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A cyan-tone book cover with an image of a rickshaw driver and a passenger posing for a photo in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, with white text that reads “Hollywood, tourism, and the making of a Chinese American community, Performing Chinatown, William Gow.”
Event

Performing Chinatown: A Conversation with William Gow & Bill Deverell

Tue., Sept. 10, 2024

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.

Faded black and white photo of train tracks running through a narrow canyon.
Event

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

Fri., May 24, 2024

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.”

Greenhouse Fantasies by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Exhibition

The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Jan. 25, 2020–May 11, 2020

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.

Exhibition

Frederick Hammersley: To Paint Without Thinking

Oct. 21, 2017–Jan. 22, 2018

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.

Mid-century etching of a hen
Exhibition

Evolving Ideas: Midcentury Printmakers Explore Process

Oct. 2, 2010–Jan. 4, 2011

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.

Colonel Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth standing alongside his sword dressed in his Union uniform.
Verso

Beyond All Earthly Power

Aug. 30, 2022

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.

Lead project gardener Gary Roberson works in The Huntington’s new hillside cycad garden, a dramatic showcase for thousands of plants donated by the late Loran and Eva Whitelock. Photo by Scott Berger.
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Take A Walk Among the Cycads

Jul. 29, 2020

If you're returning to The Huntington soon, one of the places you may want to visit is the cycad walk.

Los Angeles Times building circa 1935
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Times of Change

Jul. 17, 2018

This month, Los Angeles Times employees decamp from their namesake building at the corner of First and Spring streets downtown. After 83 years of occupying the building, the Times is moving staff to a new home in El Segundo—leaving behind a monumental icon of the city's Art Deco period.

Researchers in the library reading room
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Welcoming New Research Fellows

Jun. 27, 2016

Summer is a busy time for The Huntington’s research program. As the academic year draws to a close, it’s time for a changing of the guard. The fellowship selection process for the 2016–17 program is complete

Andy Warhols Brillo Box
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Top 10 Stories about Huntington Acquisitions

Dec. 21, 2011

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.

Image of whaling ships
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A Whale of a Discovery

Feb. 11, 2016

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

A spool of thread and a written note on folded paper.
Frontiers

Guns, Secession, and a Secret Message in a Spool

Feb. 6, 2024

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.

Larry Johnson

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Detail of Neapolitan Fisher-girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight by J.M.W. Turner,
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Buying a Turner

Feb. 20, 2015

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

Loren Rothschild
News

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

Jun. 9, 2021

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

Lily Ponds
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Flourishing Lily Ponds

Jul. 12, 2017

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

Landscape designer Takuhiro Yamada and his pruning crew
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Big Bonsai? Not Really

Apr. 21, 2017

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

Drawing of a bird
Frontiers

Counting Extinction

Apr. 1, 2018

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.

John Frame sculpture
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EXHIBITIONS | Frame by Frame

Feb. 11, 2011

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

Mimosa pudica
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Mimosas All Around!

Jan. 25, 2013

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"

Artist Carolina Caycedo
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Artists Research and Reflect

Jun. 20, 2018

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.

An Offering to Roots by Tang Qingnian
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An Offering to Roots

Jul. 10, 2019

An art installation unlike any The Huntington has displayed before is now on view in the Chinese Garden