Frederick Hammersley: To Paint Without Thinking

This exhibition on American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) showcases his sketchbooks, notebooks, inventories, and vibrant color swatches to illuminate the painstaking process the artist used to create his hard-edge geometric paintings.

A Strange and Fearful Interest: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the American Civil War

A Strange and Fearful Interest is drawn exclusively from The Huntington's collection of photographs related to the Civil War, offering an unprecedented opportunity to bring this rare and evocative material to light.

Evolving Ideas: Midcentury Printmakers Explore Process

Visually evocative prints and related artwork are featured in an exhibition that explores American artists' innovative and unconventional printmaking techniques in the years during and just after World War II.

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Top 10 Stories about Huntington Acquisitions

A look back on the year of The Huntington Blogs, where we covered more than a hundred stories about the Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

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A Whale of a Discovery

It's not every day that a lithograph from The Huntington's collections is used to publicize a major archaeological discovery. But that's what happened last month, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration posted one of The Huntington's prints

Guns, Secession, and a Secret Message in a Spool

The Huntington’s Edward Davis Townsend collection contained something rather curious: a spool of thread with a note hidden inside that shed new light on the dramatic events that unfolded shortly after the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860.

Beyond All Earthly Power

In the predawn hours of May 24, 1861, the 11th Regiment of New York Infantry disembarked from steamers in Alexandria, Virginia. The men, commanded by Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth (1837–1861), who was only 24 years old, met no resistance.

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Flourishing Lily Ponds

The Lily Ponds, among the first garden features developed at The Huntington, are at their seasonal peak now. William Hertrich, Henry Huntington's first superintendent of the gardens, created the five descending ponds from natural springs

News Release - Huntington Announces Retirement of Loren Rothschild, Expansion of Board of Trustees

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens today announced a pair of developments regarding its Board of Trustees: Loren Rothschild, serving as a member since 2009 and as chair since 2017, will retire to become Trustee Emeritus

Big Bonsai? Not Really

For Kyoto-based landscape designer Takuhiro Yamada, the tea garden he designed in The Huntington's Japanese Garden is a work in progress. Each year, he returns to check on its development and chooses a few areas where he can help infuse the plants

Counting Extinction

The last observations of a small Hawaiian birdIn Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai‘i (Yale University Press, 2018), Daniel Lewis takes readers on a 1,000-year journey as he explores the Hawaiian Islands’ beautiful birds and a variety of topics...

Teacher-Led School Tours

Teacher-led school tours are available for K–12 teachers who wish to bring their students on learning visits Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. October through May only.

President's Message: What's Old Is New Again, and Again

Nov./Dec. 2018

Artists Research and Reflect

Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr. begin their residencies at The Huntington by bringing distinct approaches to making new work inspired by the institution's library, art, and garden collections. Whether instinctive or methodical, intellectual or personal, both artists find ways to enter The Huntington and connect with larger historical narratives.

Buying a Turner

Interest in the 19th-century British landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) is stronger than ever. Director Mike Leigh's biopic Mr. Turner was nominated for four Oscars

EXHIBITIONS | Frame by Frame

Next month, a new exhibition featuring the work of California sculptor John Frame opens at The Huntington. "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame" will include sculptural figures

Mimosas All Around!

Mimosas all around! No, not the one you drink! The Mimosa I'm talking about is Mimosa pudica, "The Sensitive Plant" that is growing in The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science. Some may refer to this plant as "The Humble Plant" or even as "The Shame Plant"

Capture the Flag

Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter early in the morning of April 12, 1861. Two days later, Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fortification off the coast of South Carolina, but not before lowering the American flag and keeping it as a souvenir. A fragment of that flag is bound into a volume of a unique set of books in The Huntington Library.

Community Collaborations

More than 6,000 people engage with The Huntington’s collections each year through active community collaborations with organizations in Los Angeles and the surrounding area.