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News, stories, features, videos and podcasts by The Huntington.

Video

Restoration of The Blue Boy

Fri., March 27, 2020
The restoration of "The Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough is complete. As we await Blue Boy's public unveiling, Christina Nielsen reflects on the project.
Library

California Comes Alive

Wed., March 25, 2020 | Lorraine Perrotta
"We must first possess the region that we live in, first in our minds, to say, 'I'm from here.'" So states Luis Valdez, author of the play Zoot Suit
Podcast

The Collections Podcast

Mon., March 23, 2020
Welcome to The Collections, a podcast produced by The Huntington, hosted by Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence.
Lectures

Why it Matters to Drew Faust

Wed., March 11, 2020 | Linda Chiavaroli
For the second event in The Huntington's Centennial Celebration series "Why It Matters," Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence welcomed Drew Gilpin Faust
Lecture

California and the Birth of the Modern Garden

Mon., March 9, 2020
Wade Graham, author of American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards, What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are, explores the birth and career of the modern garden in California between 1920 and the 1960s.
Lecture

President's Series: Parable of the Sower, A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Thu., March 5, 2020
Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower.
History of The Huntington

First Readers at The Huntington

Wed., March 4, 2020 | Clay Stalls
The Huntington's readers are at the heart of the Library's mission, and a historically important letter in The Huntington's institutional archives offers evidence
Conference

“Unscholarly” Gardens: Rethinking the Gardens of China

Sat., Feb. 29, 2020
The image of a "Chinese garden" that most often comes to mind is that of the white-walled, gray-tiled gardens built by scholar-officials and merchants in the city of Suzhou during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
Exhibitions

News Release - Conservation of The Blue Boy Completed

Thu., Feb. 27, 2020
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that the extensive 18-month initiative to analyze, conserve, and restore The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is complete
Lecture

Why It Matters: Drew Gilpin Faust and Karen R. Lawrence

Thu., Feb. 27, 2020
Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence speaks with Drew Gilpin Faust, former president of Harvard and Civil War scholar, about the importance of the humanities.
Lecture

Founders' Day Lecture: Making History

Thu., Feb. 27, 2020
Civil War scholar and former Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust explores the ways The Huntington's collections have served as a critical resource for our understanding of the Civil War.
News

News Release - Huntington Receives $5 Million Transformational Grant for Education and Outreach from the Rose Hills Foundation

Wed., Feb. 26, 2020
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has been awarded a $5 million grant over four years from The Rose Hills Foundation, targeted at one of The Huntington's strategic goals