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Library

Extraordinary Expenses

Wed., June 23, 2021 | Olga Tsapina
In March 1852, Charles Devens, the United States Marshal for Massachusetts, submitted an expense report
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.
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

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."
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
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.