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