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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
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
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.
News

News Release - Expanded Chinese Garden at The Huntington to Open Oct. 9

Thu., Sept. 3, 2020
After a nearly five-month postponement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will open the outdoor areas of the highly anticipated expansion of its renowned Chinese Garden on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020
Education

Museum Education Heads Back to School

Wed., Sept. 2, 2020 | Lisa Blackburn
Notebook paper, No. 2 pencils, colorful new backpacks. Hand sanitizer? Some back-to-school essentials never change, but the COVID-19 pandemic has turned an annual rite on its ear.
Lecture

Curatorial Dialogues: Black Ship Scrolls and Mary Queen of Scots’ Prayer Book

Tue., Sept. 1, 2020
Two remarkable—and remarkably different—manuscripts from the Library's collections are the focus of this presentation and conversation with Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections, and Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval Manuscripts and British History.
Lecture

President's Series: Inspired by Octavia E. Butler - A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: Lynell George in conversation with William Deverell and Karla Nielsen

Wed., Aug. 26, 2020
Writer Lynell George discusses her forthcoming book, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E.
Lecture

From Parchment to Pixel: Conservation and Digitization of Illuminated Manuscripts

Wed., Aug. 19, 2020
Three panelists follow one of The Huntington's most studied manuscripts as it travels from curator to conservator to digitization team, who all work together to transform a 16th-century manuscript into a 21st-century digital tool.
News

News Release - As Part of Its Centennial Celebration, The Huntington Seeds a New Fellowship in Honor of Octavia E. Butler

Wed., Aug. 19, 2020
As part of its Centennial Celebration, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has announced the creation of a one-year fellowship for the study of Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006)