News
News Release - The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Form Major Art Acquisitions Partnership
Mon., Oct. 18, 2021
In an agreement destined to have transformative results, The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens have formed a major art acquisitions partnership that provides significant funding to The Huntington to purchase masterpieces of European or American art to add to its collection.
Conference
An Overflow of Meaning: Reading and Re-reading Hilary Mantel - Virtual Conference
Thu., Oct. 14, 2021
Hilary Mantel, whose literary archive is held at The Huntington, is one of the most critically acclaimed authors working today.
Lecture
War Torn Californios: The Civil Wars of Antonio and Porfirio Jimeno
Wed., Oct. 13, 2021
Jesse Alemán, professor of English at the University of New Mexico, discusses the lives and letters of the Jimeno brothers, whose coming of age in the years before the U.S.
Lectures
Reading and Rereading Hilary Mantel
Wed., Oct. 13, 2021 | Lucy Arnold
Hilary Mantel, whose literary archive is held at The Huntington, is one of the most critically acclaimed authors working today.
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires a Comprehensive Collection on the History of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery
Tue., Oct. 12, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired one of the world’s most significant libraries focused on the history of cardiology and cardiovascular science.
Video
Forgotten Pallbearers of Abraham Lincoln: What Now, Part 2
Wed., Oct. 6, 2021
Olga Tsapina, curator of American historical manuscripts at The Huntington, discusses the importance of a little-known photograph from renowned Civil War photographer Mathew Brady's studio that reveals the forgotten pallbearers of Abraham Lincoln, now on display in the exhibition “
Exhibitions
News Release - Kehinde Wiley's "Portrait of a Young Gentleman" Revealed Today
Sat., Oct. 2, 2021
Visitors get a first look at Kehinde Wiley's A Portrait of a Young Gentleman today as it makes its world debut at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The institution's newly commissioned work reconceives its famous painting The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) by Thomas Gainsborough in a contemporary...
Conference
Looking Like a Person: Portraits after Coloniality - Virtual Conference
Sat., Oct. 2, 2021
This symposium interrogates the issues raised by contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley's new painting Portrait of a Young Gentleman, which responds to Thomas Gainsborough's grand manner masterpiece The Blue Boy.
Lecture
Wild Cursive Calligraphy, Poetry, and Buddhist Monks in the Eighth Century and Beyond
Thu., Sept. 30, 2021
Huiwen Lu, professor of art history at National Taiwan University, takes the audience into the strange and enchanting world of wild cursive calligraphy when it first appeared in China in the late seventh and early eighth centuries.
Events
A Garden of Calligraphy
Wed., Sept. 29, 2021 | Cheryl Cheng
Calligraphy is one of the oldest and most esteemed art forms in China. Its distinctive quality arises from its duality as both a visual art form and a means of written communication. This becomes apparent in The Huntington's exhibition "A Garden of Words: The Calligraphy of Liu Fang Yuan."
News
News Release - Key Painting from the Age of Enlightenment Will Be Presented at The Huntington
Wed., Sept. 22, 2021
Joseph Wright of Derby’s An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) will be installed in the context of two strengths of The Huntington’s collections: British art and the history of science “Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby”
Library
The Migrant Experience, in Spanish
Wed., Sept. 22, 2021 | Clay Stalls
The Huntington has deep collections on the history of Spanish-speaking North America created from a centurylong record of acquiring materials in this field.