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A line of handsome fairy couples dance gaily through sheaths of harvested wheat.

Nearly a year after breaking ground on the final phase of its renowned Chinese Garden, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that the project is on track for completion in May 2020.

Timed to coincide with the grand opening in May 2020 of the final phase of its Chinese Garden, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will present an exhibition of Chinese calligraphy as the inaugural installation in the garden's new art gallery.

The Huntington's Centennial Celebration kicks off on Sept. 5, 2019, with a special event for press and Southern California civic, higher education, and cultural leaders—a number of whose institutions are also celebrating significant anniversaries.

The Huntington has taken a lead role in recent years in the cutting-edge field of plant cryopreservation

Architect Marc Appleton, author of "Ranches: Home on the Range in California", discusses the history of cattle ranching in California.

Early modern readers left their marks on the printed page in many ways: They wrote annotations or drew manicules

A video work by acclaimed Los Angeles artist Carolina Caycedo that reconceptualizes several iconic Huntington spaces through Afro-Latinx and indigenous spiritual practices and dance will go on view Aug. 17, 2019, through Feb. 10, 2020

The Huntington Library is one of the world's renowned independent research libraries, housing some 11 million items that span the 11th to 21st centuries.

Bees are no strangers to The Huntington. There are numerous hives in trees on the property that cause few problems

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) painted his evocative oil sketch Sphinx and Chimaera before 1921 to serve as a compositional guide for a much larger mural

An art installation unlike any The Huntington has displayed before is now on view in the Chinese Garden