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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has awarded Alyssa Collins, assistant professor of English Language and Literature and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina, a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship for the study of the renowned science fiction writer.

Featuring the work of 30 emerging and under-recognized artists from the greater Los Angeles area, "Made in L.A. 2020: a version" presents mirroring exhibitions at the Hammer Museum and The Huntington—as well as at local sites like barbershops and hospital waiting rooms.

Key scholars come together at this two-day conference to assess developments in the study of Restoration women writers such as Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish (the Duchess of Newcastle), their reception in their own period, and increasing popularity today.

Join Connie Butler, chief curator at the Hammer, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Aria Dean, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version."

In 1984, The Huntington organized and hosted the first of a series of meetings of local feminists. As a brochure in the Library’s archives explains, these seminars, scheduled to take place five times a year, aimed to “further academic research on material by and about women

On April 8, 1949, a three-year-old girl fell down an abandoned water well in San Marino, California. The television coverage of the rescue attempt tapped into the deep spring of attention that a live broadcast can bring to news.

Join Nika Chilewich, curatorial assistant at the Hammer, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Kandis Williams, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version."

Join our digital library team for an overview of the process of digitizing documents to make them available to researchers in the Huntington Digital Library.

Library Collectors’ Council also purchases manuscripts by the British author Amelia Opie (1769–1853), the private journal of U.S. Navy officer Henry Cadwalader (1817-44) about a secret trade mission to the Indian Ocean and East Indies, the world’s first published English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionary

Hear and Now is a new podcast that connects the incomparable library, art, and botanical collections at The Huntington with the wider world.

Join Dennis Carr, The Huntington's chief curator of American art, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Christina Forrer, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version."