Art
The North Vista’s Italian Sculptures
Wed., Feb. 3, 2021 | Anna Engstrom and Sabina Zonno
The Huntington recently released a new, comprehensive audio tour about its outdoor sculpture collection, which includes examples from the 16th to the 21st century.
Video
Lunchtime Art Talk on Jill Mulleady
Wed., Feb. 3, 2021
Join Aram Moshayedi, Robert Soros Curator at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Jill Mulleady, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version." The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.
Lecture
Collecting Continuums: What Now
Wed., Jan. 27, 2021
Join Huntington Library curators and members of the trade, library, and collecting communities for a panel discussion on individual and institutional collecting today.
Video
Lunchtime Art Talk on Katja Seib
Wed., Jan. 27, 2021
Join Nika Chilewich, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Katja Seib, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A. 2020: a version." The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.
Art
The Burning of the Old South Church
Wed., Jan. 27, 2021 | Dennis Carr
Rising class divisions. Economic uncertainty. Anti-immigrant fervor. It was July 6, 1854.
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Important Collection of Telegraph History Papers from the Civil War and Postwar Era
Tue., Jan. 26, 2021
In a move that deepens its collections in the history of science and technology as well as its American Civil War holdings, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired the personal papers of Thomas T. Eckert (1825–1910)
News
News Release - The Huntington to Renovate and Expand Its Historic Tea Room
Thu., Jan. 21, 2021
The project will restore the front of the original 1911 building and create a new pavilion opening onto the Shakespeare Garden
Lecture
Unmoored Gardens: Shifting Cultural Spaces in Late Imperial China
Thu., Jan. 21, 2021
Dr. Einor Cervone, the Mozhai Foundation Curatorial Fellow in the department of Chinese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), explores the unlikely links between Ming dynasty (1368–1644) garden culture and waterborne culture.
History of The Huntington
Artificial Lives
Wed., Jan. 20, 2021 | Sherryl Vint and Peter Boxall
The notion of the artificial is necessarily understood in concert with the linked notion of the natural and thus the boundary between what is found and what is made.
News
News Release - The Huntington Names Winner of Inaugural Shapiro Book Prize
Thu., Jan. 14, 2021
The biennial award of $10,000 for outstanding first monograph in American history and culture goes to Benjamin Francis-Fallon for The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History
Video
Lunchtime Art Talk on Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
Wed., Jan. 13, 2021
Join Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition "Made in L.A.
Lecture
Cataloging in the Time of COVID
Wed., Jan. 13, 2021
Cataloging in the Time of COVID: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How The Huntington's American History Materials Are Made Accessible by Archival Processing