Exhibitions
News Release - Chinese Garden’s New Art Gallery Will Make its Debut with an Inaugural Exhibition Featuring Contemporary Calligraphy
Thu., June 3, 2021
Postponed for more than a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the highly anticipated opening of the Chinese Garden’s new art gallery is now scheduled to take place this summer at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Video
Fear of Poetry Screening with Jack Skelley and Sabrina Tarasoff
Wed., June 2, 2021
Join writer Jack Skelley and "Made in L.A. 2020" artist Sabrina Tarasoff for a virtual screening and conversation on Gail Kaszynski's 1983 documentary Fear of Poetry.
Botanical
Bless This House
Wed., June 2, 2021 | Lisa Blackburn
Offerings of fruit, rice cakes, fish, and wine; humble gifts of pine sprigs; scatterings of salt; rhythmic chants; and a taiko drum’s deep resonant tones soaring skyward to invoke the spirits. These were some of the sights and sounds of the jotoshiki, a Shinto roof-raising ceremony
Video
Lunchtime Art Talk on Ann Greene Kelly
Wed., June 2, 2021
Join Nika Chilewich, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Ann Greene Kelly, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version."
News
News Release - Huntington Adds Eight Members to Board of Governors
Thu., May 27, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has announced that eight new members will join its Board of Governors, effective July 1, 2021.
Video
Lunchtime Art Talk on Jeffrey Stuker
Wed., May 26, 2021
Join Lauren Mackler, co-curator of "Made in L.A. 2020: a version," for this short and insightful discussion about artist Jeffrey Stuker, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition.
West of Slavery
Wed., May 26, 2021 | Kevin Waite
In his book, West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), Kevin Waite, assistant professor of history at Durham University in England, uncovers the surprising history of the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations.
Lecture
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History
Wed., May 26, 2021
Karlos K. Hill, Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, discusses his new book The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History.
Lecture
White Supremacy in the West: Immigration and Racial Justice in Southern California
Wed., May 26, 2021
Professor Kathleen Belew in Conversation with Distinguished Professor and MacArthur Fellow Natalia Molina
Lecture
The Labor of Good Governance: Cultivation Real and Imagined in the Imperial Garden of Clear Ripples in 18th-Century China
Thu., May 20, 2021
Roslyn Lee Hammers, associate professor of art history at the University of Hong Kong, discusses depictions of rural life produced for an 18th-century Chinese emperor's residence.
Lecture
The Huntington Library’s Gutenberg Bible and the Art of the Book in 15th-Century Europe
Wed., May 19, 2021
Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at Princeton University, investigates the history and art of The Huntington's Gutenberg Bible, beginning with the beautiful black-ink printing on fine vellum in Mainz ca.
Lecture
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
Wed., May 19, 2021
Join us as George J. Sanchez, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, discusses his book on the neighborhood of Boyle Heights with four USC doctoral students.