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.
Lecture
Some Thoughts on the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Thu., Sept. 9, 2021
In this talk, Qianshen Bai, professor and Dean of the School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University, explores some foundational questions concerning Chinese calligraphy: How did writing become a fine art in China? Where is the boundary between functional writing and visual art?
News
News Release - The Huntington Commissions Kehinde Wiley to Paint a New Work Inspired by "The Blue Boy"
Thu., Sept. 9, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has commissioned the renowned artist Kehinde Wiley to create a new work inspired by Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (ca. 1770).
Lecture
38th Annual Succulent Plants Symposium
Fri., Sept. 3, 2021
The Huntington presents the 38th Annual Succulent Plants Symposium as a Zoom webinar for the second year in a row.
News
News Release - Yinshi Lerman-Tan Appointed Associate Curator of American Art at The Huntington
Thu., Sept. 2, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today the appointment of Yinshi Lerman-Tan as the new Bradford and Christine Mishler Associate Curator of American Art.
Video
Certificate of Identity: What Now, Part 2
Tue., Aug. 24, 2021
From 1909 to 1928, the U.S. government required all Chinese people with legal status in the country to obtain certificates of identity. Li Wei Yang, curator of Pacific Rim Collections, explains how this document can help us understand our current immigration enforcement debates.