Making a Better World through Architecture
Tue., Dec. 13, 2022 | Lynne Heffley
What can architecture aspire to be? Award-winning architect and educator Billie Tsien has some ideas and shared them in conversation with Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence last month as part of The Huntington’s “Why It Matters” series.
Library
Why It Matters: Billie Tsien in Conversation with Karen R. Lawrence
Tue., Dec. 13, 2022
Architect and educator Billie Tsien joins Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence to discuss how the built environment shapes individual and communal experiences, the interplay between design and purpose, and how architecture can empower future generations.
News
News Release - The 320-Year-Old Japanese Heritage Shōya House Will Open in Fall 2023
Tue., Dec. 6, 2022
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will open a major new feature in its renowned Japanese Garden in the fall of 2023, when the reconstruction of a 320-year-old magistrate’s (shōya) house from Marugame, Japan, will be complete.
Race and Place in 19th-Century New York State
Tue., Nov. 29, 2022 | Tim Barringer and Graham Hodges
The monumental Portage Falls on the Genesee (ca. 1839) by the 19th-century English American landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801–1848) is at once beautiful and sublime, depicting the overwhelming scale and power of nature in a spectacular region of upstate New York.
Two Sisters of Blazing Genius
Tue., Nov. 22, 2022 | Devoney Looser
Devoney Looser is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of 10 books on literature by women. The following excerpt comes from Looser’s most recent book, “Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës.”
Lectures
Learning from Edo
Thu., Nov. 17, 2022
Azby Brown, author of Just Enough, Lessons from Japan for Sustainable Living, Architecture, and Design, examined what it is like to live in a fully sustainable society.
A Founding Document
Wed., Nov. 16, 2022 | Olga Tsapina
In September 1758, the 62-year-old Lt. Col. Conrad Weiser (1696–1760), a veteran Indian interpreter, recorded a speech delivered by a man whose name he rendered as Ackowano Thio, or Ackowanothio.
Lecture
Imagining Shakespeare in 2050: Performance and Archives
Fri., Nov. 11, 2022
Join a panel of scholars and artistic directors in dialogue about Shakespeare’s work, theatrical performances, and archives, as well as his future role in the world at large.
Lecture
Underrepresented Voices in the Archive
Thu., Nov. 10, 2022
Huntington curators Dr. Linde B. Lehtinen and Li Wei Yang discuss and highlight the Library's African American, Asian American, Indigenous, and LGBTQ collections. Moderated by Dr. Natalia Molina, Interim, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research.
What Is the Future of Shakespeare?
Tue., Nov. 8, 2022 | Ayanna Thompson
William Shakespeare remained the most produced playwright in the world in 2022, but will he maintain that status by 2050? While major research libraries continue to build their collections around their Shakespearean holdings, the purpose of the research library is in flux.
Rooted in Conservation
Tue., Nov. 1, 2022 | Nicole Cavender
Most guests who visit the botanical gardens at The Huntington appreciate their beauty, but there is much more to them than meets the eye. Our living plant collection is both regionally and globally diverse. Thousands of the species in our care are not found in any other botanical garden.
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Major Work by Female 18th-Century French Master Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Tue., Nov. 1, 2022
Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe François-de-Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil is the second masterpiece purchased through an Ahmanson Foundation gift.