Conferences
“This reading of Books is a pernicious thing”
Tue., April 13, 2021 | Elaine Hob
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
Video
Hdoc: Breaking News First Interrupts Television in 1949 (Los Angeles, CA)
Thu., April 8, 2021
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.
Video
Lunchtime Art Talk on Kandis Williams
Wed., April 7, 2021
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."
Lecture
Capturing Bestiarium: The Art and Science of Digitization
Wed., April 7, 2021
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.
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Letters of Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi, Pioneer of Long-Distance Wireless Telegraphy and Radio
Tue., April 6, 2021
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
Video
Lunchtime Art Talk on Christina Forrer
Wed., March 31, 2021
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."
Podcast
Hear and Now at The Huntington
Wed., March 31, 2021
Hear and Now is a new podcast that connects the incomparable library, art, and botanical collections at The Huntington with the wider world.
News
News Release - Nicole Cavender Appointed Director of Botanical Gardens at The Huntington
Tue., March 30, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today the appointment of Nicole Cavender as the Telleen/Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens.
Video
Lunchtime Art Talk on Reynaldo Rivera
Wed., March 24, 2021
Join Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Reynaldo Rivera, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version."
News
News Release - Huntington to Reopen Key Museum Galleries After More Than One Year of Closure
Thu., March 18, 2021
On April 17, the special exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version" will debut, and the first floor of the Huntington Art Gallery will reopenLimited occupancy and other protocols in place
Lecture
Two Sides of the Pacific: Japan and the Architecture of Greene & Greene
Thu., March 18, 2021
Edward R. Bosley, Executive Director of The Gamble House, reveals the links between the architecture of Greene & Greene and their appreciation for Japanese architecture and design.
Kathy Fiscus and the Johnson Well
Wed., March 17, 2021 | William Deverell
William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and professor of history at USC, recently published Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation (Angel City Press, 2021), in which he tells the story of a groundbreaking live TV news broadcast of a rescue attempt in...