Lecture
GardenLust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens
Wed., Dec. 12, 2018
Award-winning horticulturist Chris Woods describes the most arresting features in public parks, botanic gardens, and private estates in locations ranging from New Delhi and Dubai to Chile and Australia from his book GardenLust.
Conference
Moving Landscapes: Gardens and Gardening in the Transatlantic World, 1670–1830
Fri., Dec. 7, 2018
Focusing on the imagination and creation of gardens in the disparate geographies of 18th-century Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, this conference explores transatlantic ideas of nation, location, and self, and asks how the experience of gardens might be shared across nations, oceans, and
Conferences
Moving Landscapes
Thu., Dec. 6, 2018 | Stephen Bending and Jennifer Milam
What do we mean by an "English," a "French," or an "American" garden? What are the differences between them in the early modern transatlantic world, and what might they—or those who experience them—still share?
Exhibitions
News Release - Exhibition on Contemporary British Artist Celia Paul to Come to The Huntington
Tue., Dec. 4, 2018
Seven paintings by contemporary British artist Celia Paul (born 1959) will be on view Feb. 9 to July 8, 2019, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The eponymously titled exhibition "Celia Paul," is curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als
Library
The Prayer Book of Mary, Queen of Scots
Mon., Dec. 3, 2018 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.
The family feud between England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) and her cousin, the Scottish Queen Mary (1542–1587)—not "Bloody" Mary, Elizabeth's half-sister—has fascinated people since the 16th century.
Art
Resplendent Reunion
Thu., Nov. 29, 2018 | Thea Page
Something rare and golden will be unveiled in the Huntington Art Gallery this weekend. Beginning Dec. 1, four tempera-with-gold-leaf panels from an altarpiece by Florentine Renaissance master Cosimo Rosselli (1439–1507) can be seen reunited on the same wall, hung in a beautiful new display after more than 200 years of...
Exhibitions
Rituals of Labor and Engagement
Wed., Nov. 21, 2018 | Carribean Fragoza
When push comes to shove, there are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who will either run away from a fire or a fist fight, and the kind who will run toward it to get a closer look.
Conference
A History of the Medical Book
Fri., Nov. 16, 2018
This conference brings together a range of perspectives on medical texts that emphasize their lives as books, bringing together the disciplines of the history of medicine and of book history.
Library
The Curious Afterlives of Ambroise Paré
Wed., Nov. 14, 2018 | Seth LeJacq
The French surgeon Ambroise Paré occupies a curious place in medical history. He is a towering figure in Renaissance medicine and the history of surgery, and yet relatively unknown, especially next to prominent contemporaries like the anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) or the nonconformist thinker Paracelsus (d. 1541).
Lecture
Government and Family Life: The Unintended Consequences of the English Poor Relief System, 1660–1780
Wed., Nov. 14, 2018
Naomi Tadmor, professor of history at the University of Lancaster and the Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, discusses the sophisticated system of social welfare developed in 17th- and 18th-century England aimed to assist the poor and its impact on local government
Lecture
New Explorations in Tea History: Putting Women and Children First
Tue., Nov. 13, 2018
Rebecca Corbett, Japanese studies librarian at USC, explores aspects of tea culture in Japan's Edo period (1603–1868) and its use in children's education. Corbett's current project focuses on the Buddhist nun and artist Tagami Kikusha (1753–1826) and the transmission of her work in modern Japan.
Lecture
A Rare Book Rogue in Texas
Thu., Nov. 8, 2018
Michael Vinson, author and proprietor of Michael Vinson Americana, shares the tale of John Holmes Jenkins III (1940–1989), a Texas antiquarian bookseller, publisher, historian, and gambler who, in 1971, helped the FBI recover a valuable set of original colored engravings of Audubon's The Birds of