Exhibitions
News Release - The Huntington and Ghetto Film School Present 15 New Student Works in Inaugural Installation
Wed., Nov. 10, 2021
In an ongoing partnership with Ghetto Film School, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is serving as a training ground for student filmmakers exploring careers in the film industry.
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News Release - At The Huntington, 2021 Served as a Banner Year for American Art Acquisitions
Thu., Nov. 4, 2021
The 50-plus works span more than 100 years and are by a diverse group of artists from North America, including Mary Lee Bendolph, Lola Álvarez Bravo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Thomas Cole, Mercedes Dorame, Lockwood de Forest, Herter Brothers, Charles Bird King, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Cara Romero, and Kehinde Wiley.
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Kehinde Wiley: “A Portrait of a Young Gentleman” Artist Remarks
Tue., Nov. 2, 2021
The Huntington celebrated American artist Kehinde Wiley with a reception in honor of his painting A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, commissioned by The Huntington as a contemporary response to Thomas
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Reading the Lotus: A Garden of Words
Mon., Nov. 1, 2021
Wang Shixiang 王世襄 was 93 years old when he created the inscription “Love for the Lotus Pavilion” for The Huntington. The original handscroll is currently on view as part of the exhibition “A Garden of Words: The Calligraphy of Liu Fang Yuan.”
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News Release - The Huntington Acquires the Greene & Greene Archives in a Gift from the Gamble House Conservancy
Thu., Oct. 28, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired the archives of legendary Arts and Crafts architects Greene & Greene. The trove of approximately 6,000 items includes design drawings and photographs, business correspondence, family papers, notebooks, scrapbooks, artifacts, and reference books
Lecture
Frankenstein on Screen: Mary Shelley’s Adapted Progeny
Thu., Oct. 28, 2021
Mary Shelley likened the writing of her famous book to Victor Frankenstein’s making of his creature. In this lecture, James Chandler, professor at the University of Chicago and The Huntington's R.
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Thoreau’s Walden: Four Contemporary Writers on its Enduring Relevance
Wed., Oct. 27, 2021
Authors Kristen Case, Gerald Early, Pico Iyer, and Megan Marshall in conversation with Karla Nielsen, Curator of Literary Collections at The Huntington
Exhibitions
News Release - Exhibition to Explore the Construction of Fictional Worlds through Maps and Novels
Tue., Oct. 26, 2021
On the occasion of the centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses, “Mapping Fiction” includes works by Octavia E. Butler, William Faulkner, Jack and Charmian London, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Mark Twain, among others.
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News Release - Huntington Conference to Celebrate the Centennial of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
Tue., Oct. 26, 2021
To mark the centennial of the publication of James Joyce’s groundbreaking modernist novel Ulysses, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will present an academic conference, “Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of Ulysses”
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Calligraphy in the Lingering Garden, Suzhou
Thu., Oct. 21, 2021
Amy McNair, professor of Chinese art at the University of Kansas, explores the calligraphy found in the Lingering Garden in Suzhou, a famous setting for two outdoor formats of calligraphy.
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Astronomy in Arcadia: Galileo and Guarini’s “Pastor Fido”
Wed., Oct. 20, 2021
Nothing generated interest, imitation, and outrage throughout Europe better and more lastingly than Giambattista Guarini's Pastor Fido.
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News Release - The Huntington Acquires Archive of Acclaimed Novelist and Travel Writer Pico Iyer
Wed., Oct. 20, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the archive of acclaimed novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer, author of such bestsellers as The Art of Stillness and The Open Road.