News
News Release - The Huntington’s Historic Tea Room Slated to Reopen by Spring 2023
Wed., Sept. 7, 2022
The renovation project includes the restoration of the front of the original 1911 building and a new pavilion opening onto the Shakespeare Garden.
Mutual Entanglement of New Media and the Law
Tue., Sept. 6, 2022 | Jennifer Tucker
From prints to cartoons, courtroom sketches to photographs, cinema to the internet, “new media” is a diverse and constantly evolving collection of cultural forms and technologies that shape, and are shaped by, the law.
U.S. Civil War
Beyond All Earthly Power
Tue., Aug. 30, 2022 | Olga Tsapina
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.
A Gasteria by Any Other Name
Tue., Aug. 16, 2022 | Sandy Masuo
Gasteria species were included in the genus Aloe until 1809, when French physician and botanist Henri August Duval proposed they be moved into the new genus Gasteria, named for the slightly bulbous, stomach-like shape of the flowers.
Botanical
The Allure of Aroids
Tue., July 26, 2022 | Sandy Masuo
When you step into The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science at The Huntington, you are instantly transported to another world. Consistently warm and humid conditions create a pocket of the tropics that houses a grand display of plant adaptations.
Family Archive Related to Jane Austen
Tue., July 19, 2022 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.
In 1736, just four days before Christmas, 5-year-old Mary “Molly” Leigh wrote a formal letter to her father, Theophilus Leigh, Master of Balliol College, Oxford. The first page of the letter is ruled with straight lines to serve as guides for the novice hand, but the second page lacks them....
Lecture
The Medium Is the Message: Drawing in Britain, 1750-1950
Wed., July 13, 2022
Ann Bermingham, professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, uncovers the methods used to create British drawings between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Excursions of Imagination
Tue., July 12, 2022 | Ann Bermingham
Stretching from the 17th to the 20th century, the range of drawings and watercolors in Excursions of Imagination: 100 Great British Drawings from The Huntington’s Collection testifies not only to the richness of The Huntington’s acquisitions but also to the breadth of British graphic art.
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires the Archive of Leading Early 20th-Century LA Architects John and Donald Parkinson
Tue., July 12, 2022
The extensive, little-known collection documents the development of LA’s City Hall, Union Station, Memorial Coliseum, and other landmarks.
Video
A William Blake Hand Printed Drawing (1795)
Fri., July 8, 2022
There is a unique print found in our exhibition “100 Great British Drawings” that was almost not included.
News
News Release - New Exhibition Will Explore the Making of The Huntington’s Chinese Garden
Wed., July 6, 2022
Visitors to The Huntington will have the chance to gain insight into the design and construction of its Chinese Garden in the “Crafting a Garden: Inside the Creation of Liu Fang Yuan”
Botanical
Titanic Mysteries
Tue., July 5, 2022 | Sandy Masuo
In the botanical world, the Amorphophallus titanum, or Titan Arum, has been an A-list celebrity. The Huntington first acquired one in March 1999, and five months later, the Scott Gallery Loggia was the site of the first recorded flowering of Titan Arum in California.