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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.
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.
President's Message: What's Old Is New Again, and Again
Nov./Dec. 2018
2024-25 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.
An Offering to Roots
An art installation unlike any The Huntington has displayed before is now on view in the Chinese Garden
Take A Walk Among the Cycads
If you're returning to The Huntington soon, one of the places you may want to visit is the cycad walk.
Times of Change
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.
Welcoming New Research Fellows
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
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.
Welcoming the 2024–25 Huntington Research Fellows
The Huntington has awarded long-term research fellowships to 13 individuals who will be in residence for the full academic year and 120 short-term fellowships, as well as six travel grants for study in the U.K., Mexico, and Peru, and eight exchange fellowships to sister institutions in the U.K. and Ireland.
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
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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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
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
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...
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"
2022 Library Collectors’ Council Acquisitions
Five remarkable collections that tell vivid stories from the perspectives of a broad range of historical figures landed at The Huntington recently, courtesy of the Library Collectors’ Council, a group of Huntington supporters who help fund the purchase of new materials to add to the institution’s holdings.