Exhibitions
News Release - “Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts” Coming to The Huntington
Thu., June 30, 2022
The international traveling exhibition explores 18th-century French decorative arts as inspiration for Disney’s celebrated animated films, including Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.
Botanical
Water, Water, Everywhere?
Tue., June 28, 2022 | Sandy Masuo
In arid 21st-century California, April arrives at the tail end of the rainy season, which concluded this year with a water shortage emergency announcement. By the time state officials released the statement on April 27, The Huntington's Botanical and Facilities staff members, who closely monitor rainfall and water consumption throughout...
Profiles
Welcoming the 2022–23 Research Fellows
Tue., June 21, 2022 | Steve Hindle
June is a wonderful time of year at The Huntington: The flowers are in bloom, the gardens and galleries are bustling with visitors, and a fresh cohort of scholars are once again poring over our world-class collection of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, paintings, prints, and much more.
Video
2022 Corpse Flower Time Lapse
Sun., June 19, 2022
A time lapse of the 2022 Corpse Flower bloom at The Huntington recorded over a period of about 40 hours. The rare Amorphophallus titanum plant bloomed on June 19, 2022.
Art
Laura Aguilar’s California
Tue., June 14, 2022 | Linde B. Lehtinen, Ph.D. and Dennis Carr
A woman lies naked on the ground, warmed by the sun. The organic lines of her body echo the color and curves of the stone beneath her, and she seems to merge with her environment. The central image is flanked by two photographs of desert bunchgrasses and California fuchsia plants,...
Botanical
Gifts from Japan
Tue., June 7, 2022 | Robert Hori
Robert Hori, the gardens cultural curator and program director at The Huntington, was invited to serve as guest curator for an exhibition at the Portland Japanese Garden. The collaborative result is “Gifts from Japan: A Horticultural Tale Told through Botanical Art,” an exhibition that focuses on the intersection of garden...
Lecture
Coloring the Conservation Conversation
Tue., June 7, 2022
Author J. Drew Lanham discusses what it means to embrace the full breadth of his African American heritage and his deep kinship to nature and adoration of birds.
Exhibitions
News Release - “100 Great British Drawings” Opens June 18
Thu., June 2, 2022
Exploring a range of styles among The Huntington’s premier collection of British drawings and watercolors from the 17th to the mid-20th century, the exhibition highlights rarely seen works from masters of the medium, including William Blake, John Brett, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, and J. M. W. Turner.
Education
Thinking Outside the (Art) Box
Tue., May 31, 2022 | Sandy Masuo
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the amount of time that people spent focused on screens was an issue of concern. Sarah Wilson of the Autry Museum had an idea: bring together museum education staff to find an innovative way to serve the needs of children and families beyond online learning.
Art
Miki Hayakawa: Painting in Place
Tue., May 24, 2022 | Yinshi Lerman-Tan
Miki Hayakawa’s From My Window—on loan from the collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra in The Huntington’s Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art—captures a specific place and time.
Lectures
Helping a Nation Live Up to Its Ideals
Tue., May 17, 2022 | Cheryl Cheng
Why do museums matter? It’s a question on the minds of many museum leaders today, including Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, who spoke at The Huntington last month with Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence and Huntington Governor Robert C. Davidson Jr. The event, held in a packed Rothenberg Hall,...
A Place at the Nayarit
Mon., May 16, 2022 | Natalia Molina
Natalia Molina grew up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park and spent evenings at the Mexican restaurant her mother owned, the Nayarit, a local landmark that her grandmother founded in 1951.