Video
Conversations with Hedi El Kholti & Reynaldo Rivera
Tue., July 13, 2021
Join "Made in L.A. 2020" artists Hedi El Kholti and Reynaldo Rivera as they play records and discuss music that has had a profound influence in their lives.
The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.
Library
The Monster in the Mirror
Wed., July 7, 2021 | Sara K. Austin
What sparks the lightning bolt of insight? How do we come to see with new eyes? Literature can expose us to perspectives strange to us, but our interpretations can also be clouded by familiarity.
News
News Release - Huntington to Lend Its Iconic "Blue Boy" to the National Gallery, London
Tue., June 29, 2021
One hundred years after Henry E. Huntington purchased Thomas Gainsborough’s masterpiece, The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) from the Duke of Westminster, and it set sail from England for its new home in the United States
Video
God’s Suicide by Harmony Holiday
Thu., June 24, 2021
Join actor Larry Powell as he portrays writer and public intellectual James Baldwin in this production of "Made in L.A. 2020" artist Harmony Holiday's one-man play, God's Suicide, which looks at Black male vulnerability as its central subject.
Library
Extraordinary Expenses
Wed., June 23, 2021 | Olga Tsapina
In March 1852, Charles Devens, the United States Marshal for Massachusetts, submitted an expense report
News
News Release - Huntington Adds Three New Members to Board of Trustees
Wed., June 23, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announces the addition of three new members to its Board of Trustees. They are Christine Bender, J. Mario Molina, and Mei-Lee Ney.
Art
Queer Artist, Queer Courage
Wed., June 16, 2021 | Manuela Gomez Rhine
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908) unapologetically pursued her ambitions as a sculptor in a field considered inappropriate for women and lived openly as a lesbian
Video
Hedi El Kholti & Abdellah Taïa: Toward the sea, Where we meet
Tue., June 15, 2021
Join "Made in L.A. 2020" artist Hedi El Kholti and writer, filmmaker Abdellah Taïa as they read excerpts from their respective works and discuss their shared experiences growing up queer in Morocco and their journeys translating those experiences into writing, art, and film.
Lecture
Crafting a Literati Utopia in 19th-Century Japan: The Plum Blossom Valley at Tsukigase
Thu., June 10, 2021
Dr. Yurika Wakamatsu, assistant professor of East Asian art history at Occidental College, explores Tsukigase, a plum-filled mountain valley in today's Nara Prefecture that came to be celebrated as a paradisiacal site in nineteenth-century Japan.
Library
A Walk on the Wilde Side
Wed., June 9, 2021 | Natalie Russell
Born in Dublin and named for Irish folk heroes, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) became a cultural hero in his own right
News
News Release - Huntington Announces Retirement of Loren Rothschild, Expansion of Board of Trustees
Wed., June 9, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens today announced a pair of developments regarding its Board of Trustees: Loren Rothschild, serving as a member since 2009 and as chair since 2017, will retire to become Trustee Emeritus
Lecture
Conscience and Victorian Empire: How History Helped Make History in British India
Wed., June 9, 2021
Priya Satia, professor of history at Stanford University, explores the ways in which Victorian thinkers drew on a historical sensibility to understand and justify British rule in India.