News
News Release - Botanical Director James P. Folsom to Retire
Tue., Sept. 29, 2020
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that after 36 years of extraordinary leadership, James P. Folsom, the Marge and Sherm Telleen/Marion and Earle Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens, will retire at the end of the year.
Lecture
Confederate Infamy
Wed., Sept. 23, 2020
Robert Bonner, professor of history at Dartmouth College, probes the deep history of the images, words, and ships that cast odium on the slaveholders' rebellion of the 1860s. This lecture is a Rogers Distinguished Fellow's Lecture in Nineteenth-Century American History.
News
News Release - Huntington Acquires Newly Discovered John Singleton Copley Painting Among Other Works That "Bridge the Atlantic"
Wed., Sept. 23, 2020
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a newly discovered painting by John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) depicting celebrated 18th-century British actress Mary Robinson, as well as works by British artists Alice Mary Chambers
History of Science
Solidarity with the Mount Wilson Observatory
Mon., Sept. 21, 2020 | Kevin Durkin
In 1904, more than a half-century before the creation of NASA, George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), a solar astronomer and astrophysicist, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory
Conference
The Early Modern Global Caribbean: Virtual Conference
Fri., Sept. 18, 2020
The Caribbean played a central role in the global transformations that began in the fifteenth century.
Audio
Hear and Now
Wed., Sept. 16, 2020 | George Sanchez
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 - "The Blue Boy” Is Reinstalled After Major Conservation Project
Thu., Sept. 10, 2020
While the Huntington Art Gallery has not yet reopened due to COVID-19, Gainsborough's famous masterpiece is back on the wall, luminous and awaiting visitors
Research
Introducing New Fellows in an Unprecedented Time
Thu., Sept. 10, 2020 | Steve Hindle
In a normal year, nearly 2,000 scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine would be conducting academic research
Video
The Blue Boy Returns
Wed., Sept. 9, 2020
One of the most famous works at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, has been restored and reinstalled in the Thornton Portrait Gallery.
Art
Hidden Within “The Three Witches”
Wed., Sept. 9, 2020 | Christina M. O’Connell
When The Huntington acquired Henry Fuseli's The Three Witches in 2014, I could immediately see clues that there was something to discover beneath its surface
History of The Huntington
Big Creek and the Creek Fire
Tue., Sept. 8, 2020 | William Deverell
The catastrophic Creek Fire, burning out of control in the Sierra Nevada Mountains north of Fresno, is but one of hundreds of fires
Video
Hdoc: Tigers in the Greenhouse
Fri., Sept. 4, 2020
In the summer of 1999, The Huntington was the focus of world-wide attention when it exhibited the first Amorphophallus titanum ever to bloom in California. That first bloom started our cultivation of this strange plant.