Library
Times of Change
Tue., July 17, 2018 | Amy Miller
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.
Botanical
Master Gardeners at the Ranch
Wed., July 11, 2018 | Manuela Gomez Rhine
The master gardeners who volunteer each Saturday at the Huntington Ranch Garden Open House are the perfect hosts for this one-of-a-kind garden experience...
Library
Fourth of July Fireworks
Tue., July 3, 2018 | Manuela Gomez Rhine
The offerings are explosive: "Balloon Rockets, Devil Bombs, and Barking Dog Cap Bombs, Floating Stars changing colors, making a most beautiful display in the air," reads a fireworks catalog entry. A promotional poster announces Sanderson & Lanergan, pyrotechnists to Boston, and promises a fireworks show, "[f]urnished as usual in the...
Research
The New Fellows
Wed., June 27, 2018 | Steve Hindle
As one of the world's leading institutions for collections-based research, The Huntington has for almost a century provided essential support and a congenial environment for the conduct of scholarship in the humanities...
Art
Artists Research and Reflect
Wed., June 20, 2018 | Carribean Fragoza
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.
Exhibitions
Henry Moore on Paper
Wed., June 13, 2018 | Melinda McCurdy
Can a piece of sculpture and a print on paper have the same effect? The differences between them seem clear.
Library
In Wonderland
Wed., June 6, 2018 | Natalie Russell
We have invited Natalie Russell, assistant curator of literary collections at The Huntington, to share with us her take on Lewis Carroll and items in our collections related to him and his work.
History of Science
Medicine by Moonlight
Wed., May 30, 2018 | Leah Klement
In The Huntington's collections, there is a late 15th-century manuscript whose title in the Library catalog is "Astrological and Medical Compilation." Many medieval manuscripts are "compiled" in the sense that they frequently collect heterogeneous materials...
Botanical
Puyas in Bloom
Wed., May 23, 2018 | Manuela Gomez Rhine
A recent tour of Puya in the Desert Garden with The Huntington's curator of the desert collections, John Trager, turned me from a Puya Ignoramus to a Puya Enthusiast.
Exhibitions
Out of the Woods
Wed., May 16, 2018 | Linda Chiavaroli
Visitors to public gardens tend to view trees as background. Exotic blooms, shimmering ponds, and sweeping vistas of color draw the eye more readily. "Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens"
Conferences
"Frankenstein" Then and Now
Wed., May 9, 2018 | Jerrold E. Hogle
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus first appeared in print 200 hundred years ago, when the author was only 20. Since 1818, her boundary-breaking novel has become the most famous "Gothic"
Botanical
The Name of the Rose
Wed., May 2, 2018 | Manuela Gomez Rhine
An old Hollywood crowd graces bed number 15 North in The Huntington's Rose Garden. 'Ronald Reagan' and 'Nancy Reagan' naturally stand together, with 'Ginger Rogers' to one side, 'Dick Clark' on the other, and 'Lucille Ball' and 'Cary Grant' nearby.