News
News Release - Huntington and Caltech Launch New Research Institute in the History of Science and Technology
Wed., Feb. 13, 2019
At a time when humanities programs are under intense scrutiny and being slashed from college and university budgets, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and Caltech announced today the launch of a new research institute focused specifically on the history of science and technology.
News
News Release - The Huntington to Add 320-Year-Old Magistrate's House to the Japanese Garden
Tue., Feb. 12, 2019
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it is adding to its renowned Japanese Garden a 320-year-old house from Marugame, Japan.
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Papers of F. Marion Crawford, Popular 19th-Century American Novelist
Thu., Feb. 7, 2019
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the largest trove of writing by American novelist F. Marion Crawford (1854–1909) in existence.
Exhibitions
In Focus: “Celia Paul”
Wed., Feb. 6, 2019 | Lisa Blackburn
Seven paintings by the contemporary British artist Celia Paul (born 1959) will be on view Feb. 9–July 8 in the Huntington Art Gallery.
File under Fascinating
Wed., Jan. 30, 2019 | Sara K. Austin
Did you vow to tidy up in 2019? If the current mania for organizing consultant Marie Kondo is any indication, you're not alone.
Exhibitions
News Release - The Huntington and LA Arts Organization Clockshop Reunite for Contemporary Art Initiative
Thu., Jan. 24, 2019
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens named Los Angeles arts organization Clockshop as its partner for the fourth year of The Huntington's /five initiative.
Lecture
Speech Before Free Speech
Wed., Jan. 23, 2019
Fara Dabhoiwala, professor of history at Princeton University, explores why speech, before the 18th century, was continually monitored and policed in every sphere of life across the Western world; no one believed speech should be free. This program is a Crotty Lecture.
Education
Deep Learning in the Science of Art Conservation
Wed., Jan. 23, 2019 | Amanda Hernandez and Kristin Brisbois, Ph.D.
In October 2018, more than 100 students had the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of art conservation as part of a Deep Learning Day developed by The Huntington's Education staff, focusing on the ongoing "Project Blue Boy" exhibition.
Lecture
Border-Crossing Botanicals: The Curious History of Saffron in Japan
Tue., Jan. 22, 2019
Susan Burns, professor of history at the University of Chicago, explores the incorporation of saffron into Japanese pharmacology, a complex process that involved the rise of natural science and a "productive confusion" that linked saffron with other botanicals.
Botanical
From the Mountains to the Garden
Wed., Jan. 16, 2019 | Nicholas Menzies and Phillip E. Bloom
In just three characters, Terry Yuan's calligraphic Terrace that Invites the Mountain—now carved into a rock in The Huntington's Chinese Garden, Liu Fang Yuan—captures one of the key principles of Chinese garden design
Lecture
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873
Wed., Jan. 16, 2019
Benjamin Madley, associate professor of history at UCLA, discusses the near-annihilation and survival of California's indigenous population under United States rule in this Billington Lecture
News
News Release - Huntington Launches New Partnership with Artist Enrique Martínez Celaya Including Installation of Three Works
Tue., Jan. 15, 2019
Two bronze sculptures and a painting by contemporary Cuban-American artist Enrique Martínez Celaya (b. 1964) will be installed at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens this month.